Creating Sacred Space: Connecting To The Soul With Yoga
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 09:25 PM - Meditaion
When you feel good, are in the moment and are creating your life as you want it, you're in sacred space. Joseph Campbell defines sacred space as any place where you're hermetically sealed off from the world. This can be a room, or an activity, or just a state of mind. But the idea is that when you're in sacred space, whatever you're doing becomes a meditation. Your actions are coming from your soul, your mind is neutral and open and so it projects perfectly the light within you and you feel good. Time seems to fall away and you feel charged. This is sacred space and it's a metaphor for the soul. The soul is sacred space. Campbell says that whenever he would have to travel, he preferred a standard, no-frills room. As soon as he took his books out and put them on the table, the place became his-- a metaphor for his sacred space.More...

Yoga is such a way to create sacred space. You stop the mind with yoga and when you sit in meditation, the soul's influx creates a feeling of wellbeing. In this way you've sealed yourself off from the world for however long-- 5 minutes, 90 minutes or half a day. Anything done with focused attention is a meditation. If fishing is what you do to get in the middle and make the world out there fall away, then that's your meditation. Anything that you do that puts you into flow is a meditation. So you don't have to do yoga. I always tell people, yoga works for me but there are many rivers that flow into the ocean. If you've got a way of creating sacred space for yourself and your life works, God Bless, that's the whole point as far as I'm concerned.

If you're not enjoying what you're doing, you should examine that. Many people, myself included, have been at a period in life when everything seems a struggle and a chore. If you're not careful, you can adopt a philosophy that, it's just the way life is. That's simply not so. It all starts with finding a sacred space where you can seal yourself off from the world for a period of time so that you can use your imagination to create a new picture. If you make this a regular practice, the ability to focus your imagination on the experiences you want to have will become very strong and you will create the habit of conscious creation. The big catch is you actually have to do it! - See Creating Sacred Space: Connecting To The Soul With Yoga from Stress Management - Yoga for the complete article.

Meditation Benefits - Reduce Stress & Improve Your Overall Wellbeing
Friday, November 2, 2007, 05:05 PM - Meditaion
Meditation can be done by anyone. It's easy to do and for something that takes up so little time and effort the health benefits are enormous.

Here we will look at the benefits in more detail how it can reduce stress and also improve your psychological state and overall sense of wellbeing.

Meditation has been proved scientifically to combat stress and the reason is that it simply counteracts it.

What happens during stress?

During stress, the heart beats faster and blood pressure rises. The blood flow is diverted from the internal organs to the muscles as well as the areas of the brain that control muscle coordination as the body is in a state of fight or flight.

All this leads us to the feeling exhausted, anxious and stressed.

Stress is induced by stimulation of the hypothalamus of the brain relaxation can achieved by countering this stimulation by countering it with meditation.

Clinical studies have shown that Meditation can contribute to an individual's psychological and physiological well-being as meditation brings the brainwave pattern into an alpha state.

It is this alpha state which is the level of consciousness that promotes the healing state.

Meditation and stress relief - See Meditation Benefits - Reduce Stress & Improve Your Overall Wellbeing for the full article.