The Personality Is The Reactive Perceiver
By Gurudev Shri Amritji The personality is the reactive perceiver, a self-image that builds its own personal reality through the medium of the mind as it moves through time. It divides experience into good and evil, friend and enemy, my side and your side, then lives...
The World Changes Less Than the Reactive Perceiver
What Brainwaves Reveal About Meditation, Perception, and Consciousness By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every moment of your life is filtered through the state of your own consciousness. Most people believe they experience life first and then react to it. Yoga suggests...
Re-Train Your Brain
By Gurudev Shri Amritji To re-train your brain, it helps to understand the human limbic system, a network of interconnected brain structures involved in emotional processing, memory, motivation, and instinctive survival responses. It assigns emotional meaning to...
The Personality Is The Reactive Perceiver
By Gurudev Shri Amritji The personality is the reactive perceiver, a self-image that builds its own personal reality through the medium of the mind as it moves through time. It divides experience into good and evil, friend and enemy, my side and your side, then lives...
Why We React Before We Can Think
By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every reaction arises out of the discrepancy between reality and your ideas about how it should be or how you expect it to be. This process unfolds so quickly that most people experience only the reaction itself, without recognizing that every...
The World Changes Less Than the Reactive Perceiver
What Brainwaves Reveal About Meditation, Perception, and Consciousness By Gurudev Shri Amritji Every moment of your life is filtered through the state of your own consciousness. Most people believe they experience life first and then react to it. Yoga suggests...
Re-Train Your Brain
By Gurudev Shri Amritji To re-train your brain, it helps to understand the human limbic system, a network of interconnected brain structures involved in emotional processing, memory, motivation, and instinctive survival responses. It assigns emotional meaning to...
The Hidden Prison of Time
When the Past Becomes the Present By Gurudev Shri Amritji Most human suffering begins when attention becomes trapped in time, unconsciously identified with emotional memory-events from the past that continue to live within the body, nervous system, and mind as...
The Hidden Filter Through Which You See the World
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji Unresolved tension begins when perception passes through a hidden filter of separation. This filter quietly divides experience into “me” and “the world,” creating the first structure of inner conflict. What...
Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?
By Gurudev Shri Amritji One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of...
Your Nervous System Was Designed to Recover
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The connection between emotions and illness is well documented and established. Many tension based illnesses can be traced to traumatic, emotionally charged events that disrupt the balancing power and self...
The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life
By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active. The state your body enters every night allows the body to restore itself without effort, while the mind is no longer organizing...
Yoga: Where Concentration Ends and Meditation Begins
When to Consciously & Intuitively Let Go of Techniques By Gurudev Shri Amritji Meditation does not begin by forcing stillness; it begins with concentration, the narrowing of focus on the object of attention. While you are holding the asana, you practice directed,...