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  1. My first meditation course

    I attended about four Art of Silence Courses in the first year I joined the Art of Living Foundation. I  dreaded each one, yet I kept signing up because it was clear at the end of every course, something profoundly good was happening within me. My first s ...
  2. Don’t Sell Your Smile For Peanuts

    I was recently asked a question: What can you learn in 1 minute that will be useful for the rest of your life? This post is in response to that question. Many of us don’t smile enough. It takes so little effort and delivers such good benefits. Yet often w ...
  3. What Impact Do Your Words have on the Environment?

    The air was crisp and the sun warm when I headed out this morning for a walk in historical Washington Park, a bedrock of the Denver community where I live. The famous philanthropist, Molly Brown, (of Titanic fame)who helped to shape our dear Victorian cit ...
  4. Discover the Healing Power of Nature

    When I look down a trail and can’t see where it’s going, with the softness of the orange pine needles and fallen leaves underfoot, something draws me deeper down the trail’s passage. There is something about moving over the actual earth, with no concrete ...
  5. Yoga and Anxiety, Part 2

    By Sejal Shah | Posted: April 02, 2018 This article continues from last week’s  Yoga and Anxiety, Part 1.  Regular yoga practice can help you stay calm and relaxed in daily life. Yoga also gives you the the strength to face events as they come, without lo ...
  6. Discover the Intelligent Shopper in You! (Part- 2)

    Continued from Discover the Intelligent Shopper in You! (Part- 1) Way #6: Stop Resisting & You’ll Find That It Will Stop Persisting. You might have noticed that the more you resist yourself from doing something, the more your mind wanders in that dire ...
  7. Meditation for World Peace

    All world problems, from military conflicts to domestic conflicts, are caused by violence. Through meditation we can remove the cause of violence, thus bringing peace to the world. Any action that is undertaken without inner peace only leads to regret. An ...
  8. Meditation for Seekers

    Where are you on the spiritual path? You may think of yourself as a spiritual person, but when you are caught in a traffic jam, or someone disagrees with you, your spiritual nature seems to take a holiday. Worries, sorrows and disturbances are certain to ...
  9. Meditation & Love

    If you look at all the pleasures you get in life, they all come with a 'tax'! This tax is sorrow. Every event, however pleasant, causes pain in the end. Greater the joy; greater is the pain. Longing for an event or waiting for a pleasurable even ...
  10. Meditation and The Ego

    When you are in a group, and there is discomfort, this is because of barriers, of the ego. Take a deep breath, watch the discomfort, it will disappear.- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. What Is Ego? Ego says, "I am something, I am somebody, I am very gr ...
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