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The world’s most distinguished limbic system scientist is also a kick-ass rock star
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amygdala, Emotion, fear, limbic system on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Too little MAOA
Posted in MAOA, tagged Art, Emotion on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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A yogi's guide to what women want
Posted in breathing, Mindfulness, Uncategorized, tagged Brain, Central nervous system, Emotion, Empathy, Hormone, mindfulness, Mother Nature, Neuron, oxytocin, Society for Neuroscience, Yoga on November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Image via Wikipedia Please forgive the absurd title here … its just a play on words from a flabby, middle-aged science geek who is as alluring to “the ladies” as an old leather boot. Like a lot of males (with active fantasy lives I suppose), my interest was piqued by the recent headline, “What Do [...]
Love is space and time measured by the heart
Posted in breathing, tagged Art, Craig Wright, Emotion, Empathy, illusions, Marcel Proust, melissa arctic, Psychology, time, Yoga on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever lost track of time in yoga class? On a good day, I’ll get so into the practice that my awareness of “how much time still to go?” comes at the very end. Other days, I might feel time dragging as if the class is taking forever (best not to glance at a [...]
Yoga defies scientific test – better to not know
Posted in clinical trial, Uncategorized, tagged Bangor University, dualism, Emotion, Harvard Medical School, placebo, Teachers and Centers, University of Gothenburg, Yoga on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia One of the most mysterious aspects of modern medicine is the so-called placebo effect. Imagine a drug company that has a new pill. To see if it works, they give one group of people (the “test” group) the real pill and they give another group of people (the “control” group) an identical [...]
Sitting on my thesaurus while meditating
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brain, Breathing, Emotion, Meditation, Mind, mindfulness, Neuron, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality, Thesaurus, Vocabulary Lists on October 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Image by dullhunk via Flickr On Fridays, after a regular practice session, our shala is open for quiet meditation. This is a new experience for me, even as I’ve read much about the mental and physical health benefits accrued by experienced practitioners. As someone who is totally exhausted after practice – indeed, I couldn’t move [...]
Show me your yogi face!
Posted in physiology, tagged Brain, Emotion, Facial expression, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Neuron, Restylane, Yoga on September 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Every so often, in midst of a posture, as my wobbly elbows strain to press upward and beads of sweat roll down my face, my instructor will chime, “Now relax your face and smile!”. Huh? Did she say, “smile”? WTF? Do I really have to add a smile to my to-do list while struggling through [...]
Yoga spirit, southern style
Posted in artist, tagged Emotion, Empathy, Poetry, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are they practicing breath control? No. Are they practicing postures? No. Are they desperately seeking meaning and a connection with divinity? Yes. Are they pulled in one direction by the wants of the body, and in another direction by the wants of the spirit? Yes. Do they cope day to day with grim realities of [...]
Jung illuminates the fires of the solar plexus chakra
Posted in alchemy, Carl Jung, chakras, Uncategorized, tagged Emotion, Kundalini, Kundalini yoga, Manipura, Psychology, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia More on CG Jung‘s famous “chakra lectures” … In lecture 2 he opines on symbolic and psychological aspects of the 3rd chakra – Manipura – shown here with a yellow center and red triangle that symbolize fire. Interestingly, the location of this chakra overlaps with what we, today, call the “solar” plexus [...]
Moving from earth to ocean on the mat
Posted in Carl Jung, chakras, tagged Carl Jung, Chakra, Emotion, Kundalini, Kundalini yoga, philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, Sonu Shamdasani, Yoga on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia Am really enjoying reading Carl Jung‘s 1932 lectures on The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga edited by Sonu Shamdasani. Jung focuses on the chakra symbols – which have many different biological, physiological and psychological interpretations. To Jung, the chakra symbols reflect a natural psychological process of self-awareness and spiritual development. In the Kundalini [...]
Why attaining Samadhi may be only half the journey
Posted in Mindfulness, tagged Buddism, Emotion, Inner peace, Jawaharlal Nehru, mindfulness, Mircea Eliade, Religion and Spirituality, Samadhi, spirituality, Yoga on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia As much as I might fantasize, I know I’ll never attain the lofty state of Samadhi or enlightenment that purportedly comes with a lifetime of dedicated practice to yoga. For one thing, my life presently revolves around raising my 2 children – meals, homework, sports practices, camps, yoga lessons etc. – leaving [...]
Suffering begets empathy and the spiritual journey
Posted in Bhagavad-Gita, tagged Bhagavad-Gita, Emotion, Empathy, Patañjali, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia Pointer to a neat lecture on humans’ natural predisposition toward empathy which seems to be rooted deeply in our species’ need for social belonging as well as “grounded in the acknowledgment of death” (related post here). The virtue of compassion is obviously deeply rooted in Bhagavad Gita and certainly a mental and [...]
Tracking your inner yogi on the web
Posted in Mindfulness, tagged B. K. S. Iyengar, Breathing, Buddism, Central nervous system, Consciousness, dualism, Emotion, Health, Human, India, informatics, Meditation, mindfulness, Mood, Nervous system, Neuron, parasympathetic nervous system, Patañjali, Personalized medicine, philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, Shopping, spirituality, Yoga on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image by jurvetson via Flickr Like many folks, I generally feel better ever since I started practicing yoga. Outwardly, my body is (slowly) growing stronger and more flexible and perhaps (hopefully) soon, I’ll even lose a few pounds. However, even if I was to convince myself that looked slimmer (skinny mirrors?), the only way to [...]
A remarkable mixture of the Bhagavad Ghita and the New York Herald
Posted in Mindfulness, tagged Arts, B. K. S. Iyengar, Breathing, Buddism, Central nervous system, Consciousness, Emotion, India, Jonah Lehrer, Meditation, mindfulness, New York Herald, Patañjali, philosophy, Poetry, Proust Was A Neuroscientist, Psychology, relaxation, Religion and Spirituality, soul, Walt Whitman, William James, World Literature, Yoga, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia I’m enjoying some summer reading of Jonah Lehrer‘s Proust Was A Neuroscientist. Chapter 1 does not disappoint! – on the life and poetry of Walt Whitman who was among the first modern western artists to reject dualist notions of a dichotomy between mind and body that stemmed from early Christian writings and [...]
I.I atha yoganusasanam: introduction
Posted in self-awareness, tagged B. K. S. Iyengar, Brain, Central nervous system, Consciousness, Emotion, Mind, mindfulness, Patañjali, Psychology, Religion and Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia According to B.K.S. Iyengar, in his book, “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali“, the first chapter of Patanjali‘s yoga sutras – samadhi pada – deals with movements of consciousness, or citta vrtti. Specifically, the very first chapter, first sutra: I.I atha yoganusasanam, “With prayers for divine blessings, now begins an exposition [...]
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