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His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about the importance of a calm mind during his teachings in Delhi on March 19th, 2010.
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Practicing restorative yoga is a great way to relax your body and release stress. Learn about restorative yoga and how it can help you from a certified yoga instructor in this free yoga video. Expert: Jennifer Kostel An important stress management teaching is the idea that if you calm your mind your body will also be calmer and that if you relax your body your mind will be more peaceful. The concept is referred to as calm mind calm body and calm body calm mind. If you calm your mind your body will be more relaxed and stress free and that will improve your health and mood. If you relax your body you’ll be calmer. So you should try some calming exercises or techniques for stress management. Calming exercises could include affirmations, breathing exercises, meditation, Pilates, stretching, walking and yoga. A helpful calming stress management technique that could help you to calm quickly is mindfulness meditation. In mindfulness meditation you try to pay attention to how you feel, what’s happening and any sensations you have including sounds. You try to live in the present moment (which is sometimes called be here now) and feel what is happening in the time period. Try to be very attentive, alert and conscious of what is happening in the present moment. Pay attention to what you’re doing and how it feels. This technique should help you to be more centered and peaceful. From time to time throughout the day pause and do some kind of calming or mindfulness exercise. You can try the calming techniques in this article or make up your own. You could stretch and look around the room. You could massage your hands or neck and shoulders. You could count to ten, do things more slowly or carefully or try to be more calm and peaceful. One simple way to do this is to breathe deeply. Slow breathing can help you relax. Exhaling more slowly than you usually do can also help to [...] Here is a story about the Lord Buddha and one of his disciples about having a calm mind: Once Lord Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Lord Buddha told one of his disciples, ‘I am thirsty, do get me some water from that lake there’. The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water, and right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, ‘how can I give this muddy water to Lord Buddha to drink?’ So he came back and told Lord Buddha that the water was very muddy and is not fit to be drunk. After about half an hour, Lord Buddha asked the same disciple again to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. Yes, such wisdom we find here that is of course as true for us today as it was centuries ago! This simple advice as given by the Buddha, nothing fancy really, to let things settle is often just the right approach. The simple and right approach to bring us back to an inner balance and harmony, no matter who we are or what the situation may be. Also makes us think about the “middle way” which is also a strong element and theme that the Buddha taught about ongoing. The middle way means to not take anything at all too personally, but to try to keep a calm center and peaceful perspective within ourselves ongoing. Reason is that [...] The natural tendency of the mind is to be restless. Thinking seems to be a continuous and ongoing activity. The restless mind lets thoughts come and go incessantly from morning till night. They give us no rest for a moment. Most of these thoughts are not exactly invited; they just come, occupy our attention for a while, and then disappear. Our true essence can be likened to the sky, and our thoughts are the clouds. The clouds drift through the sky, hide it for a while and then disappear. They are not permanent. So are thoughts. Because of their incessant movement they hide our essence, our core, and then move away to make room for other thoughts. Thoughts resemble the waves of the ocean, always in a state of motion, never standing still. These thoughts arise in our mind due to many reasons. There is a tendency on the part of the mind to analyze whatever it contacts. It likes to compare, to reason, and to ask questions. It constantly indulges in these activities. Everyone’s mind has a kind of a filter, which allows it to accept, let in certain thoughts, and reject others. This is the reason why some people occupy their minds with thoughts about a certain subject, while others don’t even think about the same subject. |
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