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Saluting the Sun #1: Standing Prayer and Mountain
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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Saluting the Sun – intro
Although you don’t have to practice yoga as part of the study of the Ecology of the Soul, each chapter of the book includes a detailed explanation of one of the seven asanas or positions of Surya Namaskar, the ‘Salute … Continue reading
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Seeing the beauty #2
“Giving your complete attention,” I said in Seeing the beauty #1. Observe. Let’s mine that idea a little, because its influence and impact spread out into all areas of the process of balancing the Ecology of the Soul. Observation is … Continue reading
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Seeing the beauty #1
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor … Continue reading
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Spiritual / Physical / Conscient
Spiritual/physical; matter is energy and You are energy. Yoga allows you to experience the flow of energy in your body; it opens your physical ‘channels’ up to that universal force. Chinese medicine and a host of other Eastern schools of … Continue reading
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Grace and Gratitude
They’re all talking about it, the Law of Attraction folks. And a good few more besides, many if not most if not all of the West Coast philosophers, gurus, spiritual teachers and self help leaders, all busily sending their daily … Continue reading
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Past, presence, balance
‘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 4 – Light, lighter, enlightened
Hi, Aidan Walker signing in with a Power Seed for today’s ‘Magic Minute’ of meditation. The video is longer than a minute – nearer two – but the idea will pack into a powerful 60 seconds – and repeats on … Continue reading
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Silence in the throat
Vishuddha, the fifth chakra, is located in the throat. It governs self-expression, independence, fluency of thought, hearing and speaking – communication, in other words. Which is why in the Ecology of the Soul, the power of communication rests here. Meditation … Continue reading
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A Balance of Powers is Freedom Fulfilled
The earth’s ecology is a balance of organic and inorganic, living and inert elements. Of matter (which is itself energy, as we have all learnt from Mr Einstein) and living things, which are energy embedded in matter. But we are … Continue reading
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Dark to Light: The Mouse Hole of Your Mind
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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Sitting on a ring of fire
In the late 18th / early 19th centuries – the time of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe – there was a phrase used by English gentlemen to describe another’s qualities of solidity, reliability, dependability, common sense, determination, stamina and – above … Continue reading
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Video 1: Peace, Power and a Balanced Ecology of the Soul
Peace, Power & Balance – The Ecology of the Soul First in a collection of short videos. Subsequent ones will be shorter! Enjoy. Here’s the script: The Ecology of the Soul – the Balance of Peace and Power Hi I’m Aidan … Continue reading
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Shopping in the Spiritual Supermarket #3
We’re talking about the manifold and varied routes, methods and techniques to ‘manifesting’ –ie, turning your desires into reality – that go with spiritual teaching packages you can find all over the web. The promises are like Yee Shun-Jian’s, the … Continue reading
Shopping in the spiritual supermarket #2
As I said yesterday, there’s a host of miraculous Mind-Body-Spirit techniques and solutions on offer out there, routes to increased power, peace of mind, freedom from disorder and anxiety, and even – and especially – to quantum increases in wealth. Money, … Continue reading
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Shopping in the spiritual supermarket #1
Yee Shun-Jian, Founder & Chief Happiness Officer at RichGrad.com and 101PowerfulAffirmations.com, makes an appearance today. <<Enable you to overcome fear, build your self-confidence and develop an abundance mind-set. Inspire you to achieve your ideal weight and body image, attract the … Continue reading
Magic Minute #7; Body conscious OK, body consciousness not OK
I’m spending time in the learner pool it seems, gathering ideas, wisdom, energy, reading and listening to Morgana Rae on wealth health, Robert Anthony on the Law of Attraction, Carol Tuttle on the Chakras and the estimable Ortners on Tapping. … Continue reading
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Magic Minute #5: Nature is cruel love
So we’re looking at the two sorts of energy, both of which, when all the bits and bobs, surface accoutrements, distractions and detours, are stripped away, are best understood as Love, because they are life, and if life isn’t love … Continue reading
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Magic Minute #4: Energy is Love
Well, not all energy of course. The electricity companies would be fascinated to hear they are generating and trading love. In a way they are, because there is a way in which we can see all and every damn thing … Continue reading
The Wisdom of Home
This is a theme that pops up in the book right at the beginning. Always useful to look at the origins of words and how their meanings truly resonate. Eco, or in the Greek (where are the Greek characters?)οἶκος, means … Continue reading
The Blackboard Blog #6: Is desire undesirable?
More than one image this morning, the Blackboard being a space where there is more than one idea to follow. Hope you don’t mind the sort of random household feel, deep spiritual Power Seeds (yeah, right) mixed in with notes … Continue reading
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A Conscious, Conscient Being with a Conscience
Word games, here. But I love it, and in truth there is a lot of benefit in mining the meaning of words, ‘churning’ it, as they say in Raja Yoga. Look at the roots of the word, how it has … Continue reading
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Peace of mind – a piece of my mind
This is a ‘today I have been thinking about…’ post. Much of the thinking around the Ecology of the Soul comes from deconstructing words, really digging into language, figuring out why we say the things we do and how they reflect … Continue reading
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The 7 Spiritual Powers & The 7 Chakras
I spent about two years thinking about the spiritual powers which are the constituents of the Ecology of the Soul, how many there should be and what they should be. Among my research notes is a file called ‘total powers list.doc’ … Continue reading
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