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Let us celebrate the beauty of Nature – the heart of Mother Earth. Let us sing the pure and simple power of life and celebrate its plants, animals, colours, movements and wonders. Let us enjoy the essence of things and experience the wondrous Universe that sings through our hearts. Let us become aware of the …
The manipulative ego mind will want you to be distracted as you sit in meditation. When it does this for just a few minutes each time it is okay, but after three minutes, the mind will usually find something else to focus on because the mind is threatened by stillness. This is because on some …
It's always good to relax the body, and to create an intention to relax. Even if there is stress in the body, even if there is tension in the body, even if the shoulders are aching a little bit, there's tension there. Even if the jaws are a little bit tight, stressed, there's tension there. …
What are you avoiding? What energy are you holding back? What are you actually doing? All of these questions help you to understand that fear in itself is not only a waste of time, but it is not helping you to move forward and address the situation you are experiencing, in a way where transformation …
Self-judgement is a universal human experience. It's not that you need to judge yourself or have self-judgement, just know that this is a very powerful aspect of ourselves just like fear is inbuilt into our evolution, self-judgement is a universal human experience that can be useful. However, when it's used in the way where self-judgement …
Meditation is about focusing your attention on the good things, the beautiful things, the simple things, so that you create a state of gratitude within. You see, if your mind gets caught in other thoughts, the most beneficial thing to do is to keep coming back to that inner strength, that inner clarity, that inner …
It sounds quite obvious and quite simple to relax the body, but in the end, if we scan our bodies, we are likely to discover that we are not really that relaxed. We may think we are relaxed, but actually we're not. In meditation, if you are truly meditating, then the relaxation response is part …
Meditation is a state of consciousness that doesn't need the mundane perception to sabotage the flow that happens when you are in a deep state of consciousness. What meditation needs is mindful attention, being an awareness that happens quite naturally when you let go of the mundane, or when you let go of the stress …
Every new beginning requires us to look at and reassess everything we have gone through. January 2020 will be an incredibly powerful month. If 2019 was already powerful for you, do not worry, this year we will be connecting to the subconscious and learning what is really going on, and whatever we choose to do …
Whenever meditation was taught in the past, there were certain levels, and rituals that celebrated those levels, of understanding meditation that were vital as part of the initiation into what meditation really means. This doesn't always come naturally, because what does come naturally is a mind that is easily distracted by external situations than anything …