Personal Transformation: An Ocean of Change
Everywhere in nature, we see change. The one unchanging thing about Mother Nature is that she is constantly changing. Day gives way to night. The hot and humid days of summer yield to the brisk, cool winds of fall. The garden is in bloom and then goes to seed. Similarly, in our own lives, there is constant flux. Constant change. Think of your own life over the past ten years: all the people who have come and gone; changes in your living situation, your work, your finances, your health, or simply how you spend your days. In everyone’s life, the pendulum swings between pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and blame. Birth, growth, decay, and death are the major steps in Creation’s eternal dance. We live in an ocean of change. We are a microcosm of the universe. The same laws that we see in the macrocosm are operative in us as well. For example, in our pranayama practice, we learn to control the pranic force within us, and then we know how to control it outside us as well. If we...
Warning: Laughter Can Be Hazardous to Your Illness
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