Mind and body matters For a long time, I meditated for about 15 minutes. I thought it was sort of the minimum one needs to do to get its benefits. But I also do yoga for my back before meditating, so the overall time was on the high side, in my view. So I started […]
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Meditations on meditation A successful and happy life is about saying yes to good things and no to bad things. Evolution has designed us to be largely successful as normal life forms in our usual ecosystem. Our problems arise primarily due to deviations from healthy behaviour. We have several innate imperfections and a tendency to
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It came late to me but has been totally worth it. Before I started meditating there was hardly any guarantee how I would react to people and situations. Or I should admit there was a guarantee I would most likely respond in the wrong way. Fear, selfishness, envy, jealousy, anger, irritation, greed, self-pity….there was no
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Techniques and tips from my experience. Meditating is hard. It is not a natural trait of ours. While we are awake, the brain naturally keeps thinking, at some level. I have been attempting to achieve a thoughtless state in my daily morning meditation. I am currently meditating for only 8 minutes. Even that is a
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Empty? Focused on something? Filled with light? July 15 2014 When I started meditating I assumed that the aim is to achieve a state of thoughtlessness. However, I know that there are allusions in many places to meditators achieving nirvana, or realising some tremendous and fundamental truth through meditation. If we don’t take the word
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