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Food and Integral Health

The food that we eat directly impacts our health and well-being. However the lifestyle that many of us lead does not facilitate healthy eating. Due to lack of time and energy, we end up eating whatever is available, convenient or cheap. Over time, we get accustomed to this and enjoy

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What is Integral Health?

Imagine that you need to travel by road. What are the basic requirements? ·  A vehicle with a sturdy exterior that can support the other parts ·  Fuel to keep going ·   A steering mechanism that helps you follow your route/map Ensuring that these three are functioning well is essential for you

Love

Love Compilation

Nothing can resist the steady action of love. It melts all resistances and triumphs over all difficulties...

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Love Summary

Love is one of the great universal forces; it exists by itself and its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which it manifests.

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Connect to the Inner Child

To help open your heart to the world it can be useful to connect with your inner child. Your inner child is the part within who retains the child’s innocence. Their heart still shines without reason. Write a letter to your inner child about how you lost this sense

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Practices to Cultivate Love

To help cultivate pure love we need to look deep into our hearts. So think of someone you feel a simple, uncomplicated love for - maybe a child or a pet - and focus your attention on the love you have for them. Notice how your heart feels. Look as

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Inviting Love in our Lives

Contemplate How can you be more loving in your life? Practice of the Week: For the Joy of Loving Giving something from a place of love, without wanting anything in return. Try to do this practice at least once a day - and more if you can. It does not

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How to Love?

Last week we saw that our common understanding of love is upside-down. Love is not something we need from others in order to overcome loneliness or to be happy or fulfilled. It is not the desire for physical intimacy with another. Love is something that radiates from our hearts and

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Associations with and Stages of Love!

Contemplate When you think about the word love what comes to mind. Are there specific images, or sounds or sensations or feelings? Practice of the Week: Stages of Love! There are many different stages at which we can experience love. Stage 1: To begin with we love only when we

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What is Love?

Last week we saw why love is important, but what is it? When we think of love it can bring to mind our close relationships with others, especially those we are romantically involved with. Whilst there may be elements of pure love in these relationships often they can be tainted

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Experiencing Love

Contemplate What is your experience of love so far? When was the last time you encountered this pure love, this sense of sweet oneness with the universe, and what happened? Practice of the Week: Open to the Wideness Go to the terrace - or a space where you can be

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Why Love Matters?

Have you ever felt lonely and distant from others? It may be that those close to you have different views on life, or maybe you argued with a friend. Often these differences can feel like something hard and permanent. This sense of separation can leave us feeling sad and unable

Aspiration

Aspiration Summary

Aspiration is a dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine.

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Aspiration Compilation

Aspiration is a turning upward of the inner being with a call, yearning, prayer for the Divine, for the Truth, for the Consciousness, Peace, Ananda, Knowledge, descent of Divine Force or whatever else is the aim of one’s endeavour.

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Practice of the Week: Sustaining and Intensifying your Aspiration

Last week we converted our raw aspiration into actions for us to practice, by creating a habits chart. How consistent have you been with practicing them? When we first discover our aspiration and put it into practice, we also discover energies within us that facilitate our journey. However, over a

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Common Challenges while Focusing on your Aspiration

Many of us may make promises to ourselves to eat healthier, go to the gym or another activity towards one of our goals. It is exciting in the beginning when the determination is high but it soon fizzles out. What can be done to ensure that this doesn't

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Practice of the Week: Translating Aspiration to Action

Last week we gave our aspiration a physical form. Let us now invoke that energy and translate the pure energy into material action. Sit in a quiet place with your aspiration art. Connect to it and feel the strength of your aspiration. Visualise yourself doing something towards this aspiration. Try

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Invoking Aspiration

A magic leverage suddenly is caught That moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will: A prayer, a master act, a king idea Can link man’s strength to a transcendent Force. (From Savitri) Aspiration is not something that you mentally construct, but something that already exists in the depths of

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Practice of the Week: Verbally or Visually Representing your Aspiration

Last week we attempted to experience aspiration. Now let us give it a physical form. Sit in your room/undisturbed space and have a paper, pen, pencil, colours and some of your favourite stationery ready in front of you. Now close your eyes and focus on your aspiration. Place it

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Identifying Aspiration

Have you felt a gentle tug, a quiet nudge to pursue something that brings out some goodness in you and fills you with a calm happiness? This is aspiration. Aspiration is a steady, calm, quiet force that drives a person to put in effort towards something they wish to do.

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The Practice of the Week: Discovering your Aspiration

List down goals that interest you. For each goal, ask yourself why it interests you. Is it outcome driven (richness, popularity), ego driven (‘I want to prove how good I am’) or fear driven? Arrive at an activity which is not driven by any of these but brings you a

Discipline

Discipline Compilation

To live and act under control or according to a standard of what is right—not to allow the vital or the physical to do whatever they like and not to let the mind run about according to its fancy without truth or order.

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Discipline Summary

By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature.

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Awaken Yourself With Aspiration

Jyoti and her friend had a conversation at a New Year's party. "Jyoti, what is your New Year resolution for the coming year?" Jyoti replied "To sing better". "But you already sing so well and you have become famous." Jyoti said “I

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Challenges on the Path of Discipline

Consider these situations: A child is playing with her toys enthusiastically. As soon as its mother asks her to put away her toys and clean up she suddenly feels lethargic to do it. An elderly man who loves sweets is trying to adopt a healthier food pattern to improve his