Author: sipractce
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On Altruism
Dear all: Wishing each of you and every one in your families a Very Happy New Year (2018). Best wishes for good health, happiness, joy and a true inner peace. Our blog posts initiated in April 2010 has now 157 essays of which 14 essays (including this one) have been posted in Year 2017. While the…
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Leadership Through Spirituality in Practice – Part 2
Leadership and Spirituality models Internal and external focus (Yoga and Meditation): Yoga and Meditation are two dimensions of exploring the “self” or the “inner person” Yoga or union with the self can be through reflection on a set of activities: Yoga lifts us from a subjective outlook to an objective frame of mind. As explained…
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Happy Diwali – 2017
Dear reader: Our sincere and very best wishes for good health and happiness to you and for every one in your family. Festivals like Diwali (Deepavali) are also occasions to rejoice and share the blessings in life we have with every one who matters to us. They are also occasions to think of all those…
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Desire, Anger and Passion – the forces that we need to contend with.
Driving on the road is also a great time for observations, reflection and inferences on Spirituality in Practice. We have already noted this in a few essays earlier: https://sipractce.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/on-merging-into-traffic/ https://sipractce.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/why-should-you-vote/ https://sipractce.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/anatomy-of-our-experience-understanding-the-connectors/ https://sipractce.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/habits/ https://sipractce.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/non-attachment/ Recently I was again reminded by my friend on how we can observe events during driving to connect with the larger aspects…
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Leadership through Spirituality in Practice – Part 1
Many of our blog posts address specific topics in the practice of Spirituality in our daily life. Here is a brief review. We end this essay with a comprehensive model for evolution in leadership (see figure at the end), which can be practiced from child hood to old age, for education, at home, work place…
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What is next after “Yoga” and “Meditation” session?
This essay is a follow up to our last one where meditation has been described as a sequence of three steps: With this understanding I attempted a Google search on why we meditate and/or practice Yoga? There were several good descriptions. Almost all of them converged on reasons like the following: Why do we meditate?…
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Types of meditation and their observance.
Recently a paper titled “Focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring, and creativity – A review” from the frontiers in Psychology was brought to my attention by one of my friends who is a medical professional. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171985/#!po=7.95455 For reasons of full disclosure I must admit that I have no…
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Do you dare to be a spiritual person?
Who is a spiritual person? To find an answer I googled the images for Spiritual persons! Try and do your own search. You might be surprised as I was! Almost all of the images that came up were all people meditating, sitting in silence in some remote place. The persons you could identify were the…
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Pressure Vs. Stress Vs. Relief!
Recently I came across an article titled “Pressure Vs. Stress”. The author writes: Pressure is not stress. But pressure is converted to stress when you add one ingredient: rumination, the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events, while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts. The process starts with understanding that stress is caused not by…
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Every house is different; All residents are the same! (Deham vs. Dehinam)
In a crowded place someone yells out your name. Among the hundreds of people in the crowd, you respond instinctively. There are two or more people in the crowd with the same name – not a common occurrence but it happens. Each one of them responds instinctively. Are we defined as to who we are…
