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    Secrets to Maintaining a Successful Yoga Practice

    December 1st, 2009

    Doing yoga builds muscles, eases stress, and it also feels terrific - once you get into it. Then why doesn’t everyone do yoga? Because yoga takes effort before you start to feel the benefits from practicing it. Getting your practice started is the hardest part. Here are 5 simple tips to help you make your yoga practice more regular and more interesting:

    1. Choose the right kind of yoga. Some kinds of yoga, like Bikram or Iyengar yoga, are too intense for some people. Other kinds of yoga, like beginner’s hatha yoga, maybe be too gentle or under stimulating for some people. Choose a school of yoga that fits your personality, fitness level and style.
    2. Join a yoga class. “When I lived near an excellent yoga studio in Oregon, and I took 5 professionally-taught classes a week, I never felt better,” says Brett Borders. Showing up at a class can easily help you overcome your inertia, and the feedback from a human instructor can make a huge difference in your practice.
    3. Supplement your practice with Yoga DVDs. Now there is an abundance of high-quality instruction available on digital video disc (DVD). You don’t even have to order it from a spectiality shop, these days Yoga DVDs are available in many supermarkets and discount stores like Target or Walmart.
    4. Don’t take your yoga practice too seriously. Yoga is supposed to be fun! So don’t be afraid to play some music, burn some incense, and take your time. Enjoy the stretches, enjoy taking the time out of your normal routine to reconnect with your body.
    5. Be gentle on yourself. There are going to be days, and even weeks, where your yoga practice falls out of rhythm. You might go on vacation, or you might have a busy week of overtime at work - and your yoga practice might slow down or stop. Don’t be hard on yourself! Just pick up where you left off and gently get started again.
    6. If you pick the right style of yoga and you approach it with the right attitude, you are much more likely to have a successful practice. The main trick is to just keep going, even when it feels difficult, and you will likely soon be rewarded with a profound new level of inner peace and physical fitness.


    Everything You Do Is Right Day

    May 27th, 2008

    16th March is celebrated as the day when whatever you do is right. This is a very exciting thought. I searched for the origin but could not find any clue about how this day began. What precisely does this mean - Everything you do is right.

    Let me put my ideas across about this day. In our everyday life whenever we do anything, it can be called right or wrong. Many a times, not only others, but we ourselves are in doubt about the right action. This creates anxiety and makes every decision making job a tough job. This dilemma about right or wrong takes the pleasure away from life.

    Children, especially very young children don’t have any such dilemma. They do whatever they want and they do it with fun. They enjoy everything and never question if their action was right or wrong. They leave that decision to their parents. What a tension-free life do these children live! Don’t you envy them?

    For one day, say we drop our critical analysis of all our actions and do whatever we think best and don’t think twice about why? Normally, if you have to take a decision about firing an inefficient employee and save money for your company, the decision is tough. Either way, you feel bad. On 16th, if you take a decision about any such issue, treat it as right. This is a very good concept to feel stress-free in life. If we follow this everyday in our life, we can beat a lot of stress.

    Think, deliberate, weigh pros and cons, and discuss. After considering every aspect, take a decision and then stop analyzing that again. Most of us do all this, but continue agonizing ourselves after taking a decision. Does this help? No. This is a sure formula for a stressed life. Beat stress in the way I suggested above and relax. All of us make our life difficult with our style of functioning. It is for us to change our style and enjoy living. Let us celebrate each day of our life as ‘everything you do is right’ day.

    CD Mohatta is a content writer for the websites - Screene.com and Ecarduniverse.com. Most of his writings are found in screensavers, desktop wallpapers, ecards and greetings in the screene network websites.


    Inspiration: Some More Life Lessons I’ve Learned Along the Way So Far

    May 16th, 2008

    • I don’t know anyone who has not thought of a great idea for a product or service and then someone else make lots of money with it later. So next time you get a great idea, put it into action.
    • I have just one question for husbands, or wives for that matter, who don’t believe in marriage counseling: Do you believe more in divorce?
    • People who talk on cell phones should be made to clean up the floor after the movie, using only their bare hands and tongue.
    • The more I do this counseling thing, the more I realize how very much I do not know.
    • Most parents of teenagers play “human alarm clocks” every morning, trying to get their kids out of bed. Research shows that teenagers need more sleep than adults. At the same time, there could be several factors contributing to your teen being too tired in the morning. One possibility many parents do not consider is that some time between bedtime and the morning, their teen has snuck out of the house and then back in again. Check for exit signs above the window.
    • Thoughts and ideas have consequences. We try to think and act as if this is not true, but the sometimes painful reality is that it is true.
    • Wouldn’t it be cool if teachers coming out of college were treated like star athletes? You know, multi-million dollar contracts and signing bonuses.
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    Money or Faith?

    April 27th, 2008

    I’ve been to 64-countries, and yes money comes in handy, and goes quickly (and is useful and has its influence), I’ve had a ton of it at one time or another and an ounce of faith, and I’ll take faith any daywhy? I’ll explain. Anybody who has been in a combated zone, under fire will tell you: ‘…keep the money, I need faith right now.’ In a like manner, when I was in the hospital, had a stroke that paralyzed me, a heart attack also, and bypass surgery, they said I was a Fruitcake. But three days later I got out of bed, and when I did, for three weeks they called me “The miracle of the ward.” Even the atheist doctors were spellbound. Money walked away, as faith took over.

    There was a doctor standing at the end of my bed, for three days. I remember him as I’d wake up, look at him, look at the clock, it was 5:00 AM, couldn’t dial a phone I was so bad. Then I fell back to sleep. And when I got better I asked who that doctor was. The nurse said, there was no doctor, he comes a noon and with two nurses. I thought about that for a moment, and said, “…no, it was a large man with a long white jacket, broad shoulders.” She commented, “…have you seen him since?” And I had not. Then she told my doctor’s name, and I checked out his picture and it wasn’t him.

    Seeing is believes, and I didn’t make this up, nor am I responsible for the invisible world either; so I can’t blame anyone, but facts are facts. Does a blind man believe there is a moon, I’d think so. All the doctors and medicine in the world did not bring me back to reality. Anyhow, the same goes for battle. I saw things in Vietnam that cannot be explained by the physical moon and sun beaming down on us; because it is not of this physical world: simple as that; and so much for that.

    Most of the people that say God doesn’t exist are simply expressing a cheap way out of acknowledging the obvious. I mean, who made the moon and sun; if by accident, it is the biggest accident in all creation. It is like me saying one day I woke up and there was New York City, all built to please my eyes. Now you know someone built it. Who?

    Not having a heaven or hell is most convenient for a sinner, and then you can sin and not worry about it. Like Plato commented: most people would go next door and rape his neighbor’s wife, knowing there is no consequence.

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