06 July 2011
Sleep research shows that girls are more likely to remember dreams than boys Concerning dreaming there is a clear gender difference: girls remember the morning more often about what they have dreamed at night than boys. Researchers say that that this also has to do with the fact that that girls don’t quite sleep as [...]
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01 July 2011
People living in cities run a higher risk of suffering from depression or an anxiety disorder. Researchers now have a possible explanation: An experiment showed a much stronger response to stress in the brain of city residents. Moving to the countryside sounds for many urban dwellers like relaxation, better air, less traffic noise and perhaps [...]
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12 June 2011
More recently I have been looking for ways to reduce daily time spent on my practice consisting of sitting meditation (Vipassana) and yoga (asanas and pranayama). I learned about Buteyko from a friend who addresses his hyperventilation using this breathing method. At first sight the similarities between the Boteyko method and common practices of [...]
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26 May 2011
Meditation is explained as a mental self-discipline of setting the thoughts to its deeper state of relaxation. It arrives from the root word, meditate is derived from the Latin phrase “meditatum”, which means to believe or to ponder. There are really a handful of mediation approaches to achieve this state of brain. These days, every [...]
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24 May 2011
Deepak Chopra’s bestselling book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success offered readers rules to live by that had the power to materially transform their lives. But times have changed and we are balancing more than ever before. In THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUPERHEROES (HarperOne; June 2011; Hardcover; $25.99; ISBN 9780062059666), Chopra reveals seven new [...]
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24 May 2011
Yogis worldwide can now take yoga practice wherever they go; Yogayak.com offers video yoga classes, meditation classes and pranayama exercises for cell phones and iPod. Yogayak.com is an online yoga studio offering video classes in Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama and a free community Forum. For $9.95US per month, our members gain [...]
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22 February 2011
An ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi is a cancer risk and should be banned, an influential lobby group has claimed.
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09 July 2010
An incomplete list of consciousness tools I will write about next.
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17 June 2010
The Wheel of Life or Wheel of Existence is a buddhist concept showing the way to liberation or nirvana from cyclic existence of birth and death or samsara.
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02 June 2010
West coast spiritual teacher Adyashanti has produced this highly instructive audio program called 'True Meditation', which takes the aspiring meditation practitioner through some of the fundamental concepts of meditation.
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