Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness
by Sharon Salzberg: I’ve always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice […]
The Realities Of Reality With Guru Singh
Guru Singh is a celebrated third-generation yogi, master spiritual teacher, author, and musician… […]
Leonard Jacobson: True Awakening Pt 2
The enlightenment teachings of Leonard Jacobson. […]
Leonard Jacobson: True Awakening Pt 1
The enlightenment teachings of Leonard Jacobson. […]
Meditation Awakens Your Inner Joy
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: While in Greece we were invited to a local village dance. […]
Adyashanti on the concept of spiritual awakening
This is an excerpt from the interview with Adyashanti at the Science and Nonduality Conference […]
Deepak Chopra MD How To Combat Aging And Stress With Meditation
Deepak Chopra MD: Only a few decades ago, Western medicine viewed the body as a machine whose parts would inevitably break down until they could no longer be repaired… […]
Awaken Interviews Mary O’Malley Pt 2 – Fixing Yourself Versus Accepting Yourself
Donna Quesada: Mary, you bring up an interesting point. This dichotomy of fixing yourself versus accepting yourself, when one takes to the healing path. […]
Jean Shinoda Bolen – We Came to Make A Difference
Jean Shinoda Bolen explains that in the second stage of life a woman’s blood is retained to create a baby and that in the third stage her blood is retained to create wisdom. […]
Humanology Shorts: The Transformational Power of Self-Love – Donna Quesada
Donna Quesada explains why self-love is such an important component of healing, […]
An In-depth Interview With Life Coach Tony Robbins
by Marianne Schnall: When I recently met author, strategist and coach Anthony (Tony) Robbins backstage at a taping of Oprah Winfrey’s ground-breaking series Lifeclass, […]
You Can Create an Exceptional Life – Cheryl Richardson
Louise L. Hay and Cheryl Richardson discuss the book they wrote together […]
Find Your Peace in the Midst of Chaos
by By Ed and Deb Shapiro: Have you ever been in stuck in traffic on a busy street and felt like it was just too much or caught up in an argument that was going [...]
The Power of Concentration
by Maria Konnikova: Meditation and mindfulness: the words conjure images of yoga retreats and Buddhist monks. But perhaps they should evoke a very different picture: a man in a deerstalker, puffing away at a curved [...]
Love Until It Hurts – Ken Wilber
In “Love Until It Hurts,” Ken Wilber discusses the nature of women’s spiritual practice and suggests some of the important ways that it differs from men’s. […]
Eckhart Tolle on Creativity
by Eckhart Tolle: There’s a particular dimension where creativity arises. It’s a little bit like the wick burning the flame, […]
Western Buddhism: The 60 Year Lessons
It’s been about 60 years since the bulk of the Asian meditation masters arrived here — Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Vietnamese and so on. […]
Mindfulness – Anderson Cooper
Our lives are filled with distractions — email, Twitter, texting we’re constantly connected to technology, rarely alone with just our thoughts. […]
Queens Speech Debate In The House Of Lords & All-Party Group on Mindfulness
Lord Stone of Blackheath: My Lords, despite advancements in technology, with instant connectivity around the globe, referred to expertly by my noble friend Lord Giddens, […]
Conversation with Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all categories of human thought . . . . It’s as simple as that. -Joseph Campbell […]
100 Ways to Help You Live a Long and Healthy Life
Although some of the data in this post is dated it still has pertinent information for living a long and healthy life. […]
Felice Dunas on Sexuality, The Key to Life’s Vitality
Intimacy Educator and Holistic Healer: Felice Dunas, Ph.D., […]
Transform Your Mind, Change the World: Sharon Salzberg at TEDx
Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. […]
A Tribute to Yogananda
A tribute to the great Yogananda and his service and dedication to God and mankind. […]
13 Lessons From the Movie ‘Peaceful Warrior’
by Mark DeNicola: There are countless movies we could all think of that feature a great deal of truth, consciousness and even powerful messages… […]
Is Your Mind Like a Drunken Monkey? How Meditation Can Calm Your Mind
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Have you ever felt as if your mind was driving you crazy? Does the ch:atter in your head go on endlessly? […]
7 Women Transforming the World
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Marianne Williamson an uplifting and inspirational speaker and author of numerous New York Times best-sellers, including The Age of Miracles: […]
Jim Carrey’s Inspirational Commencement Address to the 2014 MUM Graduates
Watch Jim Carrey’s full commencement address that he gave to the Maharishi University of Management’s graduating class […]
Today’s Thoughts Are Tomorrow’s History
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Quite often we put too much importance on our thoughts and take them so seriously that they can lead us into all kinds of emotional turmoil. […]
Levels of Realization Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Jacobson: Question: What are we to make of the myriad of teachers out there today who claim or imply that they are self-realized. Are there levels of realization? […]
Changing the World From the Inside Out
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Why do people mistreat each other? After the shooting at Sandy Hook, the response of the NRA was that every schoolteacher should be armed. […]
How to Meditate Into Higher States of Consciousness
Sri Sri Ravishankar: We live most of our life through three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping. […]
Meditation & Sex Are Same to Your Brain
by Nadia Webb: A new study suggests that your brain reacts the same way to meditation as it does to sex. […]
Music and Spirituality
by Sri Chinmoy: It is quite possible to be both a musician and a Yogi. In Mother India there have been many saints, sages and spiritual Masters […]
Mindful Eating: A Mind-Body Approach to Carbohydrates
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.: In a world plagued by food shortage that are reaching crisis level, carbohydrates are the easiest salvation and yet the greatest temptation […]
Why be a Vegetarian?
by Swami Satchidananda: Once I was asked the question: “Do the Vedas teach vegetarianism?” The answer is, there is no Veda without the mention of ahimsa (non-violence). […]
BKS Iyengar practicing Astanga Vinyasa yoga
This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing BKS Iyengar practicing Astanga Vinyasa yoga. […]
What is Mind-Body Therapy? – Anodea Judith, Ph.D
by Anodea Judith, Ph.D.: Many are the clients who come to me from years of traditional therapy and say, […]
Gary Zukav: The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav: The path to understanding the soul is through the heart, not the mind. […]
Love, Sex, And Awakening – Margot Anand
In an interview Margot Anand explains How Meditation Impacts Sexuality. […]
Pema Chödrön: Fear and Fearlessness
Pema Chödrön: describes a liberating way to relate to our fears: not as something to try to get rid of or cast out, but as something we became very intimate with. […]
25 Superhuman Powers You Can Gain Through Practicing Yoga and Meditation
By Dean Radin, Phd: In order to attain any of the 28 siddhis you must regularly practice yoga and meditation or be born with a natural predisposition for such things… […]
Awaken Interviews St. Teresa of Avila – Union of the Whole Soul with God
Awaken: In your work, you so often speak of the importance of humility when traveling the spiritual path. Why is this so important to our spiritual growth? […]
A Kundalini Yoga Meditation to Burn Inner Anger – Donna Quesada
by Donna Quesada: I remember doing this meditation during a training retreat and feeling like I would die if I held up my arm one more minute! […]
Meditation
Meditation is a mental exercise that trains attention and awareness. Its purpose is often to curb reactivity to one’s negative thoughts and feelings, […]