You’ve heard of the yamas—specifically ahimsa, satya, asteya, and brahmacharya. The last yama is aparigraha, or non-attachment. But what is the principle of aparigraha?
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Monday Meditation: A Lunar New Year Meditation for Good Fortune
The Lunar New Year is the beginning of a calendar year where months are marked by moon cycles. Now that we’ve entered a new year, we can look forward to planting seeds of good health, wellbeing, and prosperity. Here’s a lunar new year meditation for good fortune.
Monday Meditation: Send Loving Kindness to Your Partner
Integrating loving kindness in your meditation practice helps improve emotional health, increases compassion and empathy, and heals your relationships. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here’s a meditation that shows you how to send loving kindness to your partner.
How to Improve Your Relationships By Being Mindful
Mindfulness can help improve your relationships. Whether it means attracting the right partner, developing strong friendships, or healing your marriage, practicing mindfulness can positively impact your current and future relationships. If you’d like to learn how to improve your relationships by being mindful, read on!
Monday Meditation: A Meditation Script for Appreciating Yourself
Taking time to appreciate yourself can improve not only your relationships with others, but it can also brighten your outlook on life itself. Below is a meditation script for appreciating yourself.
Does Mindfulness Mean Controlling Your Thoughts?
Mindfulness meditation can seem intimidating and inaccessible. Sitting down for several minutes at a time can seem unappealing to most people, especially since it entails confronting your thoughts. But does mindfulness mean controlling your thoughts?
Contrary to popular belief, mindfulness means letting go of your thoughts and allowing your mind to simply run free. When we realize that it is the ego that traps us and that our true identity is our pure consciousness, we release ourselves from our fears, traumas, and negative thought patterns.
Here’s a little breakdown, for you to understand it better.
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