Tag Archives: peaceful

Saluting the Sun #1: Standing Prayer and Mountain

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Aidan

Tadasana 1 and Tadasana 2: Urdhva Baddha Hastasana            “People do not pay attention to the correct method of standing,”1 says BKS Iyengar in his comments on this basic, initial pose, from which everything else emanates. May … Continue reading →

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Hope, Positive Thinking and Disappointment

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Aidan

In which we explore the tension between positive thinking and protecting yourself against disappointment. You guard against disappointment by not having high hopes. Be optimistic, positive… but detached. Otherwise, if you just ‘un-hope’ yourself so as to avoid disappointment, you’re already disappointed anyway. … Continue reading →

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Past, presence, balance

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Aidan

‘If your mind carries a heavy burden of past,’ says Eckhart Tolle, ‘you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.’ … Continue reading →

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Video 2: Balance – A Magic Minute

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Aidan

Hello, Aidan Walker signing in with another Power Seed for your ‘Magic Minute’ of meditation… for you to plant in the consciousness of your Soul… the soil of your consciousness, to create a beautiful garden. This one is called ‘Balance’. … Continue reading →

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Dark to Light: The Mouse Hole of Your Mind

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Aidan

Heard the one about the mouse hole? No, not a joke but a tried and tested method of quieting the mind. Eckhart Tolle mentions it in (I think) The Power of Now. As you sit in meditation and settle yourself down, … Continue reading →

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Magic Minute #1

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Aidan

OK, everything in this category will take you a minute or so to read, maybe 67 seconds or even 73, but not much longer than that. The point being that the Ecology of the Soul proposes a minute’s meditation, simply because … Continue reading →

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The Blackboard Blog #5: Build a fire inside, solve your own energy crisis

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Aidan

Moving  away from those nasty vices, we continue on the theme of Energy. We make the connection between energy efficiency in the accepted eco sense (buildings that don’t waste energy, cars that use less energy to achieve the same performance, … Continue reading →

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War, Nature, Peace, Power

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Aidan

Nature. We are nature and we are part of nature, though nature is not necessarily us. Re-emphasising and re-recognising that wonderful fact puts us all on the proper road to a balanced internal ecology, an Ecology of the Soul. But … Continue reading →

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