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Question: How can a person integrate this practice into their lives? Answer: Generally a person will practice yoga nidra (Deep Relaxation) either during the day in order to get quick rest and rejuvenation, or at night in bed, just before falling…
Question: What do you do if your mind wanders or is distracted? Answer: Distractions, including various kinds of thoughts and feelings, will come and go. You don’t need to worry about them. Don’t try to prevent them. If you discover that…
Question: What are the main benefits of practicing mindfulness meditation? Answer: The practice of mindfulness has a primary benefit and a secondary benefit. The primary benefit from the yoga perspective is that it helps you realize that you are not your mind….
Written with Ted Spencer Varuna lived with his wife in a small cottage not far from the water’s edge. It was an isolated beach, small, protected from the wind and waves by a finger of land that jutted across the…
Written with Ted Spencer The following morning found Michael and Varuna sitting on the beach after their first surf. The sun was warmer than the previous day and they had their wetsuits peeled down to their waists. The faintest hint…
Written with Ted Spencer Michael stroked over the first of two waves and halfway up the face of the third, then sat back on his board, grabbed the left rail, reversed his board, and pulled it under him and aimed…
Your meditation questions answered! Does chanting mantras ever get monotonous? Is Aum a mantra? Can mantras be bought and sold? Is chanting a kind of self-hypnosis? Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda answers these questions and more. Mantra Meditation Questions & Answers Question:…
The practice of mantra meditation is very simple. But first let me give you a summary of the science of identity, of which mantra meditation is a part. “Science” means “truth”; therefore the science of identity means the truth of…
Relax, and sit or lie in a quiet place. Don’t attempt to control the thinking process by trying to think certain thoughts and not think others. Instead, let your mind think about whatever it may. Now watch your mind and…
