Work Life Balance and Yoga
After a surge of interest during the consciousness-conscious '60s, yoga began to fall out of favor. Exercisers apparently lost patience with the activity, which offers slow but steady results, and turned to the fast pace and quick shape-up of aerobics. Now yoga is back-less mystical than in the past, less reminiscent of gurus in pretzel positions, and more attractive than ever to people who are interested in working out rather than working toward some spiritual goal.
Once you step out of the metaphysical atmosphere, yoga is a great stretch and flexibility program. Yoga is increasingly being used by those who are having a trouble in balancing their work and personal life. A stressful working environment and a hectic schedule has a telling impact on the personal lives of the modern day executives and so they are turning to yoga to bring about a peace of their mind and to adopt a perfect work-life balance.
Also, many disgruntled runners, weight trainers and aerobic dancers complain that instead of reducing the stress in their lives, their exercise regimes add more.
People rush to work out every day at lunch, force themselves to keep up and then rushed back to work. Surely, it does something good for them, but it is just another pressure. Yoga is less competitive, less stressful, and above all gives a wonderful feeling of being.
Indeed, the healing aspect of yoga is a key to its renewed popularity. The strained knees, aching backs and neck pains generated by the push for fitness and the stress of making it in a competitive world have inspired a packaged set of a book and audio cassettes. Some orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors and neurologists are now referring patients to specific yogis during treatment.
Growing interest in the mind-body connection is fueling a major comeback of the ancient practice, boosted by research suggesting it can reduce stress and blood pressure, improve work performance, even slow effects of aging.
Several techniques are now being taught in mainstream hospitals and businesses; books about them are brisk sellers and discussion groups have sprung up on the Internet.
Even the Army is interested - it has asked the National Academy of Sciences to study meditation and other new age techniques that might enhance soldiers' performance.
Details differ, but a common theme is relaxing the body while keeping the mind alert and focused - on an object, sound, breath or body movement. If the mind wanders - and it always does - you gently bring it back and start again
Stress-related problems account for 60 percent to 90 percent of U.S. doctor visits, and mind-body approaches often are more effective, and cost-effective, than drugs or surgery. For example, 34 percent of infertile patients get pregnant within six months, 70 percent of insomniacs become alive.
Do you resist religious strictures and controls?
Do you recognize that higher truth exists?
The true goal of all spirituality and meditative methods is enlightenment, and the true essence of enlightenment is the knowledge and awareness of the unity of consciousness and existence.
The more awakened people are, the more they exist in harmony. They become filled with love and understanding. Unaware people, conditioned by natural causality, experience only conflict with nature, the world, and everyone around them.
In reality, all existence is consciousness. They are one, but they express themselves in different ways. Existence manifests as energy and matter. Consciousness is our unexpressed inner being. It represents all the higher/finer dimensions that manifest as our gross reality in the physical world.
Nature is information communicated instantly among all seemingly divided parts. The human nervous system does not create nor convey consciousness. It slows consciousness down to where we can live and communicate in three-dimensional reality. If it were not so, we would be totally lost in nature, and we could not even exist in physical form.
Life and being exist in order to manifest the unity of consciousness and existence in all possible ways.
Throughout existence, there is only one divine consciousness. This consciousness within us recognizes and connects with everything that exists. It becomes the consciousness of our very soul.
Each soul is an individual expression of the divine consciousness that enables everything, including existence itself.
Unity of existence and consciousness is most clearly expressed in man.
Chakras connect consciousness and existence using different frequencies of energy.
Ultimate recognition of the unity of consciousness and existence becomes enlightenment: Samadhi.
True wisdom is meant for the serious aspirant eager to know the truth of being.
Such knowledge is contained in the chapters of this book.
- The Nature of Existence
- The Nature of Energy
- Parallel Realities
- The Dimensions of Existence
- Unity of Consciousness and Existence, of Body and Soul
- The Higher and Lower Nature of Chakras
- Energetic Chakra Activation
- The Principle of Energy Preservation for the Uplifting of Consciousness
Now is the time to read and understand.
Now is the time to become awakened.
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"I have read thousands of books on Spirituality. In all of them I consider this book as the very best one." - Justine, author of the book "Actual Freedom - Made Easy"
"Nowhere did I find a better connection between the state of man's consciousness, or the chakras, with the civilization development, so brief and clear. The ultimate conclusion that the whole nature exists with the purpose of enlightening the man makes this book unforgettable and necessary." - Clifford Thurlow, writer, and independent filmmaker.
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