Recently I have been thinking about being present and my newsletters have reflected this. I have touched on why we tend to (seemingly unconsciously) retreat from the present moment and the mechanism of the mind and its processes. I have talked about ‘the circling thoughts’...
Last week I took part in an amazing online meditative class with my teacher, in which the preparation for meditation was very breath focused. And the reason it was SO amazing was that during the fifteen minutes in which I executed the Prāṇāyāma technique there...
You might be wondering why am I so insistent on introducing meditation to my readers. Well, there's a story behind that!In my late teens I was a highly active individual, and movement was my life. An Indian Classical dancer, a Reebok certified aerobic and step...
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” This verse from the Bible (Proverbs, 23:7) influenced the title of James Allen’s 1902 literary essay ‘As a Man Thinketh’ in which he states: “As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the...