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  1. Running After A Thing Called the Mind: A Meditator’s Guide

    Everthing’s perfect. The room is quiet, devices are on silent mood and you’re easing into the lotus posture, ready to get into the world of meditation. A dim memory of a bill payment looms up, out of nowhere. Was it due today? No wait, it’s not until four ...
  2. Meditation connects body, mind & spirit to increase productivity

    The pressures at work can be endless. It can be meeting deadlines or dealing with clients or challenging colleagues. Add to this list overtime issues, and the pressure to increase productivity. There is a need to make the most of your skills. You also hav ...
  3. Just 20 Minutes of Meditation Can Keep Your Mind Healthy

    Isn’t our mind the very essence of our being—what makes us feel alive? What are we without our mind? Flesh and blood? You’d probably agree. Our perception, experiences, feelings, and the ability to think and act are all processed by our mind. Doesn’t that ...
  4. Meditation for clarity of mind

    Have you ever felt that you've almost made up our mind, but then, from nowhere, a black cloud of doubt appears that doesn't seem to clear? Such doubts are like ripples in the water that give us a distorted reflection of ourselves and all that ar ...
  5. Mindfulness Through Meditation

    The one who says meditation is for the old or someone who sits at the foothills of Himalayas probably needs to revisit the thought. Meditation is like a kaleidoscope. Every time you change the angle of the kaleidoscope, you get a different, beautiful pict ...
  6. The Mind

    We have never taken a close look at our minds. The faculty with which we hear and see is the mind. When you listen to someone, you may continuously agree or disagree with what is being said. It is your intellect that is doing this. And you remember what i ...
  7. Mind and Meditation

    "Have you observed what is happening in your mind every moment? It vacillates between the past and the future. It is either in the past, occupied with what has happened, or in the future thinking about what you have to do. Knowledge is being aware of ...
  8. Mindfulness with Meditation: Be a Witness to Life

    Have we noticed how deeply engrossed we can be in an interesting movie? We identify ourselves with the characters on screen to the extent that we get angry at their follies and cry at their losses! We enjoy the movie thoroughly, yet there is an awareness ...
  9. Meditation Keeps the Mind Clean Like a Mirror

    Q – When is a good time to meditate and when you are meditating, what should you think about? Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar- Meditate in the morning, afternoon, and evening, before food: before breakfast, lunch and dinner. When thoughts come, normally what ...
  10. Know Your Mind

    Standing high on a mountain peak... experiencing the amazing feeling of the cool breeze touching your face... the soothing sound of chirping birds... as you stretch your arms to contain the infinite blue expanse, you are completely immersed and one with t ...
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