‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.’ – Simone de Beauvoir
Tag: focus
Expressions: Jan 2025 IV
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart
Expressions: Dec 2024
‘Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.’ – Thomas A. Edison
A U M (OM): A
The A-U-M chant can be conceptualized as a three part whole. There is the Waking State (Active Consciousness). The 'A' can be likened to the aspect of the 'waking state'.
A U M (OM)
The AUM (OM) chant is more than a mystical concept; it is part of everyday consciousness. Dividing reality into arbitrary aspects of three facilitates dealing with everyday mundane life, but AUM (OM) coalesces these aspects into a synchronous energetic locus point, aiding in manifesting potential. By vocalizing AUM (OM) with intention, one can feel its powerful reverberation and use it to calm mental chatter, develop conscious awareness, and harmonize reality's divisions.
Meditation is not sleepy-time . . . .
The benefits of meditation can be denuded due to the incidence of drowsiness. People who meditate do occasionally experience varying degrees of sleepiness.
Resolving Your Trauma
Mental Health is a personal endeavor that can provide clarity, stability and harmony to the individual in pursuance thereof
Woo-SAHHH . . .That moment
Then you leave the studio, the ashram, the practice hall, the comfort of your own home. A little perturbation arises. Your spiritual practice is strong: you can do marathon sessions of meditation. Your Qigong practice is not just a series of randomly sequenced set of movements: you feel the energy flowing as you direct it. Your pranayama is expansive, full, focused and complete. The seamless intertwining of Puraka (Inhalation), Abhyantara Khumbaka (Full Inhale Hold), Rechaka (Exhalation), Bahya Khumbaka (Full Exhale Hold) occurs effortlessly. Then you leave the studio, the ashram, the practice hall, the comfort of your own home. A little perturbation arises. Someone does not signal there turn in traffic. The barista does not quite season your latte in the manner to which you have grown accustomed. A child shows disrespect toward the parent (or your child shows disrespect toward you). It is at these times that your practices must be part of your being. You must not allow your mind to wander, to become agitated. . . . You must come (back) to a Woo-SAHH moment.
Meditation (is) not Sleeping
Nonetheless, I pondered his statements and it drove home the fact that (many) people (westerners) are socialized to view meditation with a HIGH Degree of circumspection. Meditation and meditating is mentioned 23 times in the (KJV) bible. Yet many still (choose to) remain ignorant as to what meditation really entails
Those Important Everyday Actions
The small things that we do can set the stage for the larger things that we wish to undertake.
Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness 