Transcendental Meditation

How to Relieve Stress With Mindfulness Are you sometimes stressed? Worrying about trivial things? Anxious about any outcomes? Feeling uptight at home or at work? Restless, sleepless, fatigued? Is your mind chattering too much? Do you know how to truly relax and find inner peace? If you are like 100 million Americans that according to surveys are stressed daily or weekly, stress is an issue that can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Occasional stress can be a good thing, but it…

guidelines. Part of the story includes making sure the client is autonomous. Whats the difference between prayer and meditation? I am always open to prayer. I sometimes will ask if prayer is needed within session. Personally I am uncomfortable with (and scripturally bound not to) praying to a deity other than my own. I am, however, open to practices of self rejuvenation such as meditation or yoga if they do not oppress my own beliefs. This becomes then a matter of the mind, and common sense. If…

The soft and pliable brush quickly consumes the ink within its fibers, and I begin my personal journey with the meditation of Sumi-e painting. Sumi-e is a form of traditional Eastern Asian painting. Originating in China. The goal of this form of painting is not capturing photographic likeness of an object, but rather its spirit. A successful Sumi-e painter combines…

The Real Meaning of Meditation Meditation is not only bald guys wearing orange-ish red robes sitting in silence in pray like manner with crossed legs closed eyes and their hands on their laps or knees with their fingers in weird shades. Each person does it in some way or some form, but don’t realize what they are actually doing, to them it might just be relaxing or even a means of exercise. The environment around the meditator is not limited to a Zen garden with Buddha statues and Koi fish, but…

A sudden Nostalgia in a Yoga class. We, human beings, tend to build intimate and emotional connections towards various things we encounter or have and places that we visit. If, ever, our relationships with these things or places come to an end; we may well mourn their absence or go through an experience of remembrance. This emotional an existential remembrance could include the past; our past experiences, incidents we got through, actions, places we have been to and people we met. Despite the…

I. Introduction The Tibetan Buddhist culture has been melted into the Tibetan culture, the inheritance of which takes place not just in the temples and among monks, but more importantly in daily lives and celebration ceremonies of the masses. The religious culture has penetrated into the inner heart of every people in China so that it seems to be a part of their inborn nature and people just practice it in their life spontaneously. Why people go to religious rites? No one would ask about it, nor…

do. However, it was hard for me to understand him as English was not his first language, but he also motioned what we were to do as he spoke so we all understood. The service felt really short. I expected a teaching of Buddhism, but it was mostly meditation. He did do a chant, but I am not sure what it was about, as it was not spoken in English. I have many questions I wanted to ask, but I did not see a nun present. I wanted to know why you could not point your feet towards the monk? Also why…

In this fast moving world, we have lost our internal affiliation. Reliability is a fight. Everyone is fighting for some position. There is no time for your self. Throughout the day we lose energies dealing with our daily problems. Life is going away from us because of this. Society is looking around for real life, and searching for a solution to their stressful life. There is a new mechanism we can implemente in our life. It is called, ‘Mindfulness’. Mindfulness is a condition of dynamic, open…

Name: EYE Symbolic Meaning: Enlightenment. The spiritual third eye is a symbol of clairvoyance and spiritual gifts. Sometimes a deity would grant a third eye to a devotee to enhance their spiritual vision. There are also some cases of mythic stories where an eye is destroyed, and here it represents ignorance, which is often brought about by upsetting a Goddess, such as the example of Kuber or Shukracharya. Palmistry Meaning: Extremely strong intuitive ability, someone who has ‘seen the…

Yoga is responsible for creating a fine balance between the endocrine and the nervous systems in a human body and therefore it is very successful in influencing the good functioning of different body organs and systems directly or indirectly. Yoga provides a unique interconnectedness between the physical, mental, and emotional levels of human body and gradually makes way for an easy understanding of various restrained areas of existence. All this in turn helps in attaining some psychological…