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• Peace is found in the Balance between doing and letting go…

  16Jul
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  Contemplating and meditating on the ‘real-self’ accelerates this process of self-development and makes Liberation possible.

  ~ Arthava Veda

  

  Saraswati... goddess of secular and Divine Knowledge, the knowledge that leads to Liberation (moksha).

  As yogis, we are training ourselves to be observers, observing the Self.

  But what is the Self?  It is NOT our thoughts, our bodies, our feelings, although they are all part of us.

  It is the Awareness that is ABLE to Observe…  the Peace that is our true Nature.

  You can’t find it by talking, by writing, by constantly externalizing because it busies the Mind, disconnecting us further, from our Hearts and Truth.  This is the doing that we do too much of.

  You find it by going inward, by letting go, over and over and again, until there is nothing left to let go of.

  Then you are Free…

  (first published on Yoga Journal Online Community)

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  Tags: Consciousness, doing, female energy, Freedom, Ida, letting go, living, male energy, meditation, nadis, Observer, Pingala, self, Third Eye, Yang, Yin, yoga, Yogis

• ‘Losing the Ego’… and stepping into Bliss.

  23Dec
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  When the Ego comes into alignment with the Higher Self, it ‘disappears’.

  It doesn’t just happen one day all at once, you don’t just suddenly realize that it’s gone.  It happens moment by moment, one day at a time, one mini-realization after another…  that it isn’t there when it has been in the past, struggling, forcing, trying to do instead of letting go.  And in some moments you feel fear, find yourself wondering where it went and a little scared of this new place.  This is actually the Mind, with its attachments to the past and ‘how it used to be’ inside You, trying to measure, process, describe, compartmentalize, define (and thereby limit) the experience.  It can’t find the Ego, because it has merged with, and become indistiguishable from something bigger…  the limitless Higher Self (the Soul), which is continuous with cosmic Consciousness, the Divine, Shiva.

  But you sit with it and the fear goes away by itself - you fall back into the Flow.  Because you’ve already had tastes of Bliss and know the rewards are AWESOME compared with what you knew and what you were before…

  Om namah Shivaya!

  NAMASTE

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  Tags: alignment, ananda, bliss, cit, ego, higher, meditation, merging, realization, self, Shiva, Tantra, yoga

• Kapha, Pitta, Vata… and morning Yoga/Meditation practice.

  19Nov
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  Anyone else have trouble with morning practice?

  

  Mmmmmmm...

  (posted from the Yoga Journal community forum, 11/19/08)

  I am not a morning person. I admit it and my best friends can attest to it (one of them will only wake me up if she has a cup of coffee in her hand). Although I’m MUCH better than I used to be in the morning, I still have trouble finding the energy to do anything other than force myself out of bed and do my morning routine in a zombi-like state. I know a morning practice can influence your entire day for the positive and would love to have that, but it’s just so hard to get up and do it!

  Does anyone else struggle in the mornings? Any suggestions?

  - posted by altilden, today

  Many - but that would be a consultation. The best way to get over the Kapha hump (6 - 10am, it makes us feel slow, lethargic and attached to our beds and comforts), is to synchronize our body clocks with the Sun’s movements. This is one of the most important ritucharya (rituals in harmony with the Divine) in Ayurvedic wisdom. Getting to sleep before 10 ensures your Pitta time of night is used for its best purpose - processing the thoughts, emotions and sensory inputs from your day (we are only consciously aware of 20% of what we take in). This, and minimizing Vata (so you don’t wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble going back to sleep), gives you the clearest, most Peace-full mind for yoga and meditation in the early morning (the best prana time for practice). Other tools would be foods and habits that minimize Kapha and/or maximize the quality of sleep you get.

  NAMASTE

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  Tags: Ayurveda, meditation, morning, prana, sleep, yoga

• Time for yogis to get ELEMENTAL…

  31Aug
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  We’ve been working hard for more than 5000 years… too hard.
  

  The goal of Yoga is to expand our Consciousness and allow the Divine (Love) to flow freely through us, so that we ultimately heal ourselves, realize our full potential and become One with everything around us. Yogis have been battling their bodies, and their minds, for millenia, and with very few exceptions, sabotaging their very ability to achieve this Goal. This is because, many thousands of years ago, the paths of Yoga and Ayurveda diverged.

  

  The Chakras and the five Elements (earth, water, fire, air, space) - the fusion of Ayurvedic and Tantric wisdom.

  Ayurveda is a framework created by the Consciousness of yogic masters (rishis), but few yogis know that today. Let’s just say, it’s the missing link for not only raising Consciousness on the Planet, but saving it too. The integration of Ayurveda’s deep understanding of everything around us with the Yogi’s path holds the key to enabling the organic, compassionate and permanent evolution of human consciousness that will heal both ourselves and our Earth.

  It’s a lot simpler than it may seem, but still too complicated to put in one blog

  Let’s talk…

  NAMASTE

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  Tags: Ayurveda, compassion, Consciousness, Earth, elements, evolution, love, meditation, mind, save, Tantra, yoga