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  • 5 Ways To Bring Mindfulness To Your Yoga Practice

    by Vivek Roy

    It might be extremely simple for you to strike the yoga poses, however, it as easy to always be mentally present too. With the constant increase in stress, it not quite likely to be mindful with a mind full, as we are always preoccupied with a number of thoughts in the head. You will certainly find it hard to completely eliminate your thoughts or even reduce their flashes in mind.

    The mind is perpetually active, even when we sleep, certain parts of the mind are active which is why we dream and turn sides and positions. There are even some people who sleep talk, walk, end up crying and even laughing, all while they’re fast asleep and have no idea of these activities.

    So how do we proceed? Since leaving it as-it-is isn’t an option.

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  • USA, Mass Shootings and Reaching Higher

    By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

    The last few days have been filled with NEWS about the Mass Shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Watching TV coverage I over heard the Mayor of Dayton indicate that this shooting was the 250th Mass Shooting in the USA; while it is difficult to determine how accurate this number and there is discussion about what constitutes a mass shooting, clearly, we have an ongoing problem that has not been effectively addressed by any segment of our society. Again, sadly many are dead/injured and many others suffering at the hands of 2 very misguided individuals.

    This problem does not have a simple, one or 2 step solution: it will take years and people working on different levels of our society to turn this around; limiting sale of fire arms and back ground checks on gun purchases is a beginning.  These two changes will not get the whole job done but are a long sought starting place. Comprehensive action is very late, must be put forward quickly and relatively free of selfish interest. Finally- we must work together. (more…)

  • Wake Up America

    by Gabriel of Urantia

    Dear America,

    The Irish philosopher and statesmen Edmund Burke, around the time of our own Constitution, said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”  This very well may have been a truth that George Washington and other writers of our Constitution read, before they wrote our Constitution in 1776.

    It does indeed take good men and women to speak out against tyranny and racism in order to curb it and hopefully stop it in its tracks. How did we get to this place where possibly half our country is crying out “send them back to where they belong”? — echoing the cries of the President of the United States, which at one time was the office and mandate that had the respect of all the peoples of our planet, and our country has the writing on the Statue of Liberty which says:

    “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” (more…)

  • Buddha’s Young Life

    by Vivek Roy

    Here is a brief sketch of the life of the Buddha also known as Siddhartha, Gautama, and Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism. (more…)

  • Trumped-up wars

    By William T. Hathaway

    “Obey me or die!”
    the orange-haired man threatens the world.
    “My drones know you’re home,
    and my missiles don’t miss.
    I’m Commander in Chief, CinC for short.
    I’ll sink you into the sea, fry you crisp,
    burn you to dust with the push of a button.
    I’ll overthrow your governments,
    strangle your economies,
    jail your refugees.
    I’m the trumpet of doom,
    I’ll turn your land into a tomb!”

    CinC, this may shock you,
    but there are higher commanders than you,
    and to Them we appeal for peace
    and deliverance from you:

    “Jaya Jaya, Vinayaka
    Hara Kailash
    Durga Rakshakari
    Rudra Shanti
    Vidjayante Taram

    Protect us from the orange fire
    of the orange demon
    and all his NATO agents of orange.
    Disembody these demons, vanish them,
    banish them into the dungeon of perdition
    their deeds have built for them.

    Om namah Shivaya”

    ***

    William T. Hathaway’s first novel, A World of Hurt, won a Rinehart Foundation Award, and his new one, Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness, deals with the environmental crisis as an old woman and a young man battle the corporations controlling our shrinking water supplies: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/cosmicegg-books/our-books/wellsprings. He and his wife, Daniela, direct the Transcendental Meditation Center in Oldenburg, Germany.

  • 3 Steps on How to Impress Your Boss Using Astrology

    by Margarita Celeste

    Astrology is no longer relegated to the “fortune teller” status that it had back in the day. In the last two years, the world has steadily moved towards embracing this magical art. It has mainly come through Millennials and Generation X leading the way; generations searching for a little more meaning in the world.

    Although Astrology is mainly known through horoscope reading in the daily newspaper, or most recently through online sources, it is gathering speed. More and more people are learning to read their “birth charts”. From business to love and relationships, to planting the right seeds at the right time, astrology has become an indispensable tool for the modern generation.

    We can totally use astrology to get ahead in the workplace, simply by understanding a little of how it works and the applying that to our careers; specifically, to impress our boss. It’ll take a few hours of practice, but by the end of it, you’ll be the envy of the office with your seemingly magical way of knowing exactly what makes your boss tick.

    Read on to find out 3 ways to impress your boss using Astrology:

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  • Abortion: Islamic and Jewish views on when a human soul enters a human fetus

    by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

    I am a Rabbi who frequently writes articles about the close connections between Judaism and Islam for Islamic web sites as well as for Jewish web sites; and 31 articles previously published by Islamic web sites are in my book ‘Judaism and Islam as Synergistic Monotheisms: A Reform Rabbi’s Reflections on the Profound Connectedness of Islam and Judaism’.

    The following article appeared this week on the Islamicity web site; and on The Times of Israel:

    All the continuing political disputes over abortion in the USA and other countries ignore the fundamental religious issue: when does the fetus in the womb of a woman’s body become a human fetus? At conception it is a living physical body, but when does this soul become a spiritual human being? (more…)

  • Stress and Worry World Wide

    by Rabbi Allen S. Maller
    People around the world are becoming more angry, stressed and worried, according to a 2019 Gallup Global Emotions Report survey of some 150,000 people interviewed in over 140 countries.
    A third said they suffered stress, while at least one in five experienced sadness or anger.
    If you think that stress is directly connected with unemployment and violence; look carefully at the 5 most negative and the 5 most positive countries in the world. The most negative countries were Chad, Niger, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Iran. Makes sense.

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  • 5 Yoga Asanas You Should Follow With Your Family On Weekends

    by Manmohan Singh

    Summary: Weekends are not only meant to sleep till late, eat junk, or take a stroll at a mall. Alter it with yoga, making it healthy and enticing for your family. Learn about five asanas to follow with your family on weekends.

    Is there anything better than spending time with family over the weekends where you can have fun, talk, remember old times, and lots more. Relaxing at home after a tiring weekend is simply an amazing feeling, but during those two days, most of us endure hours of lying in bed watching TV, keep on munching food out of boredom or do nothing progressive.

    Make your weekend fun with your family with yoga. Practice some amazing poses with them creatively, which you might have learned during 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bangalore or at a yoga retreat in Dharmashala. (more…)

  • The Quantum World and The Physics of Healing

    by Gabriel of Urantia

    Excerpted from the book Teachings on Healing From a Spiritual Perspective co-authored by Gabriel of Urantia available at  https://globalchangetools.org/collections/books/products/teachings-on-healing-from-a-spiritual-perspective

    Those of us who study the fact that human beings have various bodies all functioning with the physical body should know that any one of those bodies may need healing before the physical body can be healed.  Often, band-aids are put on the disease where deep soul surgery or emotional surgery needs attention.  The physical body or cellular body has to deal with impure air, impure water, impure food, and bacteria and viruses.  All that breaks down the immune system.  But very few individuals realize that many diseases of the body are actually caused by impure thinking, in both emotional (etheric) and astral (soul) bodies.  A series of negative thought patterns is called dio thade thought.  This dio thade thought can disrupt any of the body’s systems over a period of time and cause any of a number of diseases.

    One thing that distinguishes human beings from animals is that we have emotions.  These emotions, when handled properly and in balance, can bring forth beautiful music and art and wonderful novels.  But when emotions are imbalanced, they can disrupt relationships and cause actual physical pain to the cellular body.  Many people fail in all endeavors of life because they have not learned to control their emotions. (more…)