Your Spiritual Journey

Your Spiritual Journey

This article contains excerpts from Your Spiritual Journey—A guide to unfolding your divine self by Manisha Melwani The spiritual journey is not a journey in time and place. It is a movement in consciousness. —Swami Chinmayananda Your spiritual journey begins when you...
3 Obstacles in Meditation and How to Overcome Them

3 Obstacles in Meditation and How to Overcome Them

The mind itself presents the biggest obstacles in meditation. Outer things such as the proper posture, place, time and seat can be easily rectified to facilitate your practice. But once you sit down and try to meditate, you realise that your own mind poses the...
6 Simple Strategies to Calm Your Mind for Meditation

6 Simple Strategies to Calm Your Mind for Meditation

Continued from The 2 Obstacles That Stand in the Way of a Peaceful Meditation published Nov 14, 2019. Creating a peaceful outer atmosphere helps in preparing yourself for meditation but it doesn’t guarantee that you will be peaceful inwardly. Your own mind poses the...
How to Focus Your Mind in Meditation

How to Focus Your Mind in Meditation

In my last article, The very first discipline for meditation, I highlighted the importance of practicing how to keep the body very still. When the body is kept still, the mind quiets down to some extent. The next challenge is to train the mind to stay focused on only...
The Very First Discipline For Meditation

The Very First Discipline For Meditation

The very first discipline for your meditation practice  is training your body to sit very still. It may sound like a simple thing, but it not so easy to do in the beginning. You may want to relax your body by doing some simple stretches. Then, sit on the floor or a...
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