HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY & WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST FOR 2009!!!!!!

Mastery of Meditation & Yoga now has a worldwide audience and readers span all continents and come from all corners of our beautiful planet. What is interesting about humanity is that regardless of where we live and what culture we belong to, we all share very similar problems, difficulties, desires and goals. This is actually a wonderful fact to contemplate and meditate on, as doing so would lead you to understand the concept of sharing a common human mind and would open the door to compassion and sensitivity, as you realize that basically we are one people.

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Visualization Technique

How to Manifest Your Dreams & Desires

As we are about to ring in the new year, for many it is time to evaluate their life and make resolutions to help bring about positive change.  This is a very healthy process and, if done correctly, can be instrumental in helping you uplift your life and bring about the changes you desire and dream about.

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Benefits of Meditation for Young People

Benefits of Meditation for Students

Have kids in school?  Specially kids in high school?  Are you a student in school, high school or college and wondering if meditation will benefit you?  Well wonder no longer, meditation is absolutely fantastic for young people and in this article I want to discuss some very interesting research that was conducted on this very topic; benefits of meditation for young people and students.

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Effort in Zen Meditation Practice

Zen Teachings of Effortless Effort

Zen Meditation is without a doubt one of the greatest tools for enlightenment and Self-realization.  This meditation technique is simple in it’s design, watch your breath being it’s core requirement, but fully appreciating Zen Meditation and Zen teachings requires a vast and open mind.

One aspect of Zen meditation or Zen teachings that often lead to confusion is the idea of effortless effort, or the role of effort in one’s spiritual practice and meditation practice.  In the Zen bible , Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, master Shunryu Suzuki explains how one should approach effort within the context of Zen Meditation.  Here is that excerpt…

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Kundalini Yoga Exercise for Flexibility

Yoga Pose to Help Reproduction & Digestion

Kundalini Yoga’s Modified Wheel Pose is certainly an exercise worth including as part of your daily yoga routine.  It is an integral part of mine.  This exercise is called Kandhar Asana in Hatha Yoga and also goes by a few other names in various yoga circles.  Since it is often used as a modification to Wheel Pose (see Advanced Yoga Technique for Total Body Workout), and offers many of that position’s benefits without the same degree of difficulty, I find the name Modified Wheel Pose most suitable for it.

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Meditation, Yoga & Spiritual Growth Articles

Meditation, Yoga & Personal Development Carnival

Welcome to the 24th edition of the Meditation, Yoga and Personal Development carnival.  This is a great edition, with a ton of great articles.  There is lots of stuff on how to meditation, create and improve your yoga practice, sex, diet & weight-loss, law of attraction, and much much more.

For my fellow active stumblers if you are interested in networking on Stumble Upon, please go ahead and reach out to me.  My stumble upon id is http://anmolmehta.stumbleupon.com.

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Tips to Discover Your Passion in Life

Tips to Living Your True Passion

A few weeks ago I launched the survey "Are You Living Your Passion in Life?", to find out just how many of us are living in such a truly blessed way.  Let me say this is one of the greatest challenges in life; discovering what you really love to do, and then finding a way of aligning your life with it.  Here are results of this intriguing survey and below that are some tips and ideas to help you do this.

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Spiritual Short Story

Zen Story

Is reincarnation true?  How about an afterlife?  Karmic Laws?  Now, that absolutely must exist.  Heated debates and discussions swirl around these and other such fascinating questions, but what are the answers?  Well let’s head over to Nowind Monastery and see if Master Blumise can help shed some light on these intriguing questions.

Zen Story - The Secrets of the Universe

Part 1:  Totonaka the Fanatic

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Ayurvedic Treatment for Cold & Flu

Yoga Tips for Cold & Flu

The free November Mastery of Meditation newsletter included these useful Ayurvedic and Yogic tips for battling the common cold and flu, which I think is worth sharing with all of you given many of us are smack in the middle of a rough winter season.  If you would like to sign up for the Meditation newsletter, just enter your email at the top left corner of the page.

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