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It is standard medicine that mental states can affect physical states. That's how placebos work-when sham drugs improve health, working by inducing the body to generate hormones.
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Is there a best time of day to meditate? How much time do you need to meditate each day?
Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Here he presents basic and simple ideas related to the practice of meditation.
In this video renowned thinker Huston Smith offers the powerful story of his spiritual journey through life.
All Masters have said, “Aham Brahmasmi” (I am Brahman) and “Tat Twam Asi,” (You are that). Disciples then perform constant shravanam, mananam and nidhidyasanam (listening, reflection and internalization), and through this process they reach the depths of these statements.
If you're feeling angry about the daily barrage of negative news in our disconnected culture, author and activist Sister Joan Chittister says we all have to ask ourselves: "What are we going to do about it?" Here, Oprah reveals why Sister Joan's advice was a wake-up call for her.
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Have you ever received an apology that didn’t quite cut it? That made things even worse? Plus, let’s face it - life can be messy. Despite your best intentions, it is nearly impossible to avoid causing harm or hurt every so often.
Author Glennon Doyle Melton offers her hard-won wisdom on how when you let pain in, you can start healing and become the person you’re meant to be.
Our fear management strategies - versions of fight/flight - contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.