Banish Stress with these Yoga, Breathing and Meditation Tips.
Hello everyone! Stress is a normal reaction our body has to challenging situations like when we are in danger or when we are doing a new activity. But if it takes control over us it can negatively affect our health. Because of this it is important to be aware of the signs ...Read More
Yoga Sutras: A Lifestyle that Joins Body, Mind and Spirit
In the first few posts about yoga I talked to you about the physical side of yoga, but let’s not forget that yoga signifies body, mind and spirit. Only when you focus on these three planes will you achieve balance, and balance is what will lead you to harmony and well-being. For ...Read More
What’s Your Yoga Style?: The 5 Most Popular
Here we are again with another post about yoga. As I mentioned to you the other day, there is a type of yoga for everyone. You might not be in great shape right now, and you’re looking for something a little easier. Or you could be just the opposite, perhaps you feel ...Read More
Relaxation Exercise…for anywhere
With this technique, with this wonderfull relaxation exercise, you will learn to renew yourself with a break when facing stress. You will learn to relax and to improve your concentration. Loosen up and relax all the muscles in your body, feel them become extremely light, while at the same time associating this sensation ...Read More
Feeling of Suffocation: Causes and Treatment
To feel like you can’t breath or that you’re choking can feel very terrifying for the person going through it. However, don’t get worked up. This is often times a symptom of anxiety, which can be cured if you learn to know your body better and to focus on things in a ...Read More
Sleep well to heal your skin
Sleeping is free and it is one of the best foods and most powerful medicines for keeping skin healthy, young, and beautiful. Do you like to stay up late? Do you spend a lot of time in the morning in front of a computer screen? Can you not sleep well? Do you ...Read More
Meditation for dissolving fear
We have all felt fear at some point in time. Fear is not a “negative” nor “bad” emotion. It is a feeling that wants to protect us in some way, either by preserving your integrity or courage. Fear is not the same as caution. Caution is a certain natural body alert that ...Read More
Transcendental Meditation: learn with your Interior Master
Transcendental meditation is the art of training the mind. This definition could be very exact and clear, yet when one tries to meditate without a guide or teacher, achieving this art could be difficult, although not impossible. The master’s purpose, as well as that of our guides, is to show us the ...Read More
Meditation for children: reduce stress, anxiety, and fear
Stress, anxiety, fear, and other similar emotions are more and more frequent in children and youth. They are finding themselves more and more confronted with information and problems that never existed before. The use of internet, movies, television, combined with parents that are out of the house for long times or scarcely ...Read More
Meditation for removing the Anxiety
As previously explained in prior articles in this magazine, meditation is a state of concentrated attention on an external object, a though, consciousness itself, or on the very state of concentration. Some people call this practice contemplation. There are several ways in which to practice, and over time, some cultures have adopted ...Read More
Teaching children to Meditate on their Happiness
If there’s one thing parents want their children to achieve in adulthood, it is the ever desired happiness and fulfillment that we all search for, in one way or another. But how does one transmit something so valuable? You can undoubtedly begin to transmit this to them when they are children. Your ...Read More
Natural drugs for happiness
When someone says the word “drug”, we typically associate it with marijuana, opium, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, etc., especially if this drug promises to make us feel good, or promotes euphoric states of being. However, the next time you want to feel alive or full of vitality and ecstasy, remember that the brain ...Read More
Meditation to improve Health
Meditation encompasses the practice of maintained states of concentration on an external object, a thought, your own consciousness, or on the concentration itself. The word “meditation” comes from the Latin word “meditatio”, which originally referred to a type of intellectual exercise (source: Wikipedia). Meditation is a state of concentration (it can also ...Read More
Relaxation techniques for Deep Sleep
The mind is very powerful, and with it, we can create create all types of moments if we know proper techniques to control it. There are several ways to relax naturally, without having to turn to pills, syrups, or to even need to have the TV lull us to sleep. This habit ...Read More
Laughter Yoga: laugh about everything, everywhere (part 2)
Part two This type of therapy began with 5 people in 1995 and has since been gaining fame and cheerful acceptance around the world. Today, nearly 2500 clubs exist, where members come together to practice this activity, in places like India, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Soviet Union, France, Armenia, Italy, Belgium, ...Read More
Laughter Yoga: laugh about everything, everywhere. It doesn’t matter.
They say that 5 minutes of laughter are a substitute for pain killers without side effects. But it’s not only that: laughter boosts serotonin production, a hormone in the brain with calming effects, which causes us to feel liberated, and more dynamic and satisfied when we laugh. Laughter prevents heart attacks and ...Read More
Diet for the Nervous System
Lowering your levels of stress, anxiety, apathy, nervousness, depression, tiredness, etc. is truly possible with an effective diet for a healthy nervous system. Taking into account that in today’s world life is fast-paced and demanding, requiring our concentration, interest, calmness, happiness, a smile even when we don’t want to, it becomes necessary ...Read More
Immerse yourself in the Now to refresh Mind and Spirit
Refresh mind and Spirit. If you intently observe where your thoughts and attention are throughout the day, you will surely notice that very infrequently is your mind and your whole being truly present in that moment. Generally we’re thinking about things that happened yesterday, about what we’re going to do in a ...Read More
Apathy or a peaceful soul?
An absence of wants or desires can mean happiness, and this certainly brings tranquility and peace to the soul. If we emotionally draw back from the world for a moment, if we stop wanting and simply accept and witness life, our soul seems to fall into a state of profound relaxation. We ...Read More
A quick meditation to release tension and pain
Frequently throughout the day we don’t notice it, but tension accumulates in different parts of the body: the eyes, the scalp, the neck, the legs, etc. If our routine is the same everyday, tension can remain in the body until at some point - exhausted from carrying the accumulated stress - that ...Read More