February 2012
90 posts
Neptune brings dreams to Saturn, who lacks them,...
Beet Juice Good for Brain →
Drinking beet juice increases blood flow to the brain in older people, a finding that suggests the dark red vegetable may fight the progression of dementia, a new study shows.
Beet roots contain high concentrations of nitrates, which are converted into nitrites by bacteria in the mouth. And nitrites help open blood vessels in the body, increasing blood flow and oxygen to places lacking in...
Harvard Magazine: Deep into Sleep →
While researchers probe sleep’s functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art.
Excerpts:
“We are living in the middle of history’s greatest experiment in sleep deprivation and we are all a part of that experiment,” says Stickgold. “It’s not inconceivable to me that we will discover that there are major social, economic, and health consequences to that experiment. Sleep deprivation doesn’t have...
“When you accept something totally without judging or qualifying, acceptance IS...”
– Jean Klein, The Ease of Being (via withinandbeyond)
“A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential...”
– John Welwood (via thelionsspirit)
“We are symbols and inhabit symbols; workmen, work, and tools, words and things,...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to...”
– James Allen (via heartmindspirit)
Perfect Pose, Accomplished Pose (Siddhasana) →
One of the most popular meditation postures is Siddhasana. The Sanskrit name means “Perfect Pose,” because one attains perfection in Yoga by meditating in this position. Siddhasana is useful to learn, since it is used as the practice seat for some of the pranayamas and the mudras. The positions of the legs and the hands also contain the body energies by closing the circuits and...
“The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.”
– Gottfried Leibniz
river bones: Meditations VI →
riverbones:
This infinite space within which contains all, cradles the world. How every THING is a microcosm of the universe - within each form is the seed of creation. Everything is breathing.
The beauty of breath - which moves through us, sustains us, connects us. How pure and perfect.
To be ever moving…
“My Guru gave me but one percept :
“From without withdraw your gaze within...”
– Lalleshwari (via heartmindspirit)
“Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of...”
– Gerald R. Stanek, Skirting the Gorge (via heartmindspirit)
“Mystical states enter and depart with a spontaneous evanescence, generally...”
– Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oversoul
The Vitamin B12 Issue (Vegans, Vegetarians, READ) →
by Dr Gina Shaw, D.S., M.A., AIYS (Dip. Irid.)
The subject of Vitamin B12 is not new to most vegans, vegetarians or raw fooders. The supplement companies have many people running to their local health (drug) stores in an effort to make themselves deficiency-free, but is this a good idea? A number of issues will be raised in this article and I will attempt to piece together some information from...