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26-Sep-2012
Fuel Your Mind
Gotu Kola - The Memory Herb
Elephants are noted for their good memory, perhaps because they frequently eat Gotu Kola leaves. Long revered by yogis in the Himalayas for its purported ability to enhance meditation, the Gotu Kola...
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23-May-2010
Watch Your Mouth
What You Say Happens
In Physics and Cognitive Science, there are innumerable examples that show how the subjectivity. . .
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There’s nothing like that feeling: you’ve given your all and, completely spent, you wake from the post-effort nap totally refreshed.
18-Apr-2010
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Many of the esoteric traditions refer to “the third eye” as the seat of all knowledge.
08-Apr-2010
Lead with the Heart
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In every yoga pose, when there is a bend at the hips, the instruction is to “lead with the heart.”
25-Mar-2010
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Time is elastic. It contorts itself to perceptions. Sometimes it flies by; sometimes it will never get to 5 o’clock.
11-Mar-2010
Let's Make a Deal
A Contract With Your Heart
“To err is human/ to forgive divine.” You know it is best to overlook the shortcomings of others.
21-Feb-2010
Confront It
Put Fear Under the Microscope
The mind does what it does, it’s pretty much always going. By cultivating a relationship with it, through meditation, you begin to notice patterns.
11-Feb-2010
Be the Lesson
Experience is the Best Teacher
You have a trove of experiences to draw from, which automatically means you have wisdom to share.
24-Jan-2010
Investigate Your Thinking
Is It True?
These days more and more people understand the simple fact that “Truth” is almost always relative.
14-Jan-2010
Pattern Interrupt
Shake Things Up
Here we go again! The rat race, the hamster wheel, the not-so-merry-go-round - over and over again.
20-Dec-2009
The Best Present
Make a Gratitude List
So many problems, worries, and challenges, it piles up fast! That overwhelmed feeling is a signal...
13-Dec-2009
Bedtime Stories
Program Yourself for Peace
You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to know that when you’re tired, you’re more susceptible to influence.
03-Dec-2009
Panic Prescription
One-Minute Breath
Yogic texts and Chinese medicine teach that every person is particularly sensitive to their fears along the meridians of the diaphragm.
12-Nov-2009
Seek and Ye Shall Find
The Promise of an Examined Life
This simple phrase, which seems to hold out a promise to all who read or hear it, hides a profound knowledge...
28-Oct-2009
Your Inner King Kong
Let Music Tame the Monkey Mind
Sometimes it’s tough to chill out. Stress comes at you from work, from family and from yourself...
15-Oct-2009
Be Specific
Clarify for Contentment
The Buddha’s second teaching is that the root of suffering is desire. In other words, it’s perfectly natural to want things...
24-Sep-2009
Feel It First
Then Give Thanks
One of the most powerful success strategies, borrowed from the Bible, science of mind and popular motivational speakers is...
17-Sep-2009
Smile
Fortune Will Return the Favor
You’ve probably heard about how the act of smiling affects your mood (endorphins, serotonin… these things immediately kick in).
10-Sep-2009
White Knights to the Rescue
Visualization for Immune Support
These days your immune system is busy. This is partly because of the pollutants in the air, water and food...
23-Aug-2009
Brain Cleanse
Go on a News Fast
While the benefits of this super-connected global village are plentiful, there is a down-side, too. As the information age moves faster and faster...
02-Aug-2009
Take it to the Top
Use Your Head to De-Stress
The scalp contains thousands of nerve endings. These nerves are in close proximity to the sense organs...
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