...cessful in life.

Please bear in mind that success can be many things. Couples, who have a successful marriage, strong family ties, and good friends, might not be materially rich, but they do have wealth and a deep purpose in life.

Do you wonder about your purpose in this life? When your purpose is noble, there is no harm in envisioning success. Yet, you must still find your purpose, calling, or Dharma. Positive energy, without a purpose, can easily be wasted.

When we discuss positive energy, consider a child full of enthusiasm, vigor, and raw energy. Raw energy alone does not usually achieve success. Raw energy, without direction, is wasted; but Yoga meditation can help us envision a purpose, with direction, and produce successful results for the best life has to offer.

Due to past failures, some adults have been conditioned to expect less in life. This is the safe path and the path which is well traveled. Yet, Yoga meditation can help us find success by channeling positive en...more

Yoga For Interviews - Get The Job You Want!

... about your life and what you are really fit for will come to you. It will be a piece of cake. Honestly try and practice simple deep breathing for a few minutes each day. Find out what you are really about. What do you really want to do? Is this company really about the same thing as you? Or is their mission statement way out of your line of thinking. These are important questions and you would need to answer them before accepting an interview appointment.

While in the interview, let them see your honest self. In fact, they may think you are fit for some other place in their company than the job that you are interviewing for. Miracles always happen when one practices yoga sincerely.more

Hatha Yoga Myth - Losing Weight

...Those, in search of the latest weight loss secrets, have started to look deeper into a 5,000 year old science of life (Yoga) for solutions to obesity. Does Yoga really have solutions for those in search of a remedy to lose weight, or is this all just a bunch of "hype?"

Firstly, Hatha Yoga was not designed for an inactive culture. Thousands of years ago, most people worked very hard to survive. Physical labor was a regular part of daily existence. people gathered, hunted, and cultivated, for survival. The possibility of starving to death was very real, and still is, in some parts of the world.

However, the average amount of daily physical activity, which people participate in, has drastically changed over the past 20 year...more

Foundations of Yoga: Yama and Niyama, Part 1

...tiveness

4) Brahmacharya: sexual continence in thought, word and deed as well as control of all the senses

5) Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, non-acquisitiveness

6) Shaucha: purity, cleanliness

7) santosha: contentment, peacefulness

8) Tapas: austerity, practical (i.e., result-producing) spiritual discipline

9) Swadhyaya: introspective self-study, spiritual study

10) Ishwarapranidhana: offering of one's life to god

All of these deal with the innate powers of the human being-or rather with the abstinence and observance that will develop and release those powers to be used toward our spiritual perfection, to our self-realization and liberation.

These ten restraints (yama) and observances (niyama) are not optional for the aspiring yogi-or for the most advanced yogi, either. Shankara states quite forcefully that "following yama and niyama is the basic qualification to practice yoga." Mere desire and aspiration for the goal of yoga is not enough, so he continues: "The qua...more

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