Browsing Tag: Meditation

Guru Nanak began to tell everyone "There is no Hindu and there is no Muslim." A Muslim leader wanted to know what he meant, so he invited Guru Nanak to do an evening prayer with him. Guru Nanak just stood there during the prayer instead of bowing. Afterward the man tried to confront Guru Nanak on his disrespectful behavior. Guru Nanak's mind didn't change, though maybe his did.

Makkan Shah was devoted man who was a rich traveller. Once he was sailing in his ship a great storm almost sank his ship. He prayed to the Guru to save him and miraculously the storm calmed. He promised to give the Guru an offering...

Amrit Vela Sadhana (Naam Japna) has always been one of the three cores of Sikhi along with right livelihood (Kirat Karni) and sharing with everyone (Vand Chakna.) All three are required for us to live a balanced life.

Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her - that meditating can literally change your brain.

Ben Turshen opened the single door to his meditation studio less than six weeks ago and he has only been teaching the practice for two years. But his following is growing, perhaps because he’s the most unlikely of teachers.

What you repeat you become, and that has a frequency. If you replace that frequency with a different one you create a new frequency.

What I figured over time is that if you are truly listening you are not thinking. If you start to think, you’re not listening. You can’t do both at the same time. So the power of listening to your own voice while you are chanting, the power of listening to your beloved friend, rather than thinking about the next thing you are going to try to say is an incredibly healing way to move through the world.

Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That's the good news. The bad news is that starting when people are in their mid-to-late-20s, the brain begins to wither --

Garner noted, with a touch of wonder, that the interconnectivity that has made so many people stressed out also can offer them a solution.

So the repetition of practice wears away at our rigidity and softens the stiff and unworkable nature of our character. Practice sands away the rough edges and gradually creates a more permeable mind.

It turns out meditating is good for more than just quiet time: It can actually help us fight the cripplingly high stress levels we experience during our busy lives, in the office or elsewhere.

[VIDEO] This is the day we’ve been looking forward to for the past several months. For the second year in a row, Gurubachan and the local Kundalini community have been invited to teach in the Hall of Honor in the National Congress of Chile.

Do I regret wasting energy on worrying? NO! I have learned something from this experience, and now I have started living life and stop worrying about things. I do still worry about some issues, but the frequency and quantity is minimal compared to my past.

I have to say. This thing they call meditation? Pretty freaking cool. Before the Siri Singh Sahib’s teachings and I found each other, I’d been fed all sorts of hogwash by all sorts of well-meaning people...

“Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it’s much different than that,” says Puddicombe. “It’s more about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly— witnessing it coming and going — without judgment, but with a relaxed, focus mind.”

‘People who want to excel in any field should consider learning transcendental meditation.’ Once the provenance of hippies, the technique claims to wipe away anxieties and fears by helping people let go of their thoughts and enter a state of complete relaxation.

"While meditation is already practiced by millions, this is the first study to investigate its potential to reverse memory loss in patients with cognitive impairment," said Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.

Surely there are many people that would agree that there is something about this music that sets it apart from other styles.

Do you have the sense that life is speeding up the older you get? If so, you're not alone.

In the Executive Mind class, however, professor Jeremy Hunter pulls out decidedly different tools: a brass singing bowl and leather-wrapped mallet. The chimes from three strikes on the bowl quiet the dozen or so students, who have put away smartphones and other devices. They close their eyes.

I have come to believe that nothing should come before God and as my life progresses and the love inside my heart and soul grow more than I have ever dreamed or known , I come to a greater understanding of true love and Gods secret place.

Can yoga help reduce the stress that makes you look and feel older than your years? Does yoga help elevate your mood and make you mentally sharper? Will meditation enhance your spiritual outlook or give you a sense of peace and calm? As a Harvard neuro-scientist and a yoga practitioner for more than 40 years, I'm pleased to tell you the answers are a resounding "yes."

Every picture you see of people doing Kundalini Yoga, they are silently or out loud doing Nam Simran of Sat Nam.

The idea is that the feelings we have about people can be trained in optimal ways and this technique aims to condition one’s mind to recognize how we are all inter-dependent, and that everybody desires to be happy and free from suffering at a deep level.

New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method.

In the core of the philosophy of the Sikh Gurus is that we must seek to re-merge our consciousness to the Divine Consciousness, and that this requires us to uplift our awareness to beyond the mundane and egocentric perspective. We must, as Dr. Haidt might say, seek to become more than ourselves.

With further study this made sense to me. We have lived and evolved for hundreds of thousands of years eating primarily fruits, vegetables, and the occasional animal that we could catch. We are very well genetically adapted to eating these foods.

Being spiritual and connecting to the One Divine Creator is our main purpose in life. How can we do that? Do Sikhs meditate? What exactly is Naam Japna? What is Simran? Why do Sikhs chant Vaheguru? What is the Gurmantar? Where does the word Vaheguru come from?

Death and loss are universal experiences, which we all face at some time in some form. Death/loss is experienced according to one’s orientation, i.e. culture, religion, experience, and nervous system. For some, death is a wall, an ending; for some, it is a door, a beginning.

Imagine a small girl trying her very best to take care of her mother's emotional and sometimes physical needs. What an extremely heavy burden for a person of any age, especially a young child.