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Marie Mills Yoga Ayur: Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:51 AM
 Pratyahara is the refinement of our Five senses. There is much we can do to awaken our mind through our senses. But the most active of all practices? To shift our mind into a new space... is to reduce the barage of information and excitement coming to us through the day via our senses. Quieting the mind involves reducing our involvement in the modern world experiential way of life, and making time to just sit and wait. Our senses our what the world meets first, so it is the senses which need to be retrained to seek less and to be content with what comes to them, rather than grasping for more. Just for a moment, Sit and breathe. See where your skin feels the moment, what sounds come to your ears, what taste is now in your mouth, added to the smell in our nose, and what meets your eyes at this moment. And breathe and wait. |
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Marie Mills: Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 12:56 PM
 For all the times that we are most busy, we are no doubt, quite focused and driven to complete our efforts, to be finished, to move on to the next job or appointment. Yet, in all this expansive movement of the mind, do we ever give it a moments rest? Do we ever take it seriously that our minds can only do so much at optimum levels without a rest? (Many of us do not even know how to begin to rest our minds!) Stress brought on by the need to achieve, to get somewhere, to be accomplished is additional pressure that does not always get released upon completion of the tasks. Plus, even before we have completed one action, we are planning the next in our mind...we are so busy in our minds, so active, we are doing miles of activity in one small space. I have decided that in my mind, and in many others, we need to find a seat of rest. And to take this seat only requires awareness and presence of mind. In all repetitive action we have some hope of beginning a new pattern that could help us. I have been experimenting with 'I am present', with no attachment to outcome, and I do have to say, that it is worth working with. Our daily activity is full of tasks that have attachment to outcome, so this is the difference. To be still in the mind is helpful to soothe the nervous system...if we can add being still in the body, then this will enhance the effect. But to be still in the mind, to have focused thought, for 3 to 9 minutes, on one thing such as my breath, my footsteps, my skin...will open us to greater objectivity and our actions will be more productive and clear if we take it on as a repetitive action every hour, or three times a day or just two times a day. Do try it today, I urge you to enjoy the benefits of clarity and personal destressing. Exhale, release. May we all be well |
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marie mills: Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:00 PM
Over the past number of days if find myself wishing for those closest to me to find Peace and Joy, not only over the next few days, but as a foundation of their life. And as I have done this, I find myself turning once again to the one of the most known forms of meditation and prayer known as Metta Bhavana. If you have a desire to Love others close by or far away in distance or mind, and if you wish to find a way to fulfill your purpose in your life then this simple practice is well worth doing. It does help to write this down on a note card and place it in the kitchen or in the car. This will help to remind you of the words, and allows this repetitive phrase become your personal backround noise once you get the hang of using it regularly. Metta, Loving Kindness meditation is a rotation of consciousness, that acknowledges the movement in our life. Our life moves from a pivotal point- Me, myself, I. And from that then, that intention to Love thy self, we then extend and change the words towards family, close friends, neighbors, extended family, to those we have difficulties with.... here are the words, changing the subjectivity as you rotate your thoughts from Self to then, and only then to others. We cannot truly Love and Give nor Recieve if we do not Love and Honour our own Heart and mind first. May I be filled with Loving Kindness, May I be well, May I be Peaceful and at ease. May I be happy. |
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