It seems that everywhere we turn, we see the words meditation and mindfulness. Scientific American and Time magazine recently devoted entire issues to this topic. Which just warms my heart; bringing it into the mainstream is powerful! However, with the increase in awareness and a growing … [Read more...]
Understanding and Taming the Stress in Your Life
Stress is not the enemy. The stress response, also known as the fight or fight response is programmed deep within our physiology to keep us alive. In our earliest existence as a species, we were running around in the jungle in a sexy little loincloth just struggling to survive. Many of our predators … [Read more...]
Pratyahara~ The Art of Slow in a World of Busy
Taking the Time to Notice The word pratyahara is composed of two Sanskrit words, prati and ahara. Ahara means “food” or “anything we take into ourselves from the outside”; prati means away or against. Therefore, pratyahara can be translated to mean, “the removal or withdrawal from anything that we … [Read more...]
The Pursuit of Happiness
Our desire to be happy is a powerful driving force in our lives. We chase after happiness, often in the wrong direction, believing that what we have or do not have plays a significant role in our ability to smile. Sometimes, we just need to look at our life from a different perspective in order to … [Read more...]
