There are as many ways to meditate as there are ways to dance. The result of each dance is the same – you come closer to and communicate with your partner – in the case of meditation – the soul. But each dance flows differently. Each meditation spontaneously expresses the inner music of the moment, which is never the same. There are, however, some basic steps which can take you to that union more efficiently. Continue reading “A30 How To Meditate: Practical Guidelines concerning how to meditate”

Fear is mother of all painful emotions.

“WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF”
Franklin Theodore Roosevelt

Indeed fear is our greatest obstacle to happiness, peace and fulfillment on a personal, social and international level. All anger, hatred, prejudice, aggression, violence, and war can be ultimately attributed to fear. From the moment we relinquished the security of our mother’s womb and our umbilical cord was cut, we experienced separation, isolation, insecurity and fear. Continue reading “A46 Overcoming Fear: An explanation of how fear is created and how we can deal with it”

Various forms of meditation and inner concentration have been developed by most cultures and systems devoted to human health, harmony and evolution. The concept of coming into contact with an inner power, an inner voice, an inner knowledge or an inner guidance is common to all spiritual systems and religions. Continue reading “A62 What Is Yoga: An explanation of what Yoga really is”

The use of water, hot and cold, in the form of baths, showers, water bottles and wet packs is an inexpensive, completely safe and wonderfully effective way of relieving pain, recovering from illnesses and remaining healthy. Continue reading “A78 Heat And Water Therapy – How water and heat can aid in self healing”

We depend on our relationships with those around us. We need others in order to feel security and meaningfulness in our lives. Yet we ignore the one relationship which has the most to offer us, our relationship with Ultimate Reality; with the Universal Consciousness which is the Source of our lives; with God. Devotion to our relationship with God is not a particularly popular subject today. You don’t see much about it on TV or at the movies or in newspapers or magazines. You don’t hear people referring often to their relationship with God. The sad fact is that very few people today are devoted to any relationship. There is an epidemic of ego-centeredness in which people are living more and more for self gratification; wanting to take from others but giving little importance to what they might give. This sad situation has created an unhappy and lonely society. Continue reading “A14 Devotion to God: A contemplation on how we can be consciously devoted to the Divine”

A person without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in the storm of life. He has no control, no way of creating harmony or improving the quality of his life. Discipline is the key to evolution. It is the key to personal and social harmony and progress. It is the key to real culture and civilization. In Sanskrit a very special work is used to refer to all kinds of spiritual disciplines. The word is «Tapas». It has many meanings in English. Some of them are: Continue reading “A15 Discipline & Evolution: The role of discipline in our spiritual evolution”

A. INEFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Most of us are rather ineffective in expressing our needs and solving our interpersonal problems. We either tend to withhold and suppress our feelings or we go to the other extreme of exploding onto the other person blaming him for our unhappiness. When we do not express our needs and feelings, we tend to become tense, bitter, negative, and feel alienated and resentful towards the person or situation which we feel is responsible for not fulfilling our needs and expectations. This creates internal tension which can result in illness of all types. Continue reading “A16 Effective Communication: How to communicate more effectively through I-messages and Active Listening”

Have you ever been to a quiet stream in the countryside, in the spring, when life is green and moist? You sit down on a rock and watch the running water. The sights and sounds of the flowing water and the growing plant life begin to work their mysterious way into your nervous system. Continue reading “A01 A Natural Meditation: A description of how one might experience a meditation in nature”