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03.28.09
Posted in The New Age Way at 7:28 pm by admin
The Christmas wrapping paper mountain keeps growing higher. Shining foil, patterned paper, bows large and small, ribbons of fiber and of fabric, torn cartons and Styrofoam packing shapes, are all stacking and spilling on one side of the living room. The children are shrieking with delight. They can not open the packages fast enough.
Suddenly the frenzy is over.
Christmas dinner or Christmas breakfast or a visit to the next house is on the menu. Hurry, hurry, hurry, the holiday so long awaited will pass so fast.
Toys are strewn everywhere. Several are already damaged.
A few were passionately hoped for. The rest are the product of worried parents, grandparents, friends and relations, who fled up and down the aisles, cramming shopping carts, asking themselves repeatedly, “Is it enough? Did I get them enough?”
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The pizza counter assistant from the local high school smiles at the customer as she rings up his charge. “That will be $14.05,” she says cheerfully. “Great,” says her customer. “Here’s fifteen dollars, and I’ll give you a nickel as well.” He watches in amazement as she begins to perspire in the air conditioning, struggling to figure out how much change she needs to give him. At last he gently leans over the counter. “The difference between $14.05 and $15.05 is one dollar, Miss. That’ll be just fine,” he whispers. He doesn’t want to embarrass her.
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The young couple in the BMW dealership clearly wants the car. With the features they’ve chosen, the price tag will be $53,000. After the customer representative has done his paperwork, he pushes it across the desk to them.
“You just hold that car for us,” they tell him. “We’re going to refinance our condo and come back for it.” “Are you sure that’s a good idea?” asks the rep? He knows from his conversations and the paperwork that their joint income is less than the cost of the car…
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Alot is being reported in the general media today about how the richest society in the world is financially illiterate. “We know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” says Bruce Bradshaw, a financial advisor whose firm is headquartered in a wealthy lakes area in Southeast Wisconsin. Just look at these three little stories. Don’t you know a story just like one of these? The savings rate in this nation is at minus zero. Children who have so much often actually appreciate very little. What a sharp contrast that is to another story that a friend of mine told me recently.
She was reading women’s correspondence from the late 1800’s. A teenager was writing to her aunt thanking her for her Christmas gifts, which meant the world to her. “Thank you for the orange and the hair ribbons,” she wrote. “They made me so very happy and I will never, ever forget this Christmas and your generosity.”
“That young woman understood the value of the gifts given,” said Mr. Bradshaw. “It is my opinion that we adults MUST, MUST teach the children we love the values of a well lived life…values that carry no pricetag.”
Simone Nathan
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01.15.09
Posted in The New Age Way at 3:22 am by admin
Some find the term, “monkey mind”, upsetting, derogatory, and insulting. This is a shame, as the point is lost, the ego is involved, and a natural human defense goes up. After all, we are supposed to be the “king of the primates,” aren’t we?
The first time I heard the expression, “monkey mind,” in regard to meditation, I thought of Swayambhunath Stupa, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sometimes, this is named, the “monkey temple,” and it made me laugh inside, as monkeys need supervision in human settings. The picture of unsupervised monkeys got into my head, and I was suppressing laughter during a serious conversation.
Monkeys can be nuisances, when allowed to roam without some guidance, and it is the same with the untrained mind that runs from topic to topic, without getting much accomplished. So please don’t waste time being offended by the term, and try to look at the comical side.
When you allow yourself to enjoy life, and try not to take anything too seriously, you can see that monkeys don’t have it so bad after all. Very often, the human mind spends too much time defending, worrying, posturing, influencing, fearing, and feeling embarrassed, to enjoy life to its fullest potential.
In fact, you are not your mind. You are responsible for your actions, but many things happen in the thought process before you do take action. For example: when you think, images and options are created. As a result of those images, you get a physical feeling somewhere around your heart.
Whether the feeling is, good or bad, you process it into action, or treat it as a fleeting thought that passes and may be forgotten. So if you have a fleeting evil thought and it passes – should you waste time feeling guilty about it? The natural safeguard for ethical behavior is your heart or “gut feeling.” This is the best indicator of wrong or right.
Mankind has the ability to influence the universe, and create different realities, but separating what is sacred, from what is evil, has been a dilemma for thousands of years. The disconnection from your inner self, nature, and God, has led to excessive confusion.
Thank God for meditation; it allows you to harness the power of the mind, settle down, and focus, on one subject at a time. If you take the time for a daily meditation practice, your decision-making process will be much more controlled and clear. The end result will be to look at the monkey with much more respect, appreciation, and a bit of humor.
Paul Jerard is a co-owner and the director of Yoga teacher training at: Aura Wellness Center, in North Providence, RI. He has been a certified Master Yoga teacher since 1995. He is a master instructor of martial arts, with multiple Black Belts, four martial arts teaching credentials, and was recently inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness to children, adults, and seniors in the greater Providence area. Recently he wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for You? For Yoga students, who may be considering a new career as a Yoga teacher. http://www.yoga-teacher-training.org/index.html
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01.12.09
Posted in The New Age Way at 5:10 am by admin
Posture:
You may select a posture of meditation in which you can sit comfortably and steadily for a long period. The posture of meditation may be ‘full lotus-posture,’ ‘half lotus-posture,’ ’simple cross-legged posture, or ‘diamond-posture’ (Vajrasan).
Mudras : Position of the Hands
There are two alternatives: one position is called Jnana Mudra. Keep your right hand on the right knee and left hand on the left knee, keeping the palms turned up. Let the tip of the index finger touch the tip of the thumb with a slight pressure between them. Keep the other fingers straight.
The alternative position is called Brahma Mudra. Keep both the hands on your lap one above the other by keeping the palms upturned. Let the left palm remain under the right one.
Keep your eyes softly closed.
Recitation of Arham:
Start the meditation session with the repeated recitation of the mantra Arham.
Exhale fully, then inhale completely. By slow exhalation begin the intonation of the mantra. Concentrating your mind on the navel, produce the sound “A” for about two seconds. While concentrating your mind on the Centre of Bliss situated near the heart, produce the sound “Rha” for about four seconds. And lastly taking your mind upward from throat to the Centre of Knowledge situated at the top of the head, produce the sound “mmm” for about six seconds. Inhale deeply again and repeat the same exercise nine times.
Visualize that the sound waves are criss-crossing and weaving an oval-shaped web of armor all around you, protecting yourself from the evil effects of the external vibrations.
Recitation of the Mahaprana Dhvani:
Alternatively start meditation with the repeated recitation of the Mahaprana Dhvani. Exhale fully, then inhale deeply as long as you can. By slow exhalation, produce the sound “mmm” through the nostrils like buzzing of a bee, while concentrating your mind on the Centre of Knowledge situated on the top of the head and keeping the mouth closed. Inhale deeply again and repeat the same exercise nine times.
The Aphorism of the Aim:
“Sampikkhae Appagamappaenam”
Perceive and realize the deepest and highest levels of your consciousness by your conscious mind. See yourself through yourself. For perception and realization of the self, practice preksha meditation.
Resolve for Meditation:
“I am practicing preksha meditation for the purification of my mind (psyche)”. (Repeat three times)
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01.04.09
Posted in The New Age Way at 1:20 am by admin
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48); “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12).
We weren’t born to fritter away these grand lives. One of the most beautiful narratives in the Bible is the poignant story of Mary and the alabaster box (John 12:3). Jesus gave Mary a new life; she was born again to The Way of love and sacrifice and devotion, and what better way to show it than by anointing her Savior. Jesus took a consumed life and conserved it. He charted a new reality for Mary, His reality wherein is Truth and Life. For this she anointed Him with gratitude and submission.
And shouldn’t we all? Has He done any less for us? We have been given much, much more, too, for He has charted our reality, as well. What He has given us in talents and possessions isn’t important. What we do with what we have is crucial. God doesn’t waste His irreplaceable time on worthless materials. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart…” (Jeremiah 1:5). Knowing this should encourage us to be humble and it should help motivate us to live worthier lives.
Contrary to common opinion, privilege doesn’t have ranks, whether it is physical, mental, or spiritual privilege; rather, it has responsibilities. Above all, we are responsible for and to each other. “Our world at the present time is largely directed by criminally irresponsible adventurers and cynical and complacent men who have grown old in the ways of self interest. Unless their place is taken by men of understanding and humility, whose guiding principle is love, the world of man is doomed. The life of every human being is a part of our own, for we are involved in mankind. Each one of us is responsible for the other. It was Dostoyevsky who said, `Each of us is responsible for everything to everyone else.’ That is what we now know. It is up to us to do something with that knowledge” (Ashley Montagu, On Being Human).
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01.01.09
Posted in The New Age Way at 5:52 am by admin
Shame is, next to anger, one of the most corrosive, energy depleting and toxic negative emotions that one can harbor in one’s body.
If you reconnect to this emotion inside you as you consider an event or incident that has “imprinted” you with this toxicity I think you will recognize the consequences of having this inside you.
They include such things as:
1. Feeling hateful towards one’s self.
2. Feeling like a horrible or incorrigible human being.
3. Feelings of terrible guilt and remorse.
4. Perhaps feeling responsible for having caused the unfortunate incident that you are recalling.
5. Feeling like there is nothing that you can do to change or reverse things.
6. Feeling hopelessly flawed or bad.
7. Perhaps feeling like an outcast, or like avoiding or engaging others.
8. Perhaps a feeling of anxiety at the thought of making any further decisions for yourself in your life i.e. paralyzed, and so on.
Clearly, this short list is evidence that this emotion, that many call “shame”, is highly toxic to you. Is it not?
The net result of carrying this toxicity in your body is that it literally “seduces” you into “hating” yourself. The consequence of hating yourself manifests as many harmful behaviors that you choose to unleash on yourself i.e. poor care over your emotional or physical health (i.e. smoking, excessive drinking, use of drugs or other substances etc.), poor choice of relationships, lack of protective boundaries against others who are trying to harm or exploit you, and other “suicidal” tendencies.
The interesting thing about this toxicity we call “shame” is that many have allowed themselves to be seduced into thinking that it is supposed to:
Help one become aware of their flaws or mistakes, so that,
They can be avoided or corrected in future, so that,
One can learn to “do it right” the next time, so that,
One can feel better i.e. like a good human being, happy, at peace, calm, liking one’s self and feeling like a worthy human being.
In other words many “think” unconsciously that “shame” makes them feel like a good human being, happy, at peace, calm, liking one’s self and feeling like a worthy human being.
Does that feel right to you?
Sounds ridiculous when I put it that way doesn’t it?
Well, if you see that, you have taken the first step to completely eradicating this toxicity from your life once and for all.
The benefits that will accrue from this will be such things as: reclaiming your vital life energy, your health, your self esteem, your self worth, a sense of “I’m OK”, and much more.
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