The right approach is not to control the mind but to let go. Even after years of practicing, thoughts may come during a meditation session. It is nothing wrong with it and the harder we …
Category: Meditation
Peace your mind
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How to Control the Mind During Meditation
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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness
A New Vision of Relating In today’s world, freedom is our basic condition, and until we learn to live with that freedom, and learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we are denying ourselves …
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Wild Wild Country (2018)
When the world’s most controversial guru builds a utopian city deep in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal. A true story.
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Transylvanian Sunrise
A mysterious scientist by the name of David Anderson made an eventful trip to Romania in 1999. Dr. Anderson, who is credited by the U.S. government as having developed advanced time-warp field technology, established diplomatic …
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Stay Present
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Mindfulness and Hypnosis
The Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience “With courage and creativity, Dr. Yapko explores the intersection of mindfulness and hypnosis and finds many fresh insights and techniques that will benefit psychotherapists and anyone interested in …
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Do We Experience Many Lives?
Once I was pushed into a debate if we, people have more than one life. Since my opponent was a conservative Christian lady, I gave it up before starting it, and I may say in …
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Meditation As A Lifestyle
Many of us practice mindfulness meditation. How is that work? We breathe in and out focusing on our breath. At any time when a thought arrives, we do not judge or argue with that thought. …
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Why Meditation Does Not Work For Me?
Many of us are trying to get into the habit of practicing meditation every day. However, we do not feel that it is working as expected. We have been reading amazing stories about enlightened people …
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner in relationships? Each time …
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Samadhi Part 1: Maya, the Illusion of the Self (2017)
Samadhi Part 1 (Maya the Illusion of the Self) is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi. Samadhi is an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or transcendent union that …
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How Do We Heal Our Bodies?
“Mens sana in corpore sano” is a Latin phrase, translated as “a healthy mind in a healthy body.” However, the western philosophers got it backward. Our minds are creating healthy bodies. Every disease we have …
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Be Here Now
In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal …
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Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001)
After Richard Alpert was fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting psychedelic drug research, he journeyed to India, found a guru and was renamed Ram Dass (“Servant of God”). Soon, Ram Dass became a spiritual …
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Understanding Our Mind: 51 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
A book by Thich Nhat Hanh A finalist for the 2001 Nautilus Award, Understanding Our Mind, is Thich Nhat Hanh’s profound look at Buddhist psychology with insights into how these ancient teachings apply to the modern …
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Naga the Eternal Yogi (2016)
This documentary is a research on the origins of yoga. A journey that will bring a young ascetic, belonging to the oldest Indian monastic order, to the most important religious festival for Hindu: The Kumbh …
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ON YOGA: The Architecture of Peace
ON YOGA: The Architecture of Peace is director Heitor Dhalia’s new film and his first documentary, it follows photographer Michael O’Neill as he talks to the great Yoga masters in India, Tibet, and New York.
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What Is Depression?
When we search this question over the Internet, we may find millions of answers. There are tons of medical clinics telling us that they treat depression and everything will be fine. The depression, from doctors’ …
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Awake: The Life of Yogananda
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda” is an unconventional biography about the East Indian mystic who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. Paramahansa Yogananda authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi” …
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How Do We Deal With Stress
We all know stress. At some point in our lives, we had or even currently have to deal with it even we wanted or not. Life can be very stressful, and we have to manage …
