One way to deepen a meditation practice is to share it. I don’t mean tell someone about it. I mean guide them.
As we seek to become more mindful, our life can be full of appreciation for the small things and we can likely feel less overwhelmed as we focus on the task at hand.
Spiritual healing methods are a means of releasing trapped emotions. These practices help you process emotions and even clear past emotions that are causing you issues.
We all have things we believe in, deeply held opinions that shape who we are and what we do.
Imagine how beautiful your life and our world would be if you could rest with your inner and outer experiences exactly as they are.
In her final interview before her death Mother Teresa was asked, “What do you say when you pray?” She said, “I listen.” The interviewer then asked, “Well, what does God say?” She said, “He listens.”
A student of mine, a freelance writer named Georgia, recently told me about her journey to self-love. As is the case for many freelancers, Georgia’s workload ebbed and flowed, and flowed particularly high when she felt the fear of financial pressure. A few years ago, Georgia explained to me, she took on too much work as a way to pay her bills and fend off acute future anxiety about money troubles. As soon as the work piled up, Georgia’s life became much less healthy — and it took her some time to notice the cycle she was caught in.
We only get one body in this life, the one we are each endowed with right this moment. Please begin by giving yours the respect it deserves. Did you realize every atom in it is 14.5 billion years old? All bodies are part of matter, created at the big bang, 10 billion years before the earth appeared.
Lauren Eckstrom, an L.A. based holistic yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher, recently sat down to talk with us about getting in touch with our inner wisdom, the powerful combination of yoga and mindfulness, and how we can take these tools anywhere, from the airport to the grocery store. Lauren also sneaks in some exciting previews of her Holistic Yoga Flow Retreat that she will be leading with her partner Travis Eliot at the Art of Living Retreat Center September 3-6.
For better or for worse, there is no way around the fact that technology breeds isolation, at least in certain ways. Eighty-two percent of American smartphone users (a majority of our nation’s population) reported in a recent Pew survey that the presence of phones deteriorated their most recent in-person conversations. Such figures are harrowing, but not surprising.
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