Being stressed clearly makes you feel bad, but it's more than just a temporary or situational sensation. Stress has a serious physiological impact, as well, and experiencing prolonged stress can lead to an abundance of physical issues. Those who claim to experience higher levels of stress are at risk of developing health problems ranging from [...]
The entire practice of yoga is not to identify with thoughts but to remain in witnessing passive awareness. According to Patanjali, yoga goes beyond the modifications of the mind. Reactive thinking is active regardless of what you are doing. Reactive, mental and emotional activity arises out of unresolved impressions built into the time-bound karma body [...]
You may not realize it, but your mind and body feed off of one another's energy, and when you face certain challenges or stressors, you develop both physical and psychological tension. As one tension becomes worse, so does the other. However, the opposite is also true — when you relieve one form of tension, the other [...]
The brain is a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, it needs a constant workout to stay strong. Also, like any other muscle in your body, your brain grows used to certain "exercises" and, after a while, stops responding to them. For instance, when you do the same things every day — [...]
Stress has reached epidemic proportions and is built into all facets of our lives: love life, family life, work life, and social life. Eighty percent of physical, mental and emotional health problems are now recognized as the cause of tension based disease and illnesses. The connection between stress and physical, mental and emotional related illnesses [...]
Human beings are born with the unique ability to materialize their thoughts into forms. The mind is an evolutionary human gift that emerged from the subconscious. The subconscious animal body functions through instincts and is present in the physical body as the autonomic nervous system. The mind gives us the facility to become an individual [...]
What you think in your mind is strongly influenced by how you feel in your body. If your body is toxic, has impurities, energy blocks, is dull, insensitive, in pain or discomfort your mind cannot concentrate. The harmonious flow in relationships, work life, social life, and family life become the medium of mental irritations, fears, and [...]
Ask any successful person what the secret to success is, and he or she is bound to tell you, a healthy morning routine. Whether you like it or not, the choices you make first thing in the morning set you up for the rest of the day. When you rush out the door without eating, [...]
The practice of I AM Yoga and Yoga Nidra is designed to move from the stage of waking consciousness to the awakened state of consciousness. During the waking state, our mind operates from unconscious patterns. These patterns are compulsive and habitual. Whenever they emerge in the form of reaction, the reactive perceiver sees what is [...]
Everything you know about yourself, the world in which you live, or the books you read comes through your mind. Yet you cannot know who you really are through the mind. The mind is only a part of you, and a part cannot comprehend the whole. It cannot know the Self. The Self that is eternal, [...]
