What is special about an embrace, the contact between one trunk touching the other trunk, staying there and having the arm caressing, perhaps squeezing the back of the other person?
When we're happy, we embrace that happiness. When we accomplish something together, we embrace. When we are sad, when one of us needs comfort, when…
Many people experience inner conflicts without even knowing that they affect their emotions, decisions, and sense of belonging. In this article, we will learn how to recognise an incoherence inside, understand its roots, and how awareness, spiritual practice, and patience can help to resolve it.
Recognising the Presence of Inner Conflicts
Inner conflicts often cause…
Fear can be a very constraining, limiting and even paralysing feeling. Tap into some of the options that therapy and spiritual practice offer in order to escape the grip of fear.
Fear can be nourished by Residues of Internalized Beliefs
Fears that have an authoritarian vibe about them can be internalized voices of authority…
Tantra offers us a “user manual” to expand our consciousness with the help of any available energy. Although purifying and transmuting through the crucible of suffering is generally known and accepted as a virtuous ordeal of a spiritual aspirant, it is just as important to explore our joy. Joy, too, has a valuable lesson.
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This article gives a brief comparison between happiness seen from the perspective of the ego and happiness seen from the perspective of the heart. The former is there by default, widely spread and unconsciously followed by the majority of the population. The latter takes courage and teaches us to reach the true human level.
The…
Fasting has been practised for centuries all over the planet and is dearly appreciated by yogis. Uriel, a senior teacher at Mahasiddha Yoga, sums up some contemporary scientific research in this domain, the benefits of fasting, some challenges to look out for, and also talks us through his experience of a 14-day fast.
Recent Research on the…