This is the second in a series about a New Year's chakra tune-up. Your second chakra is located at your sacrum and is believed to be related to relationships and your emotions. It's associated color is orange. The contrasting urges of addiction, violence and pleasure are all seated here. For the next week I’ll share a video every day to balance a different chakra. These are short, soothing meditations that still manage a real impact.
Continue reading...6. January 2009
The New Year seems like a great time to take your chakras in for a tune-up. In Eastern traditions of thought, chakras are centers of energy in your body that run the length of your spine, then on up to your third eye and finally the top of your head. They are considered part of your etheric body and there is a whole tradition of working with them in Indian medicine. Your first chakra is located at the base of your spine and is believed to be related to survival instincts and other basic, hard-wired human behavior.
Continue reading...5. January 2009
Today is probably the first serious work day of the new year—and with it may come increasing pressures as the economy continues to slide downward. So what can you do to manage your stress? No surprise to regular visitors to this blog—you can meditate to relive your tension and worries. Even if you’re new to meditation, [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2009
First light—wind rises with the sun; gulls can’t wait to surrender themselves to invisible currents above the bay. Or are they invisible only to our impaired senses? Perhaps to birds, air currents glow with ultra-violet light, delineating direction and speed. Perhaps the air hums to music sung by madronas on the bluff. Perhaps the air vibrates with scents, memories of snow carried down from Canada. Perhaps currents swirl and dance in colors unknown to us. And what if gulls are not surrendering to the whim of the wind, but instead are highly skilled acrobatic fliers?
Continue reading...2. January 2009
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
Continue reading...1. January 2009
A subtle pastel sky lures me outside, but it’s cold, with a light breeze off the Strait. Like a heliotrope that barely knows which way to turn, I set off on an afternoon walk to lift my face toward the scant sunlight and say goodbye to the year. Thanks to the tugging of the young moon setting dimly in the west, the beach is extra wide. Thin bands of clouds hover over the islands and the mountains, centering me in the famous blue hole. Of course I’m alone on the beach. With the temperature in the low 40s, the day doesn’t shout: Come on down to the beach—except to me. Cold never kept me from anything.
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What Is Meditation?
How To Meditate in 5 Easy Steps
Setting the Mood to Meditate
Benefits of Meditation
Expanding Your Current Meditation Practice
Why I Meditate and How It Affects Me
7. January 2009
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