• Swastha – Complete Health

    Happiness and complete health are really inseparable. Simple, but consistent practice of ancient techniques hold the promise of a disease-free body & a stress-free mind. I wish to reach out to all with this message

Next Art of Living course across Chennai

33-centers across Chennai, Tiruvallur & Kancheepuram districts are hosting the next Art of Living courses from 3 to 8-May-2011. This is a great opportunity to get your friends & relatives to benefit from this effort. Free introductory sessions are arranged on 2-May at 6.30-pm in all the venues. Please call or email me for details. … Read more

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Live life 100%

Live life 100% What is living life 100%? It means good physical health and a stress-free life, a good quality life. The 18 to 20-hour Art of Living workshop spread over 6-days gives you the key to living life 100%, to experience a quantum leap in the quality of life. The Art of Living course … Read more

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‘Prana’ continued

There are 4-sources of energy or ‘Prana’. Food, breath, sleep or rest and meditation. A little more on breath before we look at other 3-sources of energy. When we breath, the gross body or the “sthoola sharir” gets oxygen and the subtle body or the “sukshma sharir” gets ‘Prana’. We are swimming in an ocean … Read more

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Sathu dheerga kala

Why Maharshi Patanjali in his centuries-old treatise, Yoga Sutra said “sathu dheerga kala, nairantharya” is very scientific. Let us do a quick calculation.: A 40-year old is actually 3.50-lakh-hours old. That is 40-years X 365-days X 24-hours = 3,50,400-hours. This is how long it has taken for the body to lose its suppleness, elasticity to … Read more

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Prana, Awareness & Commitment

‘Prana’ or the life-force keeps your awareness perked. Everything boils down to ‘prana’ levels. The trick to be in a state of happiness is to keep the ‘prana’ levels up. Pranayama are the easiest & simplest. But paradoxically easy things often are difficult. That is why Maharshi Patanjali in his centuries-old Yoga Sutras said “sathu-dheergha-kala” … Read more

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Life is so dynamic

Depression is a static understanding of life, the feeling that this is all there is, this is all that is. . . Life is dynamic. There is so much vitality everywhere. Every cell is so full of vitality, life. There is no difference between life & vitality – ‘chethana’. A grain of sand, an ant, … Read more

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More on ‘Prana’

Pranayama, literally means controlling ‘prana’ or directing it to different parts of the body, gross and the subtle. For a simpler understanding, let us understand ‘prana’ as energy. Have you observed that when you feel low on energy, you tend to experience anger, feel irritable, experience tension? When well rested, a similar situation will bring … Read more

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Hurry, Worry & Curry

Hurry, worry & curry – the three brothers who accompany most of us in this era. Maybe some of us are careful about the curry. I wonder how many really escape the other two brothers – hurry & worry. Hurry & worry are really twin brothers. We are all in a great hurry to get … Read more

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Stress & suicides

Many of you will have read of the recent suicide of a Chennai police inspector, followed by the suicide of a police constable last week. What is striking is the deceased inspector’s colleague observing that out of 500-police personnel of his batch nearly 30 are no more, in under 2-decades of entering service! That is … Read more

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Complete Health – continued

When talking of the body and mind, it is important to look at something that links both – the breath. The first act of life is the first breath in and the last act is the last breath out. Our entire life is between that first breath in and the last breath out. But we … Read more

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