While yoga and meditation are often the two most widely practiced rituals to help one achieve mindfulness and serenity in the mind and body, Mudra is a practice that offers similar benefits that not many people know about. Mudra uses different hand positions and gestures to stimulate various different areas of the body and mind.…
Vicki Howie from ConsciousLifeNews writes: If you’re not familiar with the beautiful Heart-healing technique know as Ho’Oponopono, you should be. It’s the simplest, yet most profound technique I know for opening your heart chakra. Right here. Right now. It’s based around four key phrases — perhaps four of the hardest phrases to say. That is why…
Susan L. Magine of Awakening People writes: Everything in reality is made of energy. But for most of us this can be a hard concept to comprehend because we are conditioned to perceiving the world as very real and solid. As children we are taught, for example, that a table is a table, and a…
Ariana Marisol of RealFarmacy.com writes: Often, when kids act up in school, they get detention or they get suspended. This school has replaced these forms of punishment with meditation to help kids calm themselves. Instead of punishing disruptive kids, Robert W. Coleman Elementary School, located in Baltimore, has been offering meditation to its students. This…
Christina Sarich of The Mind Unleashed writes: The benefits of meditation have been touted for decades now, with seemingly a new scientific study coming out as fast as you can say ‘Aum’. Harvard has proven that meditation rebuilds the grey matter in our brains in as little as 8 weeks, and according to University of…
Meditation can be used to solve plenty of common issues that most of us experience in today’s fast paced lifestyle. Studies in the last few years by major universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and even MIT have shown how beneficial meditation can be in all aspects of our lives. Here is just a few…
Carolanne Wright of Wake Up World writes: In this day and age, we’d be hard-pressed to find a few moments without the cacophony of modern life swirling around us. With 24/7 access to television, streaming video, radio and all sorts of digital music, we might not give a second thought to the constant audio bombardment. Nor do…