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The Inner LivingThe Inner LivingYoga isn't just physicalWe tend to think of yoga as an activity with a number of physical exercises.  The original schools define yoga much more broadly than this.  Yoga is aligning our physical, emotional/vital, and mental bodies, so we live as perfectly coordinated beings.  It is about learning how to suspend the reactive nature of the mind so we can be ourselves, and to effortlessly navigate without any stress.  It’s an individual discipline that tells us how to navigate the objective world and preserve our vital energies.  It is a form of training, not all physical, useful to develop a habitua...2025-02-2401 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingShouldn't my body deserve premium foods?Some of us drive vehicles that require premium gas to keep the engines healthy and long-lasting.  And we tend to follow the manufacturers’ instructions strictly.  It’s unfortunate, nature hasn’t given a set of feeding instructions to us to maintain healthy bodies.  Instead, we are expected to be discriminative, learn from our individual experiences, and respond intelligently to our body needs.  We are given a sense of taste to use it wisely and be discriminative on what we consume.  Shouldn’t we be as respectful of our bodies as we are careful about our cars?  Music by Clavier Cla...2025-02-1600 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingMindful EatingThe next time you sit for lunch or dinner; try to be mentally predisposed with right attitudes toward food.  We are advised to sit with an attitude of thankfulness to the people who prepared the food for us.  We mentally offer the food to the various agents of combustion and transformation within us, spiritually called Rudras.  These attitudes prepare our physical bodies to receive the food.  We should be  conscious of the food we take and intentionally enjoy the taste of it without being mentally distracted. Music Credits: Music by Royalty -free...2025-02-1000 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingHealth Anatomy: We are more than our physical bodiesEach of us is made up of several layers like an onion.  All of these layers make up the whole but none of the layers completely represents the whole.  The three outer layers are obvious – physical, vital or emotional, and mental bodies.  The real ‘I AM’ is that force keeping all of these layers together in union.  Energy flows from the mind, through the forces in the vital body, positive or negative, to keep the physical body healthy or unhealthy.  The tendency to good or bad habits obviously starts from our mental body, and its effect is  manifested in a visible fo...2025-02-0201 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingHealth Anatomy: Our body is a tentOur physical body is like a tent with the physical nerves as the ropes.  The ropes stand due to the arranged tension.  The lines of force can be known only through the ropes.  The ropes bind the tent in its own shape.  The lines of force holding our bodies stable and healthy are the product of our thoughts and emotions.  We are therefore a system of forces and not just flesh and blood.  This metaphor makes us focus on our emotional and mental health just as we focus on physical health. Music Credits: Music by Oleksandr Savochka from Pi...2025-01-2700 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingLeadership TriangleLeadership is about constructing a triangle of functioning in this world, with will, love, and knowledge as the three vertices.  It is by no means an accomplishment of any leadership activity....." Music Credits : Yellow Tunes ( https://www.yellowtunes.net/ ) " 2021-12-0204 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingTuriya, the Fourth State of MindThe state of Turiya defined in the ancient literature, means the fourth state.  We are familiar with three states of mind: awakened state or objectivity, which is where we are faced with subject-verb-object inevitability; state of sleep where subject-verb-object disappear; and state of dreams where experiences exist but in an involuntary manner. Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Yellow Tunes - Mandolin Indian Classical Fusion2021-11-1804 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingWisdom of NatureOur relationship with nature has taken a new turn with the evolution of a branch of study now known as Biomimicry.  We began to learn from nature, not just extract from it.  Gratitude began to temper greed, and we began to imitate nature respectfully...." Music Credits : Yellow Tunes ( https://www.yellowtunes.net/ ) " 2021-11-0205 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingExploitation vs. Coexistence in NatureHow we relate with nature drives our individual experiences and our well-bring.  A study of the evolution of our attitudes toward nature will show two phases since the arrival of human species on the planet.....Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Yellow Tunes - Mandolin Indian Classical Fusion2021-10-1505 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingInner Attitudes Driving Outer ExperiencesOur individual realities are driven by the experiences we have with the objective world.  And our experiences are framed by the attitudes we have on everything around.  We have examples all around of individuals who accomplished marvellous things simply through their attitudes... Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Instrumental Music - Indian classical background music2021-10-0104 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingReality is a relationship between Perceiver and PerceivedNeil Evernden in his book, Natural Alien, says “reality is partly belief: we find what we intend to find in the world.”[i] I can find on the Internet 10 Reasons to Quit Coffee, I can also find elsewhere Why is Coffee Good For You? .......   Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-09-1603 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingComplete CureA great master once offered the following as a meditative thought for a complete cure: “Cure earth by food, cure water by drink, cure fire by heat, cure air by breath, cure sound by thought, and cure mind by truth.”......." Music Credits : Yellow Tunes ( https://www.yellowtunes.net/ ) " 2021-09-0105 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingCommunity of NutrientsWe are now able to dissect everything in our bodies to its minutest detail and understand its place in the system.  Our scientific methods have helped us look at the basic building blocks of our bodies......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-08-1605 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingRepair the vehicle while it is runningThis is a cryptic instruction given by a Master to his earnest student. He gave this instruction when the student wished to share permanently in the Master's presence giving up his ........Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty Free Music, Tibetan flute Instrumental Music, Flute Background Music, no copyright music.https://www.yellowtunes.net/2021-08-0103 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingDon’t repair the TV Screen if you don’t like the programI am not a Dermatologist.  As an engineering researcher who studied in the past about the nature and properties of engineering materials.......Credits: Yellow Tunes - Royalty free music (YouTube Channel)https://www.yellowtunes.net/2021-07-1504 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingI am not my body; I live in itCall me an engineer but isn’t our human body a system of lines of force around which the flesh and blood and all our anatomy is situated?  The lines of force carry Prana.....Credits: HSA Technologies (YouTube Channel)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1DtgJD2zo02021-07-0103 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingLet the gates not define the sceneryHuman body is metaphorically described as a city with nine gates.  The nine gates are: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth......Credits: HSA Technologies (YouTube Channel)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1DtgJD2zo02021-06-1503 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingLove Made VisibleKahlil Gibran says in The Prophet, “Work is love made visible.”  Work done with this attitude is service.  We do not usually see service as an attitude; instead, it is seen as an activity that people engage in, without expecting remuneration, and typically dedicating weekends and off-hours......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty Free Music, Tibetan flute Instrumental Music, Flute Background Music, no copyright music. https://www.yellowtunes.net/2021-06-0103 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingIntrospectionA few evening moments of self-reflection on thoughts, on speech indulgences, and on actions taken during the day, are therapeutic indeed.........Music Credits:Track: Fireworks March (Bamboo Flute) NCM version Music provided by Youtube Free Music Library (NCM) Watch: https://youtu.be/H31PRzqlj8s​ Music Promoted by Music Restored https://youtu.be/F6yhP9OTTOE​ 2021-05-1505 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingInductionNo, it is not induction into some Hall of Fame. It's much loftier than that. Induction is where ideas and concepts disappear in our minds, and attitude-shift occurs without the need for mental occupation by an idea........Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-05-0103 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingInspirationInspiration comes from outside and we breath it in. And it can come in the most unexpected moments such as when we read a book, listen to a story, talk to a stranger......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-04-1503 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingHigher vs Lower SelfOnce we try to iron out our personality deficiencies, and transform ourselves to be what we aspire to be; we begin seeing two individuals within ourselves: Higher and Lower Self......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-04-0103 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingKnowing vs BeingWe all enjoy the powers of reasoning and knowledge, which give us a sense of superiority over others in debates and intellectual conversations. As we enjoy this sense of superiority, we seek more opportunities to exercise these powers of reasoning and critical analyses......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-03-1606 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingSpeech and SilenceSpeech originates from a thought, which is presented in one’s own language. Thought in turn originates from oneself as a wave rises out of an ocean. Speech is therefore an end-product of a long assembly chain.......Credits: Yellow Tunes(Youtube Channel)Royalty free music - Indian Flute background Music - Flute Instrumental Music for Meditation & yoga2021-03-0603 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingAll in One and One in AllThere are five states of matter – solid, water, air, fire, and space. Some wrongly understand space as nothing. In fact, space is everything.....Credits: Amazing Grace by Jason Shaw on AudionautiXMusic by audionautix.comCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License2021-02-1405 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingStates of AwarenessImagine watching your favorite movie in a Theater.  If you really like the movie, you will be so immersed in it that you don’t notice how much time has passed.....Credits: Largo From Concerto No 5Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 2021-01-2405 minThe Inner LivingThe Inner LivingInner Living for Outer HarmonyInner Living is about the world we make with our thoughts, feelings, and emotions.  It is about how we respond to our environment and to our communities.  Our work is to offer tools which enable conscious development of attitudes necessary for harmonious living.Credits: What A Beautiful SunsetExzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/2020-11-3005 min