Breathing Exercise: The Tactical Breath (Box breathing)
This is a very ancient yogic breathing method made popular by Navy SEALs, they call it the tactical breath. I like this breathing method in particular because many other breathing methods could cau ...
Meditation Stories: The inexperienced woodcutter
Once upon a time, an unemployed man approached a timber merchant for a job but he was neither much educated nor did he have much experience however he had a strong and robust physique. So the merchant ...
Breathing Exercise: The Sigh of Relief (Stress Relief)
This breathing exercise is particularly good for stress relief. Whenever you lengthen the exhalation it stimulates the vagus nerve and the autonomic nervous to trigger a state called parasympathetic ...
Meditation Stories: Nature of Bondage and Liberation
Once a Sanga (spiritual gathering/group) of ascetics was travelling from one village to another and they came across a flooding river and on the bank of the river, they met a young beautiful woman, w ...
Breathing Exercise: Becoming Aware of the Breath
Breathing really matters. An average person breathes anywhere between 12 to 20 times a minute, which is around 23000 breaths every day viz more than 11000 litres of air. It is interesting to know tha ...
The Essence of Meditation
Meditation is not an abstract or remote state unnatural to humans. In fact, it is the most spontaneous and natural state which has been lost during conventional education and affairs of daily life. ...
Five ways MEDITATION Apps ruin us
Meditation and mindfulness have been around for thousands of years, with their origins in Dharmic traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. In recent years, however, there has there been a surge in p ...
What is Meditation? A philological and theological exploration.
The word ‘Meditation’ is one of the most misused rather abused words of the English vocabulary. It is so mistreated that we no longer know what it precisely means. For instance, it could mean mere mu ...