Matters of the Mind

Some lessons (gathered from www.gurumaa.com)
- Learn to love yourself, accept yourself as you are and meditate. Learning to be in the moment, accepting it with full gratitude, gives us a fresh, new zeal to live with awareness. Breathe deeply, look outside the window, at the tree or the sky, shut your eyes with the deep resolve that you have taken this opportunity of a lifetime, that you have taken the responsibility for your life. Let the mind be free of all the pretensions and assumptions. Be natural, be in the moment – the moment that is called LIFE!

- Pain, anxiety, desires, stress, tensions, worries, resentments – all forms of fear – are caused by living unconsciously. These happen because we are attached to the past and by being future-oriented. If you are living your life perpetually wishing for something, then you are giving rise to various kinds of turmoil in your mind.

Mapping the Mind... (gathered from www.lifepositive.com)

Both the mind and the body are made up of the 'Five Great Elements' (Panchabhutas) of earth (prithvi), water (jal), fire (agni or tej), air (vayu) and ether or space (akash).

But in spite of such composition, they have absolutely opposite elemental structures. While the body is made up of the heavier elements of earth and water, it functions through the lighter elements of fire (pitta) and air (vata)
The mind, meanwhile, is composed of air and ether. And our mental functions proceed through the heavier elements of fire, water and earth.

Ashtanga Yoga - Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi
Dharana, the sixth limb of the Yoga philosopher Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, literally means 'immovable concentration of the mind'.Dhyana, the seventh limb of Ashtanga Yoga, means worship, or profound and abstract religious meditation. It is perfect contemplation. It involves concentration upon a point of focus with the intention of knowing the truth about it.