Heartfulness eMagazine
Love & Prayer
LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE looks back on a life of learning about love in its many forms and faces, from the most human to the most esoteric, and what it means to him that love is the source of all that exists.
7 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
The Heart's Wisdom
KARISHMA DESAI shares her unique perspective on the integration of HeartMath and Heartfulness practices and research, and how this collaboration leads us to a bright future.
5 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
Yoga and Ayurveda for Health
VALENTINA TSAREV, SRIVIDYA VARADARAJAN, UTTARA VENUGOPAL, and UMA NATARAJAN are all yoga teachers who have experienced the benefits of yoga and Ayurveda at a young age. Here they share some key features of their use for health.
7 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
THE JOURNEY OF Total Health
DAAJI speaks about the role of the heart in healing, and the important aspects of a healthy life. He explains the concept of total health and how we can attain it through yoga.
6 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
Yoga and Mental Health
HIS HOLINESS the 14th DALAI LAMA met with UNESCO Artist for Peace, Dr. GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, on May 8, 2023. Evoking her commitments to UNESCO, Dr. Kessous asked about issues such as equality and women’s rights, intercultural dialogue, the societal role of art and the importance of yoga for mental health. Here is an excerpt from the conversation.
2 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT CAN FIND ITS WAY AGAIN
CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. He also dares us to realize that it will only work once we become nature lovers.
6 min |
July 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
PERSPECTIVE
SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN story of crisis, courage, and the clarity that gave him a solution in a life and death situation shares a personal
3 min |
July 2023
Spirituality & Health
THE UNSUNG BEAUTY OF ORDINARY ENLIGHTENMENT
EMILIA ELISABET LAHTI, PhD, explores a strength greater than willpower waiting to be accessed.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
WHY IT NEVER RAINS ON THE ENLIGHTENED
ROSHI STEVE HAGEN, a Zen priest and author of The Grand Delusion, sat down with RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO to wrestle with some big stuff—including the ghost of “It!”
6 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
GIVING SPACE FOR HOPE
THE HEART OF HAPPINESS
4 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
THE ENIGHTENMENT LAB
8 ZEN LESSONS FROM HORSES
10+ min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
Find. Your Unicorn
HOW A CREATIVITY EXPERT CAN HELP
6 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
HOW TO MINDFULLY PHOTOGRAPH ANIMAL ROOMMATES
CREATURELY REFLECTIONS
4 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
Awakening to the Wisdom of the Oak
Kristoffer Hughes is the chief of the Anglesey Druid Order in Wales, and his mission—through his school of myths and workshops and books—is to provide everyone a bite from the cauldron of modern Druidry.
10+ min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
It's Not Just a Metaphor
For the past 15 years, I’ve helped clients shift into a place of being where they connect with their own healing power, Divine wisdom, and creative genius. It can be a dramatic and instantaneous shift, which I first encountered by accident, head-on…
10+ min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
THE ARTS OF LIBERATION
OUR WALK IN THE WORLD
3 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER WANTS TO TRANSITION ΤΟ A BOY
ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER
5 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
THE SIMPLE THERMODYNAMICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
When S+H was conceived, evolutionary neuroscientist PEGGY LA CERRA, PhD, awakened to a new understanding of the nature of the mind created by evolution. It’s not widely taught, but the science seems pretty obvious.
5 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
UPDATE FROM THE ASHLAND GODDESS TEMPLE
Thirteen years ago, a geodesic dome popped up like a giant mushroom beside a hot spring near Ashland, Oregon. Here, PRIESTESS GRAELL CORSINI led 19 priestesses in birthing a modern-day goddess temple. Priestess Graell now says her creation has taught her “to expand my unconditional love to a level that I had no idea I was capable of.” She wrote this update:
5 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
THE ZEN OF CROSSWORD PUZZLES
Refuge can be found in myriad ways. MYLES MELLOR creates one of the more curious and remarkably lasting places of refuge: the crossword puzzle.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
OVER THE BORDER HEALING
Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS checks out the new alternative health retreat in Baja
3 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
Shachi Kale
We spoke with Shachi Kale about healing with art, wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita, and the female journey.
4 min |
July/August 2023
Spirituality & Health
3 Poses for Awakening
The difference between yoga and many other forms of exercise is that while you are doing it, you are paying attention. You notice your breath, your rhythm, the specific ways the body feels in each posture. Yoga can be a form of moving meditation. This can be true for any pose, but these three advanced poses, which bring energy into the head, heart, and throat, are especially helpful for awakening.
3 min |
July/August 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
The mind according to Patanjali
DAN ALDER explores the topic of mental well-being during a Yoga4Unity 2023 masterclass. He asks: how does the sage Patanjali view the mind? What does Patanjali believe to be our potential, what gets in the way of us attaining that potential, and what solutions are offered to us to remove those barriers?
10+ min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
How to Make the Most of Life
DAAJI explores the topic of destiny, including our own role in determining our future, as well as the roles other people, circumstances, and the environment play. He shares with us some practices and attitudes that help to make the most out of life.
6 min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
How To Manage in Times of CRISIS
DR. ICHAK ADIZES has been helping organizations to manage change for over forty years. His recent publication, How to Manage in Times of Crisis, is based on material from his talks during 2008 addressing the world financial crisis. But it is even more relevant today when human crises are multi-dimensional.
2 min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
Peer Pressure
SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN shares some wise words and his personal experience of managing peer pressure when he was at college.
3 min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
The Neuroscience of Meditation
Dr. SARA LAZAR is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is on the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. Here she speaks about how meditation impacts the brain.
6 min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
WE TRULY ARE ALL CONNECTED
DR. ROLLIN MCCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute, gave an online presentation to the Heartfulness international conference, \"An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,\" at Kanha Shanti Vanam in December 2022. In part 2, he shares more about coherence at the individual, group, and global levels.
9 min |
June 2023
Heartfulness eMagazine
In Search of a New World
SNEHAL DESHPANDE enlightens us on how pre-conception, conception and pregnancy, and the first year of life affect our later psychology and physical well-being.
8 min |