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A wonderful thing about yoga workouts and poses is that they work on you at many different levels at once. Not only are they great for your physical dimension, but are also often designed to work on your emotional or mental dimensions as well.
You were born to meditate. I cannot impress enough upon you how important meditation is, if you wish to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. By meditation here I don’t mean just the formal time you spend devoted to this practice, but I mean the constant vigilance and witnessing of the mind and emotions, that a true meditation practice demands.
This dedication to a meditative life will bring you riches far beyond any that the material world can offer. This treasure is available to you, if you are willing to embrace a life long meditation practice. But along with such unworldly blessings, there are also many tangible benefits of meditation. These benefits include health and other everyday benefits, and are being constantly validated by scientists in the field today.
In part 1 of this series on Learning How to Sleep and how to use utilize sleep to accelerate one’s spiritual growth, we discussed the importance of complete physical and mental relaxation before sleep and also finding the flame of divine aspiration and riding that into sleep.
In this second part we will delve further into the mysteries of sleep and share more sleep training tips from the Mother. Specifically we will focus on how to penetrate deep into consciousness to the point of complete stillness during sleep and experience the state of Satchitananda (Bliss, Being and Consciousness). Satchitananada is synonymous to Enlightenment of Samadhi.
Sleep and the nighttime are a very important and interesting part of spiritual evolution and in this two part series I am going to go into some of the more fascinating and unusual suggestions of how to get the most out of sleep time. This series will be helpful to both, those who are suffering from insomnia or disturbed sleep and those who are interested in maximizing spiritual growth during sleep time.
From time to time I come across people who have overcome remarkable challenges in life and thus are a great inspiration to us all. Ray, a recent graduate from my Yoga Teacher’s Training and Certification Program, is one such shinning example. He overcame the incredible difficulties posed by brain cancer and used a wide variety of holistic treatments to help him with his unlikely recovery.
Below is his story of beating a prognosis of no recovery possible, wowing doctors, vanquishing cancer, mastering yoga and finding enlightenment during this process. I hope it inspires you to overcome your challenges and difficulties as well.
Yoga breathing exercises bestow many benefits, including energy, tranquility, clarity, evolution, etc, but another great benefit of some of the techniques is their ability to detox and cleanse the body. Of the breathing exercises which do promote detoxificaiton, the one I will provide a video for in this article, is quite possibly the best of them all. It is called Panting Breath of Fire and is a vairation of Lion Yoga Pose.
You will find full detail of this unusual yoga pose in the article, Cleanse and Detox Your Body with Powerful Yoga, so head over to that article for all the details of this technique.
Eating fruits and vegetables are good for you, there is no denying that and regardless of whether you are vegetarian or non-vegetarian the more fruits and vegetables you can include in your diet the healthier you will be and the longer you will live. There is also of course the desire of many to be pure vegetarians for a variety of other reasons and there are plenty of discussions on the web regarding this debate, so that is not what I am going to discuss in this article. In this article I am going to give you tips on how to go from being a meat eater to a vegetarian, if that is indeed a change you have decided to make.
To boost your energy levels, both short term and long term, there is almost no better method than the regular practice of yogic breathing exercises (pranayamas). These exercises have been developed and honed over thousands of years to bestow their powerful benefits, so if you are looking for more vitality and energy, I strongly recommend establishing a consistent, daily pranayama practice.
Life on earth is the perfect University for Enlightenment (read The Magical Gate to the Best School for Enlightenment), and to help us realize the perfection of the moment and our perfect, divine nature, life often has to use pain and suffering as a tool. This is simply because it is so easy to go through life on autopilot, asleep to the reality of the moment, that pain is needed to wake us up. Even those who have great passion for the Truth, are sometimes in need of shock therapy to bring them back on the path when they stray.
A Kundalini Yoga class with my teacher, Ravi Singh, was almost never complete unless we had done our core power yoga exercises. Over the course of my training I realized the many benefits of developing this center and later, once I began teaching yoga myself, I too ensured to include some abdominal exercises in every class.
