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There are not two minds, one good and the other evil. It is only the vasanas or tendencies of the mind that are of two kinds, good and favourable, evil and unfavourable. When the mind is associated with the former it is called good; and when associated with the latter it is called evil.
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Peacefulness Is Our True Nature
Peacefulness is our true nature, but because of all our wishes and desires that peace disappears. The path of yoga is the path of going back to the source, which is this peace. On the elemental level this body, this mind and everything comes from Space, which in the Chinese terminology is called the...
Realisation of What is NOT True
The process of yoga is to lose false identification with the sense of ‘I’ as we experience it, or ‘asmita’, as Patanjali calls it. There are 5 things which stop us from seeing the truth. These are fear, hatred, our desires, our sense of pride, ego, and ignorance about what is true. Until this...
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HIYC – Meta Awareness & Attention – Yoga Master Teacher Sharat Arora
3./8.10.14 BACK BENDS CLASS
Depending on the technique we apply in a pose, depending on what we are concentrating on, makes the effect of a pose completely different. So if our focus is not right, we can be very miserable. Same in life: if we focus on what is good, life is great because we...
About the Faith in Life – Totality
Some people think that their freedom is in trying out everything that there is. The one who is trying is the one who is not happy with one thing, therefore he will check another one. For example, I never try out all these restaurants around here, I don't need to because I am content...
Sadhana Pada – The Chapter Of Practice. Yoga Sutras, Chapter 2 Sadhana pada: sadhana – ‘practice’, pada – ‘chapter’.
There are three elements of sadhana: tapas, svadhyaya, and Ishvara pranidhana.
Tapas means ‘concentrated effort’.
Svadhyaya means ‘study of oneself’ and comes from sva – ‘oneself’ and adhyaya – ‘study’. You study yourself through meditation. There is no other way. Some people describe it as reading the scriptures, but if you look at yourself through the...
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Yoga Practice for IBS: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a very common affliction. It is estimated that 20-30 percent of the population in the USA is suffering from it.
Actually, IBS is a broad name for many kinds of symptoms and unpleasant sensations of the guts: bloating, cramps, pains, nausea, constipation or diarrhea (sometimes both together) and many...
Confusion of the Mind
This is a strange topic. To me the mind means confusion. There are a few people who are not confused because they know how to harness their mind to derive all its power. We use only a fraction of the energy available to us, which when used to its potential can be applied through...
Body & Mind Connection
Connection between body and mind is there all the time. In fact, according to the Yoga philosophy, first there is mind, then there is body. First comes thought and that thought has influence on the body. The mind comprises all the things that we desire and all the things we dislike; all our fears...
Prostate Health & Yoga
Over a third of men over the age of 50 will experience some issues relating to the health of the prostate, statistics from the National Health Service in the UK, and yet it is a part of the anatomy most men are very unfamiliar with.
What is the prostate? The prostate is a small gland...
Understanding Nature to Understand Myself through Yoga & Permaculture
I am living evidence of my connection to Nature. When I walk out into the cold and look down to my bare arms I see the hairs on my skin standing up. In the heat of summer my skin begins to sweat. There is a direct connection between my physical body and the external...
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