I think too much. I’ve been told this quite a few times lately. My doctor told me that my brain was working too hard. The Ayurvedic doctor I see in India flatly suggested I stop thinking. And then, the jnana yogi we visited in India confirmed that a person can definitely think too much (although [...]
Too much thinking, not enough being
March 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments
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The three fundamental forms of yoga: Jnana, Bhakti and Karma
March 14th, 2011 · No Comments
In my last article I talked about jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge, and how practitioners of this form of yoga spend their life trying to understand the nature of the mind and how it works. All this sounds like an extreme sport version of intellectualisation. But we all know that humans don’t just think [...]
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The tricks your mind plays on you
March 7th, 2011 · No Comments
Our Indian Yoga Tour for Summer 2011 is now well and truly over. We all had a lovely time and I hope to be able to share a little of the magic of India with you over the coming weeks. As I readjusted to life at home the other evening I took a walk through [...]
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