Meditation & Breathwork
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Meditation: the mysterious origins of the world’s most popular ancient practice
Meditation is as common today as aerobics, with millions of people using it for stress release, peak performance and spiritual enlightenment. Even CEOs and Hollywood celebrities are now using it to master themselves and gain an untouchable advantage!
Could This Common Daily Habit Be The Unlikely Key To World Peace?
Across the planet, hundreds of millions do it every day. Scientists, spiritual leaders and Hollywood celebrities publicly endorse it. And countless studies have proven its benefits – from physical healing to mental and emotional wellbeing to amplified creativity, focus and intuition.
Ancient Meditation Technique Boosts Brain Performance
This article first appeared in wired.co.uk and is written by Liat Clark Different types of meditation elicit different types of physiological response, and can vastly improve cognitive skills.
Meditation Changes Your DNA. Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing…
You wouldn’t be surprised if we told you meditation is good for you. With the hundreds of studies showing how it decreases stress, helps to stay calm, allows for mental clarity and focus, aids in heart disease prevention, rewires your brain chemistry and just makes you feel good…it’s nothing new.
Meditation Produces Massive Changes To Gray Matter And Astounds Scientists
The most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University were seriously astonished when they saw the results of a recent 8 week program of mindfulness meditation.
Last Living Mermaids Close To Extinction
Long ago, in the 17th century, there was a group of “sea women”, the haenyeo, who were female divers in the Korean province of Jeju. It was a time when many men went to sea to fish or row warships, and offshore diving largely became women’s work.
Aetna CEO Offers Meditation And Yoga For Success
Mr. Mark T. Bertolini runs Aetna, one of America’s 100 largest companies by revenue.
5 Easy Morning Rituals For Peace and Presence
How you start your morning can change the course of your whole day. When you end up being in a funk, it could very well stem from a negative thought you had when you woke up.
Craniosacral Therapy: What If Feeling Good Could Be Better?
Words by: Tanya Drayton Imagine… If you already feel pretty darn good and get a lot done, what could you do if you felt even better? How much more could you get done, or better yet, how much would the quality of your work and play output increase and how far? How fast?
5 Ways To Find Happiness in Stillness
Stillness can be scary for some of us. It’s like we are all constantly on the go. There are so many competing demands on our attention and the list seems to get longer by the day. Being “still” can feel impossible, let alone finding a moment in that. So then how can we find happiness in stillness?
His Pineal Gland Blew His Mind…Literally.
It seems that this little pine coned shaped gland located in the center of your brain is a popular organ these days. Spiritual mentors and meditation seekers call it the third eye, and refer to it as an antennae to the non-physical realm.
Heart Intelligence Exercise
AWAKEN YOUR BODY’S GREATEST SOURCE OF INTELLIGENCE WITH THIS HEART-CENTERED MEDITATION EXERCISE. The following Heart Intelligence Meditation Exercise is designed to expand your electromagnetic field and thrust you into a powerful state of flow.
What Does This 5,000 Year Old Practice Have in Common with Disco Balls?
Many of you are probably already familiar with yoga. For those who are not, yoga is a collection of practices that involve both mental and physical training to provide balance in life.
This Ancient Technique Will Change the Way You Breathe Forever
Oxygen. It is our life force, our source of survival. Without oxygen, life on planet Earth would cease to exist. Breathing is an involuntary function that occurs in our bodies in order to fill our lungs oxygen and empty out carbon dioxide.
A 4 Year Old Taps Her Third Chakra Into Alignment To Get Rid of Anger
Author: Puja Shah “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” –Bhagavad Gita Yoga. The union of mind, body and soul. A practice for strengthening abs, finding peace of mind and nurturing the soul through movement, breath-work and meditation.
A Genetically Developed Instinct: Feeling Positive Energy
Ancient Chinese feng shui has taken over the interior design industry these past few years and has become a trend for new homeowners when clearing their space of negative energy. Feng shui, however, is no new trend. It was developed over 3,000 years ago in China.
RESOLVING TO GO ALL-IN: Being Fully Authentic In 2014
So much is made about being “real”. J.Lo even sang a catchy pop song about it way back when. What does this actually mean? Aside from sleep and meditation, are we not in a perpetual state of reality? Should we pinch ourselves occasionally just to be sure?
Every Now and Zen Do These 6 Things to Calm the Storm.
In the year 2014, humanity finds itself still struggling to get rid of the lifestyle it has created and imposed on its members. A fast paced life ridden with immorality, a life of “faster and bigger”, of “more and never enough” tends to swallow us up.
The Most Effective Stress Reducer Ever Invented For Your Heart
Author: Puja Shah If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.” -BKS Iyenger The area where your arm attaches to your chest meets and meets your heart is quite often the area we tend to guard and close off the most. Notice how you are sitting as you read this.
Who’s Your Guru? Five Tips On Finding The All Knowing
Author: Puja Shah Nowadays, everyone has a guru..a mentor…a spiritual leader. Whatever you call him or her, it seems like it’s the “in thing” to be seeking. You can be at Whole Foods and overhear the person in front of you tell the cashier how the dates she is buying are for a ceremony for her guru.
Superhuman Longevity: The Anti-Aging Secrets Of A 256-Year-Old Man
Author: Puja Shah Some of us would consider ourselves incredibly lucky to reach the age of 80 and still be alive, let alone in good health. If so, Li Ching Yuen may have been the luckiest man to ever live, as he was reported to be 256 years of age at the time of his death in 1933.
The Seattle Seahawks Won The Superbowl. Is This 5,000-Year-Old Exercise The Reason?
Author: Puja Shah espn.com Okay, so you don’t even need to care about football to know this is a huge step forward for the human potential movement… See, the Seattle Seahawks just won the 2014 U.S. Superbowl.
Sleep Paralysis: Horror Movie Scenario or Secret Key to Enlightenment?
You’re fully conscious, but you can’t move a muscle. You hear loud footsteps all around you and see a dark presence approaching you, but there’s nothing you can do about it. No, this isn’t the opening scene of a horror movie; it’s something that many people across the globe have experienced.
Modern Science Finally Validates One Of The World’s Greatest Cure-Alls
There’s something going on inside your body… Something that no MRI or x-ray can detect. But it’s powerful enough to change your life. Don’t worry, it’s not some kind of crazy disease that’s taking over the world. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.