A technique to relax quickly. (article) - StumbleUpon HERE'S A TECHNIQUE for getting into a relaxed, sometimes even blissful state quickly. I found it in the book, Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan. He calls the technique Alternate Nostril Breathing. Here's how you do it: 1. Breathe in and out as quietly as you can. This seems a lot more complicated than it is. This technique occupies your mind. It is a scientific fact that your nostrils normally change dominance. Apparently this shift back and forth every 90 to 120 minutes is associated with brain hemisphere dominance. I'm speculating now, but it's possible that alternate breathing balances the activity of the two hemispheres of your brain so that neither is dominating the other. To make it easier to do this exercise, here is the technique in condensed form: Each in, out, and hold is done to a count of eight (approximately one second per count). You can do a less complex version of this.
20 Minute Guided Meditations Chapter 1, Verse 1 Madhvacarya has no commentary so we present Baladeva Vidyabhusana's. To properly illustrate the consistency in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield, Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa has quoted the first 27 verses in chapter one beginning dharma-ksetra kuru-ksetra refering to Kuruksetra as the land of righteousness. Now when King Dhritarastra learned that Lord Krishna had accepted the position of chariot driver for Arjuna, he immediately was suspicious and became doubtful of his son, Duryodhana's chances for victory. At that time he asked his minister Sanjaya a redundant question as what did his sons and the son of his brother do in the first verse of chapter one. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita begins with Dhritarastra asking Sanjaya: What did my sons and the sons of Pandu, assembled at the righteous land of Kuruksetra desirious of battle do? Ksetra also means field of cultivation.
Alain Boudet: Spiritualité, Science et Développement personnel en Dordogne Mindfulness In Plain English A PDF preview from the 20th edition - Click Here Special Offer - 20% Off the latest edition / The 20th Anniversary Edition - eBook or paperback / See Below "Mindfulness in Plain English" has been on UrbanDharma.org a while now for free download, but the edition I posted years ago was the first edition and is now rather dated. Over the last few months I have been in contact with the publisher at Wisdom Publications about M.I.P.E... I have come to understand any money that would have gone to Wisdom Publications (a non-profit publisher of Buddhist books) and the author Ven. Henepola Gunaratana to support his Buddhist Center the Bhavana Society, is forever lost. I think supporting both Wisdom Publications and Ven. " Wisdom Publications and UrbanDharma.org have joined forces to offer a 20% discount code - UDMIP- on the New Edition of "Mindfulness in Plain English" which can be applied to both the 'paperback and eBook' version at check out, on the Wisdom Publications website... Peace...
Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief: Finding the Relaxation Exercises that Work for You The relaxation response: Bringing your nervous system back into balance Stress is necessary for life. You need stress for creativity, learning, and your very survival. Stress is only harmful when it becomes overwhelming and interrupts the healthy state of equilibrium that your nervous system needs to remain in balance. When stress overwhelms your nervous system your body is flooded with chemicals that prepare you for "fight or flight." Producing the relaxation response A variety of different relaxation techniques can help you bring your nervous system back into balance by producing the relaxation response. Learning the basics of these relaxation techniques isn’t difficult, but it does take practice. Finding the relaxation technique that’s best for you There is no single relaxation technique that is best for everyone. How you react to stress may influence the relaxation technique that works best for you: Do you need alone time or social stimulation? Practicing deep breathing meditation
Secrets of Lasting Happiness Excerpts from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda Positive Mental Attitudes If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up. Never lose hope. Your soul, being a reflection of the ever joyous Spirit, is, in essence, happiness itself. Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes. Essentially, conditions are neither good nor bad; they are always neutral, seeming to be either depressing or encouraging because of the sad or bright attitude of the mind of the individual concerned with them. Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances. The mind, being the brain, feeling, and perception of all living cells, can keep the human body alert or depressed. Constantly you affirm sorrow, therefore it exists. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. Your highest happiness lies in your being ever ready in desiring to learn, and to behave properly. Affirmations
Mindfulness exercises | Living Well Mindfulness practice allows you to be able to identify, tolerate and reduce difficult, painful and even frightening thoughts, feelings and sensations; it gives you back some sense of mastery over them. Rather than feeling that you are being pushed around by your feelings and thoughts you learn to be able to have some agency over them. So what is this thing called mindfulness? Below are some definitions: The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment to moment (Kabat-Zinn, 2003). The non-judgmental observation of the ongoing stream of internal and external stimuli as they arise (Baer, 2003). Put simply, mindfulness is as simple as becoming aware of your here and now experience, both internally and in the external world around you. Sometimes it is easier to understand something in terms of what it is not. We have provided a number of downloadable mindfulness exercises in this section.
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