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Meditation is Deep Rest

Q: Could you advise on what is the best way of going into meditation. And is there any kind of special music which can enable you to access that space better? (Ritu Kumar: Fashion designer from India (Recipient of the Padmashree in 2013)) Gurudev: Meditat ...

Intuitive Awareness Increases With Meditation

Q: How can one live one’s life without self-inflicted guilt and the guilt inflicted by others on us? Gurudev: You are in the right place. Just know this, guilt is like the dust on our clothes, or on our skin. So what do you do? You wash it with a little s ...

4 Reasons why Early Morning Meditation is a Good Habit

Have you noticed how a lot can happen in 24 hours? So wouldn’t morning be the best time for meditation, when it is all just beginning? Let’s have a look at some advantages of doing morning meditation #1 Have a sorted day better than a scattered one Imagin ...

Best Ways to Deal with Stress at Home

How to Deal with Stress at Home You'd probably agree that life is an inseparable combination of the pleasant and the unpleasant. It can take a great deal of effort to manage one's mind, and when two people come together in marriage, a lot of adj ...

Four Obstacles To Meditation

There are four obstacles to meditation. This is in relation to the obstacles once we sit for meditation rather than the obstacles in sitting to meditate. 1. Iccha or Desire This means desire. It refers to the desire to do something and includes planning a ...

Give Up In Your Meditation, Not On Your Meditation!

"When I first started meditating, thirty-seven odd years ago, my mind was a mess. Many of my meditations were unrelenting "thinkitations". I probably would have stopped meditating if I hadn't liked my teacher a lot and if he wasn' ...

5 Important Soft Skills & How You Can Nurture Them (Part-2)

This is a continuation from Important Soft Skills and How You Can Nurture Them Part-1 #3 Be Open Minded If there's one thing we cannot avoid, it is criticism. This is a universal truth, and so holds true for the professional space as well. There will ...

How to improve your soft skills with meditation?

Recently, a retail banker friend narrated an eye-opening experience she had with a new intern. The intern, a post graduate from a premium B-school had been employed with a reputed financial BPO. My friend was looking forward to working with her. However, ...

Pay-offs Of Being A Meditator

Pay-off # 1: Stress free mind and body Too stressed to meditate? Meditation acts on the subtler levels of your consciousness and relieves any accumulated stress while shielding you from more stress that might accumulate. This makes you anchored in the Sel ...

Tips on how to become a Fashion Stylist

Rachael Zoe once said, " Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak ". Styling isn't just a profession—it says a lot about who you are. For budding fashion stylists, the journey can be smooth or rocky. It is all about knowing ...