Tips for Meditation

Overcoming Obstacles of Meditation

In the article, Meditation Help and 5 New Tips for Beginners,  I gave an important list of meditation tips to help you to establish a strong, daily meditation practice.  Today, there are few more meditation tips I would like to pass along to you and these are specifically with regard to dealing with sleepiness during meditation.

Undoubtedly the best time to meditate is early in the morning, but unfortunately this is also the time when we are most prone to feel sleepy during our meditation session.  Recently, I have received several emails regarding this very issue, so I thought it would benefit everyone to share some tips regarding how to deal with this challenge.

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Free Exercise Tips

Fitness and Exercise Tips

Although yoga exercises can help form a great fitness routine, there are other forms of exercise as well which you might be interested in incorporating into you regiment, and to enhance such fitness programs there are many great tips you can get from yoga.  In this article I will give you 3 free tips from yoga to make your exercise and fitness routine better.

These 3 tips are helpful regardless or what kind of exercise and fitness routine you have.  Whether it’s aerobic activity, resistance training, sports, martial arts, dance or any other type of exercise, I think the following tips will prove to be very useful to you.

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Free Meditation

Online Meditation Classes

Free Online Advanced Meditation Class – Course #402

Recently there has been a big jump in participation in the free online meditation and yoga classes that are offered here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.  This is of course wonderful, as the primary mission of this website is to help teach meditation and yoga to all who are interested, and not allow money to become a factor in one’s spiritual and personal growth.  So if you have been enjoying and gaining from the free online classes and programs, please help spread the word so that even more people can participate and benefit .

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Yoga Strength Exercises

Free Lower Back Yoga Poses

Of all the different types of fitness exercises, yoga postures and poses are perhaps the best for helping to strengthen the back and help cure back problems and back pain.  In a future article, I am going to summarize for you, all the great yoga exercises for helping you get your back strong and healthy, but in this article today I am going to present you with a fantastic yoga pose, which is perhaps the best posture for targeting the back and lower back muscles.  It is called Yoga Bridge Pose and it will become a part of the Free Yoga Postures E-book hosted here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.

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Do Yoga for a Happy Life

Yoga and Brain Studies

Scientists today are saying what yogis have been proclaiming for many thousands of years, if you want to be happy, then do yoga.  The confirmation of this wonderful benefit of doing yoga comes from recent research being done at the School of Medicine at Boston University.

Brain researchers there measured the amount of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric) levels in the brain of participants doing yoga 3 times a week for 1 hour, versus levels in participants doing other equivalent exercises for the same amount of time.  The study ran for 12 weeks and concluded elevated and rising levels of GABA in those doing yoga as compared to the other group.  So what does that mean?

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Famous Yoga Workouts

Body by Yoga

Yoga Set for Everyday Practice – Online Course #108

Welcome to the Free Online Yoga and Meditation Programs here at Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.  All the material needed for this Daily Yoga Workout for Yogic Body 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. 

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Altered State of Consciousness

Finding Bliss

In the article Interpreting Spiritual Dreams I discussed how nighttime is a rich opportunity to experience states of higher consciousness and the accompanying bliss these state invariably induce.  Below I share with you my recent experience with supreme consciousness and sheer bliss. 

Higher Consciousness and Divine Bliss – Anmol’s Journal 

September 11, 2010

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Bhagavat Gita Translation and Summaries

Sri Krishna Teachings

The Bhagavad Gita are the essential teachings of Sri Krishna.  These teachings were imparted by Krishna to the warrior prince Arjuna on the battlefield, when Arjuna’s resolve was shaken upon seeing his teachers, relatives, friends and other loved ones in the opposing army.  This entire epic story is called the Mahabharata and although the story is filled with a great deal of wisdom and life lessons, the most important teachings are from this dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, which are captured in the Bhagavad Gita.

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Fitness and Yoga

Exercises for Nerve Strength

Real fitness, as per Yoga, is not just physical strength and endurance, but is actually nerve strength and pranic (life-force/chi) capacity.  In other words, how strong your nervous system is, how much current (Kundalini) can it handle and how well it holds up under stress, is how yoga measures your level of fitness and conditioning.

So for the month of September, let us develop this key aspect of our being, so we can proclaim ourselves to be yoga fit.  To do this, you will find below an excellent hatha yoga pose known to help develop nerve strength and an excellent yoga breathing exercise to expand your pranic capacity and build your entire nervous system.

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Morning Yoga Stretches

Surya Namaskar Yoga Illustrations

Morning is undoubtedly one the best times to practice yoga and the perfect morning yoga set is Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation, as it incorporates some excellent poses to help stretch the entire body.  Surya Namaskar should probably have been the very first article on this blog, instead of now four years later, but hey, better late than never .

Surya Namaskar is a set where you flow from one yoga posture to another.  This style is called Vinyasa or Flow Yoga and it is a wonderful way to practice yoga.  Flowing gracefully from pose to pose, when done with full awareness and attention, allows you to extract the calming and harmonizing aspects of yoga, in addition to it’s well known physical benefits.

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