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Its time to relax and rejuvenate! Breathing is a great way of doing precisely that. Learn about the three great breathing exercises which you can use to relax, strengthen your body and calm your mind.
Daniel Seeker is a wandering dervish and lifelong student of the past, present and future. He realized deep relaxations of the psyche when meditating in his hermit cave on the island of Gotland. His writings are mostly a reflection of that realizaton. Daniel currently studies history and philosophy at Uppsala Universitet, as he is currently writing his B.A. thesis in history which explores how Buddhist, Yogic and Hindu texts were first properly translated and introduced to the western world in the late 18th and 19th century.
The importance of the breath in spiritual practice cannot be overstated. For centuries, countless Buddhists, yogis, and Eastern healers have turned the simple act of breathing into the foundation of their daily practice. For this reason, most meditation styles and...
Awareness of breath. Simple, yet one of the most powerful and oldest ways of meditation. Think about the prime importance of breath when it comes to life. Without food you could survive for months, without water for weeks, but without oxygen a couple minutes, maybe a...
Breathing consciously. So simple yet so powerful. Why should you decide to become more conscious of the breath? An activity that happens by itself, automatically and naturally? Why not let it work its magic without bothering about it? Aren't there more pressing things...
Breath! So essential yet sometimes so overlooked. One can do a lot of things with ones breath, or simply do nothing with it which isn’t a bad thing either. In fact vipassana meditation is precisely this “doing nothing” to ones breath. In that specific form of...
Many newcomers to meditation think meditation is mostly about controlling and manipulating your breath, i.e. a breathing technique that delivers one to the desired meditative state. Although there are many kinds of breathing techniques, both in yoga and other sources,...
The importance of the breath in spiritual practice cannot be overstated. For centuries, countless Buddhists, yogis, and Eastern healers have turned the simple act of breathing into the foundation of their daily practice. For this reason, most meditation styles and...
Awareness of breath. Simple, yet one of the most powerful and oldest ways of meditation. Think about the prime importance of breath when it comes to life. Without food you could survive for months, without water for weeks, but without oxygen a couple minutes, maybe a...
Breathing consciously. So simple yet so powerful. Why should you decide to become more conscious of the breath? An activity that happens by itself, automatically and naturally? Why not let it work its magic without bothering about it? Aren't there more pressing things...
Its time to relax and rejuvenate! Breathing is a great way of doing precisely that. Learn about the three great breathing exercises which you can use to relax, strengthen your body and calm your mind.