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All about the practice of sat kriya, tips, tricks, how to and more

All about the practice of sat kriya, tips, tricks, how to and more
I’ve been doing Sat Kriya daily for several years now and it’s amazing how you intuitively learn little things from the meditation and the changes that you go through. When I first started, my right arm would fall asleep and I’d sweat like hell. When I got up to 31 minutes my legs would fall asleep pretty bad, even with a big pillow between my legs, but eventually the legs got stronger and even if they fell asleep a little it wasn’t so bad. Here are some tips and pointers from my experience… **Always Tune In with the Adi Mantra 3 times before beginning any Kundalini Yoga Kriya or Meditation. How To Do It: Finishing: At the end, inhale completely and hold, squeezing the root lock and the muscles of the back and shoulders for as long as you can. Time: 3 minutes up to 62 minutes. *One option is to practice for 3 minutes, rest for two minutes and repeat two more times for a 15 minute exercise, which will build stamina and a foundation for longer practice. Some Finer Points of The Sat Kriya: Related:  Meditation, Mantras & MudrasHOW-TO & GUIDES

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How to Honor the Elements of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth As one progresses into more advanced meditation techniques, he or she may decide to incorporate the four main elements into his or her meditation. The following is a simple guide to the four elements and the directions associated with these elements. Specific placement of these elements is also relevant: North is the direction of the Element Earth and the Power of Body. Different colored candles also work the same manner: East / Air: Yellow or Lavender [Pale Violet] South / Fire: Red West / Water: Blue or Aqua North / Earth : Dark Green, Dark Brown or Black candle Meditation Tip Sea salt mixed with water can be used to rid your meditation area of negative energies. Posts related to How to Honor the Elements of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth

The Complete Guide to Organizing Your Contacts + Building Quality Relationships As a result, we’ll need some help if we’re going to build a large, authentic, and productive network of friends and colleagues. Luckily, thanks to smart phones, social networks, email clients, and calendars, we can quickly “catch up” with long lost connections even when not there in person. But the web is filled with tons of options when it comes to getting your digital rolodex organized. Below, we’ll take a look at some of the best resources and projects that turn a jumbled assortment of contacts into an essential career tool. A note: the downside of “optimizing” your contacts is that every service treats the people you know as data. This is why I don’t recommend any automatic emailing tools or one-size-fits-all templates. Before you do anything, pick your universe. The first step of the process is the most stressful: you’ll need to pick your contacts “universe.” What’s important is that you have a “master” contact file in either of the above services. Whipping Your Contacts Into Shape

Quick Tip: Reset Android default apps One of the questions I get a lot is how to reset default apps in the Android platform. This need can come about after trying out a new application, only to find you like the app but do not want it to serve as your default. A perfect example of this is web browsers. Many users will install multiple browser to fill a need that isn't met by the default. That doesn't mean they want the new browser to server as the default browser -- they simply want to use the newly installed browsers for specific sites. However, what happens when you install that new browser and accidentally accept it as the default, pressing Always instead of Just once (Figure A)? Figure A Selecting the default browser on a Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S4. If you've selected a default and want to clear that, the process is actually quite simple. When you've set a default, here's how you clear it: Figure B If you tap Clear data, all settings will be removed from that particular app.

Transcendental Meditation: Proven To Prevent Disease (PreventDisease.com) More than 350 peer-reviewed research studies on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique have been published in over 160 scientific journals. It increases cardiovascular quality, lowers blood pressure, decreases anxiety and among quantum physicists is considered the fourth state of consciousness in which the entire brain is engaged. Russell Brand Interviews Quantum Physicist Dr John Hagelin This is a small segment of actor/comedian Russell Brand’s interview with renowned quantum physicist Dr. Published research has demonstrated that the practice of regular meditation can increase brain density, boost connections between neurons, decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety, provide clarity of thought, and increase positive mood endorphins. Most of scientific studies on TM were conducted at many US and international universities and research centers, including Harvard Medical School, Stanford Medical School, Yale Medical School, and UCLA Medical School. Hypertension

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Binaural Beats: A Meditative Gateway to Altered States of Consciousness By Polly Anne Rice Guest Writer for Wake Up World Many people struggle on their path to meditative states of consciousness, becoming downtrodden when their minds refuse to obey the orders to be silent and blank. For years, I grappled with these rules I believed surrounded meditation which kept me from achieving the insight I was seeking. Eventually, I came to understand it wasn’t always an empty mind that was necessarily the effective component for growth and expansion in my meditations, but the peaceful, uncontrolled viewing of the visualizations that ebbed and flowed through my mind. Binaural beats are a variation of brainwave entrainment, creating an oscillation effect between the frequencies flowing into each ear and the frequency resonated in the brain. Two different frequencies stream into the ears of an individual, preferably wearing headphones, creating a binaural beat within the brain. Effects of Binaural Beats Hemisphere synchronicity has profound implications! Article sources:

將Android x86 5.x安裝到USB磁碟上,讓你的PC或筆電擁有雙系統 想嘗試新版Android的手機或平板,把玩是否符合自己的需求,除了可以到實體店面試玩外,你還有另一個選擇就在自己的PC上建立Android 虛擬機器,撇開實體機的外型感覺外,自行DIY的虛擬機器保證可以讓你隨心所欲的把玩。但你是否想把Android 5.02 Lollipop打包至USB裝置中,讓你實現PC與筆電只要插上USB碟就能執行Android系統,如同隨身帶著走雙系統跑。 不是每個人口袋都很深,而且3C產品日新月異,想必很多人都使用過Android系統,但Android系統一直更新,不是每台行動裝置都可隨意更新,幸好Android系統是屬於一個開源的系統軟件,各種不同的模擬方案層出不窮,有官方版的Android SDK內建模擬器與另類的模擬器-BlueSacks外,之前筆者也PO出用VirtualBox來玩Android 4.X的Android虛擬機方案,這次將安裝最新的Android 5 Lollipop版本,且不再使用模擬器,直接安裝到USB裝置上(外接硬碟、隨身碟或MicroSD),讓你的PC或筆電擁有Android與Windows雙系統的啟動。 將Android裝在USB裝置上有許多的優點,不用修改Windows BCD與安裝grub引導程序,更不用擔心原係系統的完整性,利用USB開機的特性,執行與移除都在USB碟上,輕輕鬆鬆的運作兩個獨立系統。 Step 1:你需要準備的東西? 一個Android x86 ISO來源可開機的USB隨身碟或光碟。 Step 2:製作Android x86 5.x 開機安裝隨身碟 想要安裝到USB裝置上,除了下載Android x86 5.0.2 Lollipop ISO檔案外,你還必須將此ISO檔轉成光碟或USB安裝碟,目前許多筆電上也都不配備光碟,筆者使用USB隨身碟來當作來源安裝碟,也就是說,筆者準備了兩個USB隨身碟,一是安裝Android x86 5.02系統用,另一是要放ISO檔的LIVE安裝碟。 筆者使用Rufus工具來製作ISO檔的開機安裝碟,首先將USB碟插入電腦,並下載Android x86 5.0.2 Lollipop ISO檔案,接著請參考「麻雀雖小五臟俱全的製作USB開機隨身碟軟體 Rufus」文章。 差別的是只要將ISO檔挑選下載的Android x86 5.0.2 Lollipop ISO即可。 心得與感想

10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Film Editing Editing is a selection process. Sometimes hundreds of hours of footage are captured, and we only end up seeing around two hours of it. It’s also a language that has rules. When done badly it can cause boredom or, even worse, confusion. The importance of editing cannot be underestimated. According to acclaimed film writers David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, the typical Hollywood film has between 1000 and 2000 shots that have been cut together. This article has been written in the hope of inspiring you to return to some of your own favorite scenes, in your own favorite films, so that you can deconstruct and analyze how the film’s editing has helped to engineer a perfect cinematic moment. 1. The Odessa steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin has been paid homage to by both Terry Gilliam (in Brazil) and Brian De Palma (in The Untouchables). In Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein is trying to foster the idea of an evil Tsarist government. 2. 3. Effective editing can be very powerful. 4. 5.

Sound Healing: The Power of Sound (Binaural Beats Meditation Included!) By Peter Paul Parker Guest Writer for Wake Up World In the beginning was the word and the word was God. The Hebrew translation for word can also been interpreted as sound. Back in the 1960’s Swiss scientist Dr. Jonathan Reid is another Cymatic researcher, who is a musician and a scientist. Pythagoras and Sound Healing Pythagoras has been credited as being the Father of Mathematics, Geometry and Music. The Fibonacci Sequence is evident in nature. The Fibonacci series of numbers can be found everywhere in nature, and are looked upon as the building blocks of life. The Fibonacci series starts at the beginning, which is zero, and then the next number is 1. The Fibonacci series gives perfect balance in growth and movement, so therefore you get a balanced expansion. Tuning Your Chakras Another researcher into Sound healing is Jonathan Goldman. In modern life today we are being detuned from that field and we all need to find ways to tune us back up. Binaural Beats and the Fibonacci Sequence

FLaTTs *FINAL* by mistrjosh on DeviantArt 14 Brilliant Films You Can Watch in the Time It Takes to Eat Lunch You might have noticed that movies are getting longer these days. A typical Hollywood blockbuster now runs well over two hours, and who has time for all that? On the other hand, a well-made short film offers all of the same pleasures — story, spectacle, heart — and requires less of a time commitment. Plus, unlike with a Hollywood film, there is no formula for what a short film should be, meaning shorts are often richer in both creativity and originality. In honor of short films, and more enriching lunch breaks, we've compiled some of the best under 15-minute movies. Who says your lunch break needs to be spent staring at your inbox?

The Effortless Presence - Active Meditation vs. True Meditation 25th March 2015 By Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World The Nature of Active Meditation Living in an isolated state of consciousness, based upon your identification with your illusionary self, you may find that spatial consciousness is not present in your life, so you are unable to experience Consciousness free of forms. You may have read or heard somewhere that meditation is the best method to that end, so you have begun to meditate diligently. Meditation is therefore something that you perform yourself. You start to practice meditation as an individual self, as an Ego. Meditation therefore does not bring you the lasting peace you have been longing for and the peace independent of your mind that reinforces your existence in the world. The Nature of Real Meditation Your attempts at meditation are futile because real meditation is, by nature, effortless. The spatial awareness thus acquired remains with you after meditation, for longer and longer periods of time. Frank M.

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