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An 80-Year-Old’s Letter to a Doctor

My Dear Dr. René, I think I have been visiting you now for more number of years than I can remember. My age is to be blamed for my poor memory. At 80, I can hardly remember much. Yet, what I can never forget is your pleasing smile each time you saw me ent ...

How to Get Your Child Started With Meditation?

Do you have a pre-teen child in your life that you’d like to be closer to? Perhaps you are a parent or an uncle or aunt or grandparent and you’d like to find a way to support the child in your life to be happier and healthier. A very special thing we can ...

Meditation In Daily Life

Meditation is like taking a bath to wash the mind. You can take a shower in the morning to clean your body and after that you go about your daily activities. You don’t have to keep on taking shower throughout the day. Similarly, you meditate and calm your ...

Benefits of Meditation

What is meditation? Meditation is relaxation. It is not about concentration, it’s actually about de-concentration. It’s not about focussing one’s thoughts on one thing, but instead on becoming thoughtless. What are the benefits of meditation? A calm mind ...

How meditation can heal you

"In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam – it is very powerful and healing can happen."- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar With such a powerful practice at hand, let’s look i ...

Meditation in Schools

Schools play an important role in nurturing children to grow up into responsible adults and good human beings. The teacher has a great responsibility towards the development of students. Meditation can help teachers to be calm and confident in dealing wit ...

Full Moon Meditation

The moon has always been an integral part of our lives. Whether it is celebrating a festival or starting an auspicious task, or meditating, we consider the movements of the moon. For example, festivals such as Ramzan, Guru Purnima and Holi are celebrated ...

Sun Meditation

Life exists on planet earth because of the sun. Worshipping the sun has been a daily practice in many cultures. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations), Sandhya Vandanam (worshipping the sun at sunrise and sunset) is very auspicious and good for the body and the ...

Guided Meditation

People have different concepts about meditation. According to many, meditation is concentrating on something. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, meditation is de-concentration. Meditation is accepting this moment – living every moment totally. However, th ...

Effects of Meditation on Mind

Mind- Living The Opposites The nature of mind is very complex: The mind has very delicate and beautiful aspects The mind has rough and tough aspects In life you come across both. But neither life, nor these states mind, occurs with our permission. In fact ...