http://theartofeasyjoy.com Ideas, Tools & Joy at Will! Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:30:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Concentration is a mental process of reducing diverse multilayered, multidimensional aspects of consciousness to a single point of awareness. The technical term for this is bindu and it is the development of this ability of the mind that gave the founder of Aikdo, Morihei Ueshiba near miraculous powers. In a documentary ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=48 First, close your eyes and allow your attention to collapse inward toward you. Be aware and feel your body right where you are. The trick is to be aware of the dimensions of your inner space, left - right - up - down - back -forward. Just be aware of ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=47 Pranayama is far more than simply breath control, control of the attention and thoughts as well as other vital energies all must fall within your field of self-determinism. Breath is a vital force and function to organic life; an external respiration as opposed to true respiration (internal cellular) which provides oxygen ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=46 Posture, by which is meant both pose & poise, is one of the key elements to achieving enlightenment and is tied tightly to our breathing and to the emotions we feel and experience moment to moment. The word posture has both noun and verb forms; the noun meaning 'relative position ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=45 Observances: Rules of Conduct ~ Niyama Purity (Saucha) Contentment (Santosha) Singing, chants & praises ~ (Kirtan) Austerities (Tapas) Study (Svadhyaya) Surrender to God (Ishvarapranidhana) Truth* (Satya) added here by Lord Shiva According to the book 'Laya Yoga' - Observance contains the following ten practices: Ascesis ~ Tapas, the practice of severe self-discipline Contentment ~ Santosha Faith ~ ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=44 Control & Purification, traditionally called Yama, is the first stage of meditation procedures. It is a set-up to put the individual on stable ground in order to make advancements along the spiritual path they have chosen. (Yes, all effective techniques use these in one guise or another.) The practise is one ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=43 Native State is the natural, original state of conscious awareness; capable of knowing anything; a potentiality of total knowingness, it is a being who is not literally in contact with space, energy, matter, who is capable of creating and continuing to create their own universe or living in the physical ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=42 Bliss is a natural state of conscious being which naturally attends enlightenment ~ the influence of a divine blessing. In fact the Concise Oxford dictionary defines the word as perfect happiness and a state of spiritual blessedness; the word stems from the Germanic term blithz ~ blithe, joy. Anyone with even ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=41 Certainty, Deliberateness and Control form another of the primary triangles of human consciousness. This pyramid forms the upper half of a star tetrahedron pattern of consciousness around the individual, the Form(s), Flow(s) and Feel forming the lower half. I'll not spoil the fun and tell you everything about these mental ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=38 Control by definition is managed flow; it is the use of energy to create predictable change. At heart these are remoulded and redirected energies created from positive (100%) certainty) postulates or primary considerations, intention and actions (execution) Control is willingness to create, command, start, change or alter, cause to persist and ... http://theartofeasyjoy.com/?p=37