Inside Yoga 121 (10/11/14) Does happiness matter? This is a question posed by a recent newspaper article, part of an interesting series of articles about happiness in the Guardian (called ‘Happy for Life’). One feature does ask this question – does happiness matter? While another looks at how our work/leisure balance has been replaced by [...]
Category Archives: Philosophy
Dalai Lama cautions military and business
Inside Yoga 120 (5/11/14) Back in the 1980s the Dalai Lama began working with cognitive scientists who were studying mindfulness meditation and Buddhist insights, and he welcomed this with open arms, but he probably did not imagine businesses and even the US military would one day want to harness some of those insights. Last week, [...]
When ‘rush hours’ can help us
Inside Yoga 119 (28/10/14) Scientists have discovered that the body has a pair of daily “rush hours” which affects the way tissues throughout the body work. The animal study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, monitored the function of cells, in 12 tissues, through the day. It found large shifts in activity just [...]
How to meditate
Inside Yoga 118 (20/10/14) Meditation can look like a very difficult technique to learn, it can feel elusive, distant or awkward; in many ways the practice can be difficult in terms of staying still for a long period of time, but the technique itself can be straightforward. Meditation does not have to feel complicated and [...]
Happiness: the decision is yours
Inside Yoga 117 (29/9/14) “I’ve always wanted to be happy,” said Neil Baldwin to Lou Macari, in the BBC drama shown last week, “So I decided to be,” explained Neil. This conversation is just one part of a true story, shown last week, about Neil Baldwin, now in his 60s, a man with learning difficulties [...]
Those were the days
Inside Yoga 116 (22/9/14) It is probably safe to say that we all want to be happy; it is a straight forward and simple desire yet something that can feel so hard to find and then hold onto for many of us, but according to Yuval Noah Harari, author of a history of humankind, our [...]
Meditation helps reduce migraines
Inside Yoga 115 (15/9/14) A few days ago a couple of publications were highlighting the effectiveness of meditation in reducing headaches and migraine. The news stories were citing a recent study that had discovered that meditation can reduce the number of migraines a person suffers from and also the length of migraine can be shorter [...]
In memory of a master
Inside Yoga 114 (27/8/14) RIP BKS Iyengar “Words fail to convey the total value of yoga. It has to be experienced,” said the yoga teacher BKS Iyengar, who died last week, on August 20, at the age of 95. This short quote summed up a lot of what was important to this influential yoga teacher, [...]
Organic food is better for us – official
Inside Yoga 113 Finally, science has caught up with experience: with recent reports that scientific research has found “significant differences” between organic food and conventional food. Some of us who have already on the side of organics must be found mumbling to ourselves that “we told you so”! But this is how the science establishment [...]
Parliament meditates!
Inside Yoga 112 (10/7/14) The Age of Enlightenment might be upon us, or maybe not, just a few MPs exploring the benefits of mindfulness. When the powers that be take up meditation, could we moving towards an enlightened time? Possibly not, but last week, the British Parliament launched an all-party group given the task of [...]
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