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Last week we ran the survey, What Are Your Major Obstacles to a Daily Meditation and Yoga Practice? And boy did the results come in fast and furious. There was a clear winner and many strong contenders as well. In the table below you can see the results and following that I address these problems and propose solutions to help you overcome them as well.
Dreams are dreams and Spiritual Enlightenment Experiences which often take place in the silence of the night, sometimes co-mingle with dreams, but are certainly real. As the website has grown one of the great benefits for me personally is the fascinating stories and experiences I get to read from spiritual aspirants globally. These personal tales of transcendent experiences validate much of what is found in the spiritual texts, but more than anything else they inspire me to further deepen and expand my own practice. I often share these testimonials with you and will do so again in the next few days, but today I want to explore the phenomenon of spiritual experiences that take place deep in the night and which often intermingle with our dreams.
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Blood pressure can be influenced a great deal by many natural methods and therapies. One such natural way to combat high blood pressure is by the practice of certain Yoga Breathing Exercises (Pranayamas). Of the many yoga breathing exercises the ones that are calming and cooling in nature are good for lowering blood pressure, and of those, Seetkari Pranayama is one of the best.
It has been some time since we ran a survey here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga and since it is always valuable to learn from each other, I thought it was time to run another interesting survey today. These surveys not just allow us to discuss important aspects of yoga and meditation practice, but they give us insight into the real practices of our fellow yogis and meditators, and allow us to understand real life challenges we all face on the path to Enlightenment.
In the article, How to Raise Enlightened Children, I discussed many important aspects of how to be a good parent. The advice I suggested included being ego free, attentive, calm and image-less as a parent when dealing with your children. Today, I am going to provide some more parenting help, which is not of the ordinary kind. The everyday advise of positive parenting, parenting styles, good parenting, etc, is all within the framework of "society" and seeing the mess the world is in, I think it is time to introduce the wiser, but certainly more controversial, approaches suggested by the enlightened masters.
I have recently received a few emails regarding the recent sex scandal involving Swami Nithyananda, asking for my thoughts on this matter and I will present those in this article. For those who are not familiar with this sex scandal, essentially Paramhamsa Nithyananda, a Guru who had claimed to be celibate and who had renounced worldly pleasures, was recently caught on video in some very compromising sexual positions with two (or same) women on separate occasions. His devotees are claiming fraud and conspiracy, but the evidence so far is looking very damning. I am not claiming one way or the other, but think this is a good opportunity to discuss some of the issues related to spiritual gurus, priests, swamis and sexual scandals.
Advaita Vedanta is the great spiritual science of non-dualism. Many of the profound spiritual teachers that are helping the world transcend the ordinary dualistic mind come from this rich Hindu tradition. Advaita Vedanta is essentially the teaching that the underlying Truth is complete Oneness and that there is no separate individual self or entity. Realizing the non-dual nature of Reality and experiencing the Truth of Oneness brings transcendence, awakening and Self-Realization.
I am very happy to report the excellent response and ongoing success of the Mastery of Meditation Teacher’s Training and Certification Program, that went live earlier this year. Since it’s inception there have been some important updates to this program and I would like to share those with you today. In addition, I want to congratulate the new graduates, who are now fully Certified Meditation Teachers and Instructors and I would like to share some thoughts on what is yet to come, with regard to this course.
Some Testimonial Regarding the Meditation Certification Program:
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Welcome to the Free Online Yoga and Meditation programs here at Mastery of Meditation and Yoga. All the material needed for this Free Weight Loss Yoga Program is available via the links on this post and you can start anytime you wish. For more information on the free online classes, please read the Free Online Yoga and Meditation Classes page.
Each month we have been practicing together a particular yoga move, pranayama technique and meditation, in order to enhance our skills and learn from each other. It is time now for the yoga posture for March, as well as the pranayama and meditation for this month. These moves and techniques will concentrate on helping us detox our entire body and mind.
