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Integral Health

Summary of Learnings

* Our body is a vehicle carrying us to fulfill our true purpose in life. Awakening or rediscovering the purpose, allowing it to flood your mind, body and emotions with its intelligence, guidance, calmness and strength is the principle process of Integral Health. * Eating consciously consuming fresh and natural foods to

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Overcoming Illness

Illness is a symptom of disharmony in your being. Re-establishing the balance within you will help you regain good health. Faith is an excellent healer, however it is difficult to have unflinching, strong, consistent faith in something that we cannot perceive using the five senses, as we live in a

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Connecting to the Light

There is a light within that no grief can touch and every day we must put in some effort into getting in touch with it, just like a thirsty person would look for water. We do not value it. It takes effort but it is worth it because it is

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The Core of Integral Living

Over the past few weeks we have explored Integral Health. Is a healthy mind-energy-body combination alone sufficient? While Integral health is a part of integral living, there is more to it. The core of integral living is to find an aim of life.  A life that has no purpose is

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Following your Body Clock

The body has a natural rhythm or routine, in alignment with nature’s daily clock. It is best if we follow this natural course called the Circadian Rhythm. However many of us, especially youngsters, do not honour mealtimes and bedtimes. It is difficult to adhere to them in certain situations

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Practices for Living Healthy

Integral health involves good health at three levels – body, life-energy and mind. Uplifting practices for each are discussed below. i)   Body:  There are three key aspects for the well-being of one’s body. * Food: Balance and moderation of the type of food and quantity consumed is important. A simple vegetarian

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The Importance of Sunlight

One of the most important yet often ignored ingredients in our daily intake is sunlight. Sunlight was one of the key inputs for life to first emerge on our planet, and it continues to be an indispensable source of energy for almost all living creatures on the surface of the

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The Importance of Integral Health

It is important to be healthy so that we can live life to the fullest and fulfil our aspirations. A healthy body enables us to work hard, a healthy mind guides us in the right direction and healthy emotions give us the enthusiasm to keep going, and also appreciate life.

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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

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

Love

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

Love

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

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