“Effortless mindfulness” is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom traditions, award-winning author Loch Kelly offers a practical guide to experiencing the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution: effortless mindfulness. Learn how to enter an optimal …
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To achieve anything in the material world, you make an effort. To make money, you put effort; to stay fit, you put in the muscle work; to get into the Ivy League, you study hard; and even to do something as simple as eat, you need to pick up the fork and put the food …
by Aidan Young I’m so excited to share this conversation with you today! I recently had the chance to connect with Jon Young, Dr. Nicole Apelian, and Victor Wooten, and reflect on their experience with the San Bushmen from the Kalahari and what they have learned from the trip. We talked for more than an …
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Exploring Mindful Awareness in Daily Life Here’s a story about two very different journeys, each taken by the same person on the same trail. The outer conditions are virtually the same in each story. The real difference in each journey occurs within the attitude and the attentional focus of the person in question. There’s something …
Your yoga practice does not have to be separate from everyday life. In fact, you can practice yoga constantly—whether you’re commuting, talking to a client, arguing with a loved one, or exhausted from a long day. With a little practice, you can be in a yogic state every moment. Like so many others, I used …
“Inner Silence” is a powerful guided meditation for healing. This meditation technique helps you experience the journey from the ceaseless chatter of the mind to the serenity of a still mind. Meditation & Mindfulness Quiet the mind, experience inner peace, and embrace joy and aliveness in one of our signature meditation retreats. LEARN MORE and …
I first dipped my toes into Ayurveda as an extension of my yoga and meditation practice. I was looking for a complete experience of vitality, optimal health and well-being, and lots of energy. My first intention was to go into Ayurveda School for my own personal vitality, but as it turns out, I fell in …
The first step to Truth Speaking is opening our hearts. Sometimes we resist this because we think it means that anything and anyone can come in and do us harm. There’s a difference between an open heart, which can feel, process, and stay steady, versus a stuck-open-window heart, which lets all sorts of crap in. …
Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis. (When the mind is ill at ease, the body is affected.) —Ovid It hurts. Your pain is awful. Your misery is unrelenting. No matter what you do, you can’t get rid of it. You went to your doctor, and he told you that you had a medical condition: degenerative disc disease, …
Concentration is the skill of undivided attention, the super power of committing our attention to what we want at a given time, and nothing else. When all our faculties converge in a single activity or direction, the mind and the body are happy. Our background worry programs often fade, and we can find ourselves in …
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