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How to Desire
We don’t really want to fulfill all of our desires. There would be no pull in the momentum of the day, no where and no thing to reach...
megna paula
Mar 9, 20212 min read


Space: energy flow and freedom
Space is an invisible gift we appreciate most when we have least. What we do with space, how and when we fill it, all reflects the...
megna paula
Mar 8, 20212 min read


Chill Power: art of decision making
The more we care for our inner energy, the less we care to deliberate over decisions. The best way to make decisions is clearly, based...
megna paula
Mar 7, 20213 min read


Desire and Belonging
Desire can rule our lives, pulling our attention every which way until we lose our sense of center, sense of purpose. When we feel much...
megna paula
Mar 6, 20212 min read


Energy flow
Energy is fluid— it takes the shape of anything that is capable of. Holding it. When our body-minds are stiff, stagnant, stressed, then...
megna paula
Mar 5, 20212 min read


Desire
Mental health and sanity are interchangeable concepts, recognizable from within, where our minds are fluid along a spectrum. We can be:...
megna paula
Mar 4, 20213 min read


Centering yourself
Everything is in relationship: the world is what we perceive of it, out lives are what we make of it, our friendships are what we give to...
megna paula
Mar 3, 20213 min read


Awareness, change, and creative thought
The world is what we perceive of it— to change our lives, we only need to change our minds. Perceptions will change, senses will attune...
megna paula
Mar 2, 20212 min read


faq: will yoga keep me young?
short answer: yes! and no... you'll get older and and feel younger! long answer: Age is a perception of time. But this is always true: we...
megna paula
Feb 28, 20212 min read


Werk
This is the work that I do: The joy of discovery. When I am alone and practicing for hours on my mat, I learn the body from the inside....
megna paula
Feb 27, 20212 min read


Samadhi: to live woke.
Neuroscience and medical science tells us that to be conscious is to be awake, responsive.
megna paula
Feb 26, 20212 min read


Aparigraha: non-attachment
Aparigraha is taught in the middle of Yamas and niyamas as non-attachment, got-grasping, the mastery of which Eds the cycles of birth, death, reincarnation.
megna paula
Feb 25, 20212 min read


Saucha/simplicity
Abundance is our reality. How we respond is how we live.
megna paula
Feb 25, 20212 min read


Satya: be you.
The primary reason to be honest is to save yourself the energy of the anxiety required to plan and maintain deception.
megna paula
Feb 24, 20212 min read


Svadyaya/ self-realization
Svadyaya is the contemplation of oneself.
megna paula
Feb 23, 20213 min read


Greed/ belonging/ Asteya
We can arrive at greed along one of two paths.
megna paula
Feb 21, 20212 min read


If you know: Tapas
If you know, you know.
megna paula
Feb 20, 20212 min read


Higher Purpose and the Hotel California
Hinduism is like the Hotel California: there is plenty of room; you can check out, but you can never leave.
megna paula
Feb 18, 20214 min read


Santosha and the inspiration of dissatisfaction
Habituation is the enemy of contentment. We become accustomed to our easy lives of comfort, which slowly dulls our survival senses so that we crave more and more intensity, but are not sure where to find it, leading to dissatisfaction so normalized that it’s difficult to point out, talk about: we can all easily imagine having more, doing more, getting more.
megna paula
Feb 17, 20213 min read


Ahimsa: freedom from pain
What could be the evolutionary origin of mind dis-order? If it did not have some natural purpose, it would have disappeared long ago.
megna paula
Feb 15, 20213 min read
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