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January 12, 2023
Ultimate Beginners Guide To The Sacred Buddhist Mantras
When you’re stressed or your mind is full of compulsive negative thoughts, reciting Buddhist mantras can help calm you down and quiet your mental chatter.
When it’s done daily, they can help generate a more positive mental and emotional state. Most importantly, you don’t need to become a Buddhist monk to start using the mantras to elevate your modern life.
Explore this sacred wisdom with these fundamentals:
What Is A Buddhist Mantra?How Do Buddhist Mantras Work?4 Buddhist Mant...
January 11, 2023
Want a Powerful Energy Boost? Try This Simple Morning Yoga Routine
The word “yoga” is Sanskrit and stands for the union — it is a unification of the body, mind, and spirit. If you keep this in mind, starting your yoga routine will become more than just a morning workout.
Regardless of whether you are looking to try this life-changing practice for the first time or have been practicing it for a while, yoga is a place where you can constantly learn, grow, and evolve. Here are some foundational things you should know:
Benefits of an Effective Morning Yoga ...16 Stages of Personal Transformation: Become an Extraordinary Being
Shadow work, cultivating non-attachment, practicing mindfulness, learning new skills… personal transformation can seem utterly daunting. Changing your habits of being and doing is easier said than done.
However, once you try it, there’s a likelihood that you’ll keep going — because you’re designed to grow, evolve, and transform.
If you are ready to embrace change and embark on this personal transformation journey, here’s what you need to know about your own metamorphosis:
What Is Personal...January 10, 2023
How to Stop Being a People Pleaser: 5 Tips to Say No
We all know there’s a fine line between being generous and being a people pleaser. And maybe, a few of us have even struggled with it.
When we try so hard to accommodate everyone’s feelings, we tend to forget about our own boundaries. The truth is, we can’t please everyone and sometimes trying to do so, might break relationships, rather than make them flourish.
That’s the very heart of a podcast episode of Honest Conversations (exclusive for Mindvalley Members) with Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani,...
5 Ways to Awaken Your Inner Sex Goddess
“Well, hello! Where have you been?” is what you’ll be asking when you finally awaken your inner sex goddess.
Don’t be totally shocked though because she’s more than just The Deliverer of O’s. She’s your sexual energy a.k.a your zest for life — your ability to feel pleasure, excitement, intrigue, curiosity, and exude so much confidence, your vibes scream out “I am enough!”
So, whether you’re in a relationship or proudly blasting “Single Ladies” as your anthem, discover how you can awaken yo...
January 8, 2023
Struggling to Sleep? Here’s How to Fix Your Sleep Schedule
“I woke up feeling rested and rejuvenated after tossing and turning all night long,” said no one ever. And while you may have had the stamina in your youth to go on and on like the Energizer Bunny, one sleepless night in adulthood may just have you looking for solutions on how to fix a sleep schedule.
There are plenty of things that can keep you from getting your night’s rest, either willfully or not. But knowing the ideal time to go to bed specifically for you can drastically change how you ...
January 6, 2023
Don’t Overcome Your Demons, Make them Your Friends
As kids, we’re told to treat others as we’d like to be treated, but as adults, many of us have trouble extending that “golden rule” to ourselves.
How often do you find yourself thinking, saying, or believing things about yourself that are so unsavory you would certainly never say them to others? What if instead of trying to fight those inner demons, we decided to give them a high five, maybe even a hug?
For a variety of reasons, most of us carry internalized stories about ourselves that d...
What Fear Can Teach Us About the Stories We Tell Ourselves
It’s 1819, your boat has capsized, and you and 19 of your shipmates are 1,000 miles from the nearest sanctuary of land. You have three options to save yourselves: find the nearest islands 1,200 miles away–islands rumored to be home to cannibals– risk deadly storms and find your way to Hawaii, or take the longest journey towards South America and potentially starve to death before reaching land.
Each option strikes fear into your heart. Which do you choose?
These were the real fears that t...
The Power of Saying “Yes”
Feeling a little burnt out? Simply saying “yes” to new things can change your life and help you rediscover joy.
Shonda Rhimes – a titan of television, and the creator and producer of Grey’s Anatomy–took a year to say “yes” and it opened new doors that led to amazing revelations about rediscovering the joy in our work. If she can find balance and happiness, we surely can too!
We often give ourselves the same schedule: eating the same things, watching the same TV shows, working around the ho...
January 5, 2023
The Truth About Weight Loss, According to Jillian Michaels
Diet and exercise — the two words that can make us shudder into demotivation and our brains spiral down into a “hell no.” And there’s no shortage of trends out there that support them: keto, Mediterranean, DASH, high-intensity training, low-impact exercise, and the list goes on and on.
But is there any truth about weight loss that should be highlighted?
The short answer is yes. With adult obesity in the United States at 41.9%, weight loss is a focus on an episode of The Mindvalley Podcast ...
