-NARAYANI GANESH The popular saying is, ‘Learn to accept the things you cannot change.’ Or, ignore. Imagine you find yourself in the middle of a ferocious argument between two colleagues. What would you do, take.
Creating a New You February 8, 2021, 11:45 PM IST
-KAMBIZ NAFICY
A group of neurological researchers have proven that Buddhist mindfulness meditation and creative visualisation strengthen certain parts of the brain by generating fresh brain cells, neurons and synapses, or connections between neurons.
Buddhist and Vedantic philosophies talk of mind over matter. These philosophies teach that there is no fixed ‘you’. Not only can you generate neurons and form new synapses through mental exercises, personality-wise, you also become who you think you are through repetitive thoughts and visualisations. India’s sages teach that this whole world is made of thoughts.
Over the last 25 years, scientific evidence leads to the same conclusion. Scientists are proving that stubborn mental disorders like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression can be cured with the help of meditation and creative visualisation. In the early 1990s, UCLA’s Jeffrey Schwartz and
By Meena Om We have come full circle from being simple, pure, pious, soulful and real humans, to shrewd, conniving, manipulative and hypocritical, without realising how much we have maligned our natural process of spiritual.
By SHRI SHRI ANANDAMURTI Neohumanism includes within its scope not only human beings and animate creatures, such as plants and animals, but all inanimate entities as well, for the scope of Neohumanism extends down to.
-NARAYANI GANESH How is renunciation different from escapism? Escapism is seeking escape from worldly responsibilities, from having to make decisions, from dealing with conflicts.… At best, it is temporary. It cannot provide solutions and answers..