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When worry leaves us, where does it go? Have you found a place where your worry goes? Or is what disappears really the illusion of worry? Worry is like a bubble. If we believe in it, it can be frightening. - Ajahn Sundara
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They do not regret the past, nor do they brood over the future. They live in the present. Therefore they are radiant. - Samyutta Nikaya
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The dropout rate from meditation is high. People lose their motivation. - Deepak Chopra
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Awakened beings don’t usually do things that make them miserable. Their lives may still have some misery, but they don’t pick it up. They don’t identify with it; they don’t make it their own. They stop and look at it; they feel, experiencing
their life as it is right now, and they leave it there. - Ajahn Sundara
their life as it is right now, and they leave it there. - Ajahn Sundara
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Being a hermit doesn’t mean you live in the deep forest; it means that your mind is free from dualistic constructs. ―Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava
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These two words – good enough – can be a powerful mantra to embrace because we live in a the culture which demands that we meet impossible standards. Everyone should be tall, thin, healthy, wealthy, intelligent, witty, attractive. This can leave us with the feeling of “not enough.” We fall victim to a downward spiral of believing we are not smart enough, successful enough, wealthy enough, attractive enough, and that we don’t have enough or do enough. Correct this by adjusting your self-view by focusing on the small, good things you are doing and experiencing. Repeat this mantra to yourself as often as necessary – good enough! - Victor M. Parachin
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We can complacently watch life from the sidelines, or we can risk our pride, our ideas, and whatever else we use to separate ourselves from others and leap fully into our life. Take that leap. - Michael Wenger
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We have the wisdom to know what makes us turn into hellish beings with hellish lives, and the wisdom to know how to bring those lives into a place of goodness, kindness, love and peace, the qualities that make a liveable world. - Ajahan Sundara
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Herpreet Thind is associate Professor of Public Health, UMass Lowell and is a behavioral scientist who researches how physical activity – and specifically yoga – can prevent and help manage chronic diseases. She recently published an article on a web site called Theconversation.com about the wide variety of benefits - to body, mind and spirit - which come from a regular yoga practice. Here are some highlights:
(read the entire article here: https://theconversation.com/yoga-modern-research-shows-a-variety-of-benefits-to-both-body-and-mind-from-the-ancient-practice-197662 )
- most types of yoga can help to improve a person’s strength and flexibility.
- researchers found that eight weeks of yoga improved muscular strength at the elbow and knee by 10%-30%.
- Flexibility at the ankle, shoulder and hip joints also increased by 13%-188%.
- yoga is effective pain management including areas of the lower back, neck, and head (aches)
- a regular practice over eight to 12 weeks can lead to moderate reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms
- mindfulness aspect of yoga leads to many benefits not found from other forms of exercise.
(read the entire article here: https://theconversation.com/yoga-modern-research-shows-a-variety-of-benefits-to-both-body-and-mind-from-the-ancient-practice-197662 )
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Balance is a skill we develop, we don’t achieve it straightaway. We’re not working with an inanimate object. We are working with energy, our big energy body that doesn’t always tell us in advance how it is going to respond. So we have to become skilled in receiving this energy without misinterpreting it or being confused by the energetic movement of the mind and body. - Ajahan Sundara