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Love & Prayer
LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE looks back on a life of learning about love in its many forms and faces, from the most human to the most esoteric, and what it means to him that love is the source of all that exists.
Yoga and Mental Health
HIS HOLINESS the 14th DALAI LAMA met with UNESCO Artist for Peace, Dr. GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, on May 8, 2023. Evoking her commitments to UNESCO, Dr. Kessous asked about issues such as equality and women’s rights, intercultural dialogue, the societal role of art and the importance of yoga for mental health. Here is an excerpt from the conversation.
THE JOURNEY OF Total Health
DAAJI speaks about the role of the heart in healing, and the important aspects of a healthy life. He explains the concept of total health and how we can attain it through yoga.
The Miracle of life
Six years ago, A. PADMAJI found herself confronting a frightening health diagnosis. Today she is in remission, and she shares her journey and her gratitude for the role allopathic and complementary medicine and Heartfulness played in her recovery. This uplifting story is a testament to her faith.
Yoga and Ayurveda for Health
VALENTINA TSAREV, SRIVIDYA VARADARAJAN, UTTARA VENUGOPAL, and UMA NATARAJAN are all yoga teachers who have experienced the benefits of yoga and Ayurveda at a young age. Here they share some key features of their use for health.
Dealing with Thoughts
DAAJI dispels the myth that thoughts in meditation are bad, and helps us understand how to accept our thoughts in a constructive way, eventually leading to periods of thoughtlessness.
The Neuroscience of Meditation
Dr. SARA LAZAR is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is on the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. Here she speaks about how meditation impacts the brain.
WE TRULY ARE ALL CONNECTED
DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation to the Heartfulness international conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam in December 2022. In part 2, he shares more about coherence at the individual, group, and global levels.
In Search of a New World
SNEHAL DESHPANDE enlightens us on how pre-conception, conception and pregnancy, and the first year of life affect our later psychology and physical well-being.
Peer Pressure
SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN shares some wise words and his personal experience of managing peer pressure when he was at college.
How To Manage in Times of CRISIS
DR. ICHAK ADIZES has been helping organizations to manage change for over forty years. His recent publication, How to Manage in Times of Crisis, is based on material from his talks during 2008 addressing the world financial crisis. But it is even more relevant today when human crises are multi-dimensional.
Yogic Lifestyle & Well-being
EDDIE STERN has been practicing and studying yoga since he was fifteen, and was drawn by India and the yogic life. Here he explains the science of yoga, and how the practices affect both physical and mental well-being.
How to Make the Most of Life
DAAJI explores the topic of destiny, including our own role in determining our future, as well as the roles other people, circumstances, and the environment play. He shares with us some practices and attitudes that help to make the most out of life.
The mind according to Patanjali
DAN ALDER explores the topic of mental well-being during a Yoga4Unity 2023 masterclass. He asks: how does the sage Patanjali view the mind? What does Patanjali believe to be our potential, what gets in the way of us attaining that potential, and what solutions are offered to us to remove those barriers?
Breathing and Moving
DAAJI shares some simple practices for mental and physical well-being.
You're On Your Own, Kid
Mamata Venkat Subramanyam explains how heart-based meditative practices have helped her turn feeling lonely into savoring alone time
WILD Intelligence
ELIZABETH DENLEY is currently living in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia, surrounded by natural forest. Why is this experience of living so close to Nature worth sharing? It has reawakened a more natural wild intelligence in her, the wild intelligence she remembers from childhood, which offers solutions to the current crises humanity faces
THE SCIENCE OF HEART COHERENCE
In December 2022, DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation at the international Heartfulness conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam. Here we share some highlights from his talk
Being Gentle is Being Light
VICTOR KANNAN explores the nature of gentleness, and why it brings lightness in its wake
Create the Habit of Happiness
STANISLAS LAJUGIE explains how we can cultivate the habit of happiness, even though our nervous system is wired for negativity. He gives us 3 simple steps to cultivate a happier disposition
The Future Is the Heart
DR. ICHAK ADIZES leads us through an evolutionary journey from pre-human times up to today. He looks at what qualities and attributes leaders have needed, and he predicts why, in the future, it will be the heart
Where do people find you?
This is how DR. ZACH BUSH deconstructs his sense of self. It could just be the medicine you need, too
SPIRITUALITY AND ABSTRACTION: A JOURNEY BEYOND THE CONCRETE
KISHORE DEBNATH explores how science, art, and spirituality all take us beyond the physical world into subtler realms where we must understand and describe phenomena through abstraction
Happy Mothers Make Happy Families
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from the chapter on Principle 4: Happy Mothers Make Happy Families
Cold and Flu BABUJI'S NATURAL REMEDIES
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his associates about the simple natural remedies that he learned and also discovered during his life in northern India. This month we share one of his remedies for the common cold
Travel Light
DAAJI shares two simple practices to remove heaviness from your system, become light and carefree, and reduce your thought footprint in the world
COMIC joy
GRANT SNIDER began drawing and writing before he knew what he was doing. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Kansas City Star, The Best American Comics 2013, and all across the internet. You can explore his work at http://www. incidentalcomics.com/. Here he is interviewed by KASHISH KALWANI about what inspires him and brings him such success.
How to Protect Yourself from EMR
Last month, TERRAN DAILY explained how electromagnetic pollution can negatively impact us all. Here, she explores some practical measures we can all take to protect our families from its adverse effects.
Balance
ALANDA GREENE explores how to bring balance into a polarized world, even the polarized nature of the environment, climate change and politics. It all starts with us as individuals.
Kindness Makes a World of Difference
After thyroid cancer, Crohn's disease, and other autoimmune diseases defined her twenties and thirties, FRANCESCA GROSSMAN was left feeling alone with chronic pain. This invisible companion affected her whole life intimacy, motherhood, friendship, work, and mental health - but after more than twenty years she started talking to others and discovered that her story was not unique, and neither were her feelings of loneliness and seclusion. Francesca decided to help her fellow chronic pain sufferers feel a little less alone, and her latest book, Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain, is a testament to their ability to live and love with chronic pain.