Somewhat obscure beginnings of yoga span more than 5 millennia. The East Indian culture is considered as yoga’s cradle, with Patanjali as its founding father (Forfylow, 2011). Yoga was just one part of his philosophical system, which incorporated 6 ways of attaining unity of the body and mind. The word itself, “yoga”, can be roughly […]
Throughout years of meditation practice, you might hear questions and concerns. Most of them are formed because of a lack of knowledge of what meditation is. Some of them are stereotypes that emerged from movies, newspapers and other media. Surely, there is a lot of information on meditation around. It’s easy to get lost and […]
It is too much… Let us ask you a quick question. Have you ever been in a situation when you felt it is just too much of everything? Surely it can be too much with work, other people, mounting stress, and simply a lot of things going on. You simply cannot go on like this […]
Let’s talk about attention today, shall we? Our main question is the importance to train attention. We will discuss how to do it by means of mindfulness meditation. Attention crisis Have you noticed that many of the job openings advertise the necessity to be good at multitasking? It has been going on for years and […]
How to Practice Vipassana Meditation A big leap in the development of your meditation practice lies with vipassana meditation or, as it is sometimes called, insight meditation practice, which is going a bit further from concentrating on the breath. The general structure of vipassana meditation practice resembles already familiar meditation practice on concentration on breathing. […]
