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 Anatomically, the human limbic system is a network of interconnected brain structures involved in emotional processing, memory, motivation, and instinctive survival responses. It helps assign emotional significance to experience and plays an...
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 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 Anatomically, the human limbic system is a network of interconnected brain structures involved in emotional processing, memory, motivation, and instinctive survival responses. It helps assign emotional significance to experience and plays an...
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,...
Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?
The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...
The Chakra System: An Evolutionary Map of Consciousness
By Gurudev Shri Amritji The chakra system is not only a map of energy centers, it is a map of the relationship between attention and prana, the life force moving through the body. When attention is constantly pulled into stress, desire, fear, and reaction, energy...