Why go on a meditation retreat? My mind used to be like a crowded town square, an overwhelming milieu of thoughts, worries, doubts, and complaints, constantly tripping on memories and regrets. While exploring ways to silence the constant chatter, the value of keeping the mind in the present moment kept coming up. I was ready …
New research points to an alarming yet obvious finding—our obsession with gadgets and tech is making our relationships shallower, and our love lives weak. Many people feel their lives depend on these devices for work, entertainment, and to stay in contact—but with these also comes the stress of constantly being bombarded with “noise,” always being …
Everyone experiences some degree of grief, violence, and heartbreak throughout their lives. Meditation and yoga are tools we can use to ride the waves of traumatic experiences and help heal the wounds of past traumas. Research has found that yoga and meditation are effective strategies for managing trauma symptoms and positively impact those who have …
So you just returned from the heavenly Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, after a refreshing and re-energizing week-long Silence Retreat at the pristine Art of Living Retreat Center. You are feeling all sorts of blissful, happy, and relaxed, like nothing in the world could bother you at this moment. You want to sustain this happiness, …
Some of the most beautiful benefits of meditation are that it makes your heart more supple, transforms your emotions, and opens the door to heightened self-awareness. Once you have been able to see directly as an experience that most thoughts, emotions, and behavior that manifest in life are not about you, they are merely happening …
It’s the holiday season! Here’s why you shouldn’t stress yourself out about creating the perfect holiday, so you can enjoy it for precisely what it is. I have a very specific fantasy when I dream of the perfect holiday season—I’m in a beautiful log cabin nestled in a mountain valley, with thick, plush snowdrifts practically …
It’s scientific fact that everything in the universe consists of pure energy—constantly moving, oscillating, and vibrating. We, too, are made up of rapidly moving energy, and that energy has a vibrational frequency. Maybe you’ve never thought about your frequency before, but we’ve all heard phrases like “you create your reality” and “like attracts like.” You’ve …
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Would you like to be more courageous in life? Would you like to gain self-confidence? Have you ever felt too scared to take the leap into a better future for yourself? In challenging times, we resort to safe and familiar ways, only to later regret that we didn’t act more courageously. Maybe you have a …
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Want to live a more joyful life filled with gratitude? Use this gratitude meditation to feel year-round joy! Plus four steps to increase your gratitude. Are you here for the gratitude meditation? Meditate here. When do we feel grateful? When there is abundance, and also when there is lack. When things are going right and …
It is essential to detoxify the accumulation of summer heat before heading into the next season. Excess heat in the body accumulated over the summer can create stiff joints, inflammation, irritability, anger, depletion, and dryness. The body may produce mucous in response to dryness, leading to sinus infections, constipation, colds, and other imbalances. This dryness …
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