meditation

Like many people, I love meditation. Well, I love the idea of it. Until recently, no matter how hard I tried I never seemed to get much progress in meditation.

“Yoga is the cessation of mind”
– Some Yoga wisdom from Patanjali

“Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. ”

Have you ever aimlessly looked into the distance and it’s not until someone actually calls your name a few times that you realise you were even in this “stare mode” ? Sometimes when we stare or gaze at something we are so focused that we withdraw from the external environment but without really realising it. […]

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Yesterday’s yoga class was a bit different. After our standard 3 “Oms” to begin the class our instructor gave us some theory on the mind. I have always enjoyed the theory side of yoga. Although I have attempted numerous times to brush up on yoga theory (my latest effort being the Hindi sacred scriptures, Bhagavad […]