4 Moving Meditations to Still Your Mind
When you consider a practice of meditation, you probably envision yourself with eyes closed, sitting cross-legged and immobile. Yet many spiritual exercises use postures and movement as paths to contemplation. “It’s multitasking, but in the best way,” says tai chi expert Bill Douglas. Try one of these tools to create your own natural rhythm.
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7 Ways Hugging Makes You Healthier and Happier
For decades we’ve known that babies won’t thrive without physical holding and affection. There is little that will comfort or reassure small children as well as a hug from a loved one. Yet, it is not uncommon for parents to stop hugging their kids as they reach puberty.
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How To Meditate If You Can't Sit Still
When you’re anxious or depressed, sometimes the last thing you feel like doing is sitting down with your thoughts. But what many of us don't realize is that we don't have to sit still to meditate!
Yoga For People Who Don’t Do Yoga
This 10-step guide is for one of two people — those who want to do yoga but haven’t started yet, and those who really can’t stomach the idea of actually doing it at all. Maybe you haven’t found the right class or teacher, or perhaps the thought of doing a slow, sweaty interpretive dance with a bunch of crunchy granolas isn’t the ideal way to spend your time.
Interview with Robert Pirsig: Author of Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
At 78, Robert Pirsig, probably the most widely read philosopher alive, can look back on many ideas of himself. There is the nine-year-old-boy with the off-the-scale IQ of 170, trying to work out how to connect with his classmates in Minnesota. There is the young GI in Korea picking up a curiosity for Buddhism while helping the locals with their English. There is the radical, manic teacher in Montana making his freshmen sweat over a definition of 'quality'. There is the homicidal husband sectioned into a course of electric-shock treatment designed to remove all traces of his past. There is the broken-down father trying to bond with his son on a road trip. There is the best-selling author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, offering solutions to the anxieties of a generation. And there is, for a good many years, the reclusive yachtsman, trying to steer a course away from cultish fame.
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5 Ways Meditation May Be The Cure For Bipolar Disorder
In the last decade, medical science has discovered something already well known within many cultures: meditation can be a potent part of any holistic healing program for people with bipolar disorder.
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Robin Williams: A Comedic Genius A Staggering Talent and A Big Heart
Robin Williams was a superb, mercurial standup comic with a staggering talent for improv and verbal riffing, though his movie career finally evolved into an intriguing split – sugary sentimentality or an ambiguous, menacing darkness. Something similar happened with Steve Martin and Jerry Lewis. The “Mr Hyde” in Robin Williams’s movie persona was well known.
Meet the Mindful Traveller
Over the summer we know that a lot of you will be taking a break from the everyday and going on vacation (that's a holiday to us Brits).
Interview with Jonathan Cainer: Star of the Stargazers
The day I am due to meet Jonathan Cainer, I consult his website for clues as to how it might go. Cainer.com, which is distinct from his syndicated newspaper columns, his 60p-a-minute phonelines and his soon-to-be-built Museum of Psychic Experience, offers daily, weekly and yearly forecasts, as well as relationship guides and a section entitled Ancient Lost Knowledge, in which the astrologer invites us to look at the meaning of a "connected cosmos". For the week starting January 10, Cainer advises me and all other Sagittarians that, in the event of a downpour, we should be careful where we take shelter: we may leave with less than we went in with. Perhaps he will divest me of my scepticism; or perhaps I will leave my notebook behind.
How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces
You probably know already that organic foods are good for you. The major problem most people have with organic food is the expense. However, there are several different ways to radically reduce the cost of your food.
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