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Yoga Lessons for Children in Focus
Apr 25th, 2011 by Dee Marie

Children are not little adults. They have different needs, respond to different stimuli, and learn in different ways. Children can relax with relaxation techniques and calming visualization but it des need to be presented in a way that they will identify with. Children’s yoga at its best is particularly designed to inculcate the importance of yoga and meditation in everyone’s lives and the actual training is chosen to bring the maximum range of benefits to kids.

Children should receive certificates at the end of each course to show which yoga postures they know.

They are natural-born yogis. Their spontaneity, flexibility and energy are inspirational and sometimes challenging for parents. Children will incur increased flexibility, awareness of their bodies, knowledge of health and nutrition, and much more. In the short term however, Yoga can still be used to educate children socially and make them aware of what their bodies can do, and above all – have fun!

Children with special needs are included into mainstream classes wherever possible. All classes are offered at concession rates. In one course which is available the children are always the heroes of their Yoga-Bugs adventure and love using their imagination in the stories. We tend to find that children are such natural yogis that they surprise their teachers with their skills. Yoga means union of mind and body, and anyone who has seen a child run, play, laugh, bend and stretch has seen how beautifully unified they are.

Postures take on new life, becoming magical tools to keep the children’s attention through shorter classes based on play and creativity. Postures are described and clearly illustrated in stages of progress into the final pose.

Often these stages have their own descriptive name, so there are lots more Sanskrit terms for us all to learn. Postures are normally held for 10 breaths with an emphasis placed on correct alignment. Detailed verbal instructions are given by the teacher along with very gentle hands on adjustments.

Classes bring together a combination of stretches, back arches, twists and balances which help to support and strengthen children mentally as well as physically by building confidence in themselves, improving their concentration and helping them to sleep better.

Classes are typically 45 to 60 minutes long, and are tailored to suit the needs of the children. Classes with small numbers work best and also we like it best when they are seen working slowly with the breath and gravity to undo tension and encourage effortless asanas from deep within the body.

Breathing is important in yoga and one course recognizes this in the name they give to the whole course which is named Breathing Yoga. This is one yoga school which runs regular hatha yoga classes for men women and children of all abilities. The aim of this trainer, as for so many others, is to offer small tailored yoga classes that allow students to develop their practice in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. Breathing should not be learned from your Yoga teacher and forgotten.

You and your children should practice proper breathing every moment you think of it. Breathing and relaxation techniques will allow you to enjoy deep rest to compensate for lack of sleep. The classes you attend will help bring a sense of well being, alleviate aches and pains, combat fatigue and re-tone the muscles.

Practice Yoga regularly and it will strip away the obstacles that separate you from your source. Yoga practice can be invaluable in this process, as it can alleviate tension from and clear energy blocks in the body and mind. Practical study features aid individuals in understanding and retaining relevant information. Practiced for thousands of years now in India, its birth home, yoga has become a refuge and a great cure in the western world.

If in the Far East, yoga is a spiritual path to be followed towards superior enlightenment, for the very practical mind of the modern westerner, the health benefits of yoga are the ones that matter the most.

Yoga is one of Steve Evan’s favourite subjects. We encourage you to go to his Yoga for Children web site where he writes about the kids yoga mats.

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You Can Develop Free Clairvoyance Powers
Dec 25th, 2009 by Dee Marie

If you have ever wondered what it is like to be clairvoyant, chances are that you most likely are, it this thought crossed your mind now and again. Every individual has episodes where they dream about something happening before it does. Then again, maybe you have experienced bad feelings about something and you turn out to be correct. Those little episodes of d?j? vu are another example of being clairvoyant.

Most individuals learn to develop this ability before they get good at feeling or knowing about particular incidence. You have the capability of further developing your own sense of clairvoyant abilities.

First you need to realize that you already have such natural powers. Consider those times when you sensed something that actually occurred later. How often has this happened for you? These are free natural powers, which is why the title of this article is free clairvoyance.

When you are ready to increase your natural clairvoyant powers you have to learn more about them. By learning more about the subject you can redirect your natural abilities and develop them into your personality.

Have you ever heard the saying ‘if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it’? That saying especially applies to clairvoyance. The more you focus on it’s development, the easier it will be to tune into your spiritual side and pick up on things and events much easier.

Some think that you must be psychic to have clairvoyant powers or the ability to develop them, others think that it is some power of evil or associated with witchcraft and other things. On the contrary, clairvoyance is a natural power that everyone has to some degree or another; however, many people learn to restrain their powers because of outside influences.

While you were young you may have noticed your abilities to feel, sense or think of things that later came into reality. Children show clairvoyant capabilities more so than adults since they are full or innocent, positive energy and are highly receptive. Unfortunately, for many children, their parents or other elders convince them that this power is simply their imagination and then they start believing that there is no place for this power in the real world or that it does not exist at all.

You have more than likely repressed your own clairvoyant capabilities as you grew up; however, you do still have them. By choosing to develop your powers further you enable yourself to not only make logical decisions but decisions based on those things you feel inside yourself that come to you from the universe.

People who are highly clairvoyant have lives filled with light and joy. In order to begin enhancing your abilities, you must focus on ridding your life of negativity. There will always be an element of negativity in everyone’s life, but you can learn how to shut it out and turn it into something positive.

Doing so helps you block out negative thoughts that disrupt your inner sense of peace and contentment. As you consider your life today is it full of confusing turmoil? When you learn how to focus your energies in order to clear away all the disturbing qualities of your life and then you will be able to gain the mental clarity and peace of mind and soul you seek.

Clairvoyance offers us the chance to return to real happiness and live in a world where no negativity can bring us down. If offers us the gift of sight, feeling, and harmony. This is ‘free clairvoyance’ because you do not need to pay someone else to interpret the messages you receive. All of us already have this power, we just need to learn how to use it!

You Can Learn Remote Viewing Secrets
Nov 28th, 2009 by Dee Marie

Whether you realize it or not, everyone including you has a unique ability for remote viewing. Many individuals already know how to use this ability, while others do not. There are some unique remote viewing secrets that can aid you in developing your various abilities in this lifetime.

You should take a few moments daily for meditation to help you learn how to use your natural remote viewing abilities. In fact, meditation can aid you in making the most of your natural abilities. You will need to find a quite area of your home where you can breathe, relax and focus your energy.

To assist you to become a remote viewer, for this first exercise, you need to have someone you are close to sit in a different room. Ask them to make a few hand gestures for you within the next half hour or so. Instruct them to make the same gesture every few minutes or so.

While meditating you will focus on your friend. This remote viewing secret is helpful in various ways. Remember to find someone you are close too, since the closer you are, the easier this exercise will be.

While you are meditating, relaxing, and tapping into your subconscious mind, be sure to really let go. If you have any racing thoughts, just let them come as they will and release from your body as you are letting go of your tension. If you find it necessary, you may want to consider having some soft music playing in the background. Nature sounds, acoustic guitar, or some soft classical music should be all you need to really get into the mood of what you are doing.

Relax and breathe while focusing on the hand gestures your helper is making for you. As you focus simply trust that it will come to you, while you visualize them and their surroundings. When you are finished, call them and talk about the gestures they made while you meditated on them.

The most important part of these remote viewing secrets is that you get rid of all distraction. Unplug the phone, turn off the television, and put away all other visual and noisy distractions. You will be doing this with your eyes closed, but you also need to have a feeling of inner peace without turmoil.

It can be very distracting trying to meditate in a messy home. Clear away all the clutter from the area where you meditate, make it a clean and organized area. Use calm and soothing colors for decorating purposes and then light some incense and or candles to help you relax. You need to be able to relax and enjoy your mediation experience.

Some individuals think they simply have to stop and then begin meditation, however this is not so. When you are new to this, you need to get into the habit of tapping into your subconscious mind. Starting out is always the hardest part. However, when you want to develop your natural powers you should use these remote viewing secrets while giving it your best shot.

You will not have to try to force anything while using these remote viewing secrets and techniques. While following these methods you are able to open the door to your subconscious mind and then incorporate what you learn into your everyday life.

Do Yoda Proud: Meditation 101
Sep 18th, 2009 by Dee Marie

Siddhaswarupananda Insights on Existence

 

Meditation alludes to a state where your body and mind are consciously relaxed and centered.  Practitioners of this art report increased awareness, focus, and concentration, as well as a more positive outlook in life. 

Meditation is most usually related to priests, mystics and other non secular disciplines.  However, you dont have to be a monk or mystic to enjoy its benefits.  And you dont even need to be in a special place to practice it.  You might even try it in your own living room! 

Though there are numerous different approaches to meditation, the basic principles remain the same.  The most important among these principles is that of taking away obstructive, negative, and wandering thoughts and dreams, and calming the mind with a deep sense of focus.  This clears the mind of debris and prepares it for a better quality of activity.  Siddhaswarupananda says that the holy name can cleanse the heart and mind.

The destructive feelings you have those of loud neighbors, dominating officemates, that parking ticket you got, and unwished-for spam are claimed to contribute to the polluting of the mind, and shutting them out is allows for the cleansing of the mind so that it may target deeper, more meaningful thoughts. 

Some practitioners even shut out all sensory input no sights, no sounds, and nothing to touch and try to detach themselves from the uproar around them.  You will now focus on a deep, profound thought if this is your goal.  It may seem deafening at first, since we are all too used to constantly hearing and seeing things, but as you continue this exercise you will end up getting more aware of everything around you. 

If you find the meditating positions you see on television threatening those with incredibly arched backs, and painful-looking contortions you don’t need to worry.  The principle here is to be in a comfortable position conducive to concentration.  This will be while sitting cross-legged, standing, lying down, and even walking. 

If the position lets you relax and focus, then that may be a good kick off point.  While sitting or standing, the back should be straight, but not tense or tight.  In other positions, the sole no-no is mooching and falling asleep. 

Loose, comfy garments help a lot in the act since close fitting garments have a propensity to gag you up and cause you to feel tense

The place you perform meditation should have a relaxing atmosphere.  It could be in your living room, or bedroom, or any place that you are feeling comfortable in.  You might want an exercise mat if you plan to take on the tougher positions ( if you’re feeling more targeted doing so, and if the contortionist in you is screaming for release ).  You may wish to have the place prepared so that it is soothing to your senses. 

Silence helps most of the people relax and meditate, so you can want a quiet, isolated area far from the ringing of the phone or the humming of the washer.  Pleasing scents also help from that viewpoint, so stockpiling aromatic candles isnt such a bad idea either. 

The priests you see on television making those monotonous sounds are actually performing their mantra.  This, in simple terms, is a short creed, a straightforward sound which, for these practitioners, holds amystic value. 

You donot need to perform such ; however it might pay to note that concentrating on repeated actions like respiring, and humming help the consultant enter a higher state of consciousness. 

The principle here is attention.  You might also try focusing on a certain object or thought, or maybe, while keeping your eyes open, focus on a single sight. 

One sample routine would be to while in a meditative state silently name every part of you body and targeting your consciousness on that part.  While doing this you should be aware of any stress on any piece of your body.  Mentally visualize releasing this tension.  It works miracles. 

In all, meditation is a comparatively risk free practice and its benefits are really worth the effort ( or non-effort remember were relaxing ). 

Studies have shown that meditation does bring about advantageous physiologic effects to the body.  And there has been a growing understanding in the medical community to further study the effects of such.  So in the near future, who knows, that mystical, esoteric thing we call meditation might become a science itself!

 

Could Anyone Learn To Remote View?
Jun 28th, 2009 by Dee Marie

Having a remote view is a little different from actually seeing something at a distance with your eyes. Remote viewing is the ability to see something which is far away and not in your actual line of sight.

Remote viewing is a subject of debate in many quarters and there is as yet no consensus on how or even why it is possible to remote view. There are studies which have had success at consistently producing remote viewing experiences, but others have been less conclusive.

Remote viewing works so very well that many of the governments of the world have made good use of it in order to protect their countries objectives from spies. However, eventually these countries considered that the same practice of remote viewing, could be used on them as well and they discontinued its use. After declassifying the research documents, the idea became available to the public and remote viewing became trendy.

How Do You Learn How To Remote View?

Remote viewing relies upon your psychic abilities and like astral projection draws upon your mental energy to allow you to ‘be’ somewhere other than where your physical body happens to be.

When you remote view, you can see anything, anywhere you choose. You can remote view places anywhere in the universe, no matter how distant they may be – even time is not a barrier to remote viewing. You can see events which have already happened and view far into the future as well as anything occurring in the present.

Everyone has the ability to remote view. However, there are some people have a special talent for natural remote viewing. For others, it will take some time, patience and additional effort to learn how to remote view. Practicing how to focus is essential training, for the conscious mind to reach the point of natural remote viewing, but you can do it.

Learning how to remote view can be very beneficial for you, because you begin experiencing things that help to bring your reality into a different perspective. After you, learn how to remote view and start practicing the art, you can train your mind to reach higher levels of thought vibrations.

What Can You Do To Enhance Your Remote Viewing Abilities?

There are many methods and techniques you can use to learn remote viewing. First, you must learn to quiet your mind, and then focus your concentration keenly on any location, person or object that you are not in close location with or physically see.

You can learn how to remove view by developing your senses and power of extra sensory perception by keeping an open mind. This allows you to perfect your skills. Take the time to learn the various methods of visualization and meditation that you feel comfortable doing. You can do these in the privacy of your home with the use of various products as well as making an appointment with a remote viewing expert.

Keeping a remote viewing journal is something which many find helpful as they learn to remote view. You can track your progress and take down notes on your findings as you practice this skill.

Before you fall off to sleep, you can ask yourself to find the answer to a question that is on your mind. After you get your answer, simply write it down in your remote viewing journal. Remember, while you are remote viewing, you need to be in an area where you cannot be disturbed.

Another great remote viewing exercise that can aid you in developing your natural talents is to hold a photograph, face down where you cannot see the picture in you hands. Then, you should ask yourself to see the picture. Practice doing this exercise several times.

Keep in mind that this takes practice, so be patient and refer to your journal – this will help you identify what works for you and what does not. Build on your areas of strength and stick with your practice.

Remote viewing is one of the finer arts pertaining to the mind, body and soul. It is similar to learning how to develop many other kinds of extrasensory skills. If you need additional resources, there is an assortment from which to choose. These resources can give you the boost you need to succeed in your progression of remote viewing.

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