Stirring up Mud (Part 1)

Something needs to stir up the calm mind that we have developed, similar to stirring up mud on the bottom of a pond so that we don't become confused and believe that the mud is no longer there.

The Benefits of a Meditation Teacher

In many walks of life when we are learning something for the first time, we will take the help of a teacher. For example, if we want to learn to play the piano, we will find a good piano teacher. Similarly, to make the fastest progress in meditation and the spiritual life, it is advisable to take the help of a spiritual teacher. A qualified spiritual teacher acts like a personal guide, showing us how to enter into deep meditation.

Top 7 Tips for Inner Peace

Tips for attaining inner peace. Value peace more than anything else. What we give our attention to will generate a certain force. If we feel inner peace is the most important thing then we will make it become a reality. If we want inner peace we will not allow anger and frustration to rob us of our equanimity.

Meditation Secrets - 5 Ways To Deepen Your Meditation

Over the years it is very easy to forget some of the basic tenets we were taught when we started meditating and some key rules were never actually told to us at all. If you have been meditating for some time and have hit a plateau, have a look at these five tips to re-charge your meditation schedule.

Guide To Meditation

Meditation is not easy. If you think that closing the eyes and trying to stop the mind is meditation, then you can try it. But you will not be successful unless you have developed very strong will power. Without the power of anashakti, vairagya or non-attachment, meditation is very difficult to practice. However, unless and until that happen you will have to work through the practices systematically, stage by stage.

Stirring Up Mud - Part 2

Our body is reminiscent of a comfortable house built near a raging river where we must live, knowing well enough that a flood could wash it away at any moment. It would be foolish not to consider escape routes when living in a house threatened with disaster, because when the time comes to leave, how would we be ready to get out in time? Therefore, since we can't rely on our impermanent body, shouldn't we invest in something we can trust, something that will be there for us when our body fails, which is not long from now, as it's beginning to rain and the water is rising.

Improving Your Meditation

Some tips on how to make your meditation more successful and more powerful including reading books about spiritual masters, trying new exercises and placing great intensity on your meditation

Liberation of Consciousness

What is consciousness? It is something we all have to some extent, some people seem to have more of it than others, and if we get hit on the head too hard, we lose if for a while. But is it something we can cultivate and grow? Can we expand or somehow strengthen our consciousness?

7 Reasons to Start Meditation

Meditation can help us to cultivate a real abiding happiness. Meditation allows us to be in tune with our inner self. When we live in the heart we can experience a sense of oneness with others, this brings a happiness that does not depend upon outer events.

Relax Your Way to Success

Having coached hundreds of successful people there's one common thing I've found to be true. Success always has a price. All too often that price is bad health, broken relationships or regret. The secret to making sure this doesn't happen to you as you build your ideal life is to learn the art of relaxing your way to success.

Top Five Acid Reflux Prescription Medications

For some people, finding the right acid reflux prescription medications is something that turns out to be very simple, but for others, there may be some trial and error involved.

8 Tips To Keep Your Mental Health

Unfortunately the effects of mental illness on health, social life and productivity in the United States and throughout the world has long been absolutely underestimated. Studies in many different countries all over the world have shown that mental illness is becoming one of the most often illnesses in our modern life.

Meditation and Belief in God

No question has given man so much thought as to the nature and existence of God. Throughout the age's great minds and thinkers have tried to either prove or disprove the existence of God. From Descartes to Dawkins, thinkers have tried to convince others of, either the existence or non existence of God. From a spiritual point of view we can examine why people may find belief in God and what this actually means.