Yoga Beyond Asana with Syari

Setting aside a few minutes for mindful breathing can make a big difference to your day.

Mindful breathing is an important way to establish a routine and become comfortable with the practice.

What’s important is practice. It’s a tool you can use to bring yourself back to the present moment in stressful situations, and who wouldn’t appreciate having such a valuable tool on hand for those times when you need it?

Learning mindful breathing is straightforward, and it’s as easy as your next breath.

We all sometimes need to have a minute. Pause. Take a breath. Take a moment. With so much going on in the world it is even more important that we have the tools to help us all cope with every day. 

The Power of Setting Intention.

Not enough time in your schedule for a lengthy mindfulness practice or not sure how and where to start meditation? Start by giving yourself with this simple 60secs Awareness Meditation. Beginning the practise of mindfulness can feel daunting at first, but starting small with 1-minute awareness can make mindfulness very doable. The more regularly you practice any-length of meditation, the more mindfulness will be a part of your everyday life. Then, you can reap the rewards of living more mindfully. Inhale peace, exhale chaos. 

“Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you…” – Hafiz

Loneliness felt like a painful, aching, hollow feeling at the core. Loneliness is a powerful emotion that, while uncomfortable, does have some important lessons for us in our lives about true connection. Loneliness is a natural emotion that is a form of desire. Loneliness wants true, deep connection, and is not satisfied with superficial company. That’s why you can feel lonely within a relationship or in a crowd full of people. When we can learn to tolerate the discomfort of loneliness, it can help guide us toward the connection we truly want. This meditation explores those emotions. It can be done in any comfortable position that is relatively free of distractions.

This is a simple and peaceful meditation on learning and practice to give yourself some Love and Gratitude. Life is love. It does not judge. It accepts you totally as you are. Love is this acceptance. As you sit, go with your awareness to the breath. Becoming aware of the body through the breath. And then expand your awareness through the breath and the body to the moment. I do hope you enjoy this episode.

The more you meditate, the better you’ll be. Whatever you do, find what works best for you. If that means you sit on the floor wrapped in a plush blanket sipping on your favourite tea, then so be it. To enrich your meditation experience—and make it a staple in your daily routine—try focusing on your five senses (sight, sound, smell, touch and taste) while you get your OM on. Create a quick and short mindfulness meditation of your own to awaken your sense to calm the nervous system down. 

We know that what we think and do affects the way we feel and it can transpire through our words and actions that we may regretted. So, if we want to change the way we feel, then it is important that we know what we are thinking. Everyone has hundreds of ‘automatic thoughts’ every day. These are thoughts that just ‘pop’ into your mind. Sometimes they’re helpful, and sometimes they’re not. Negative (unhelpful) thinking patterns can have a strong and sometimes devastating impact on our relationships, our health, our work…our lives. One good way of catching these negative thoughts is to take a pause, give ourselves a moment to breathe.  When we change your thoughts, we will change your feelings as well. Enjoy listening.

‘Keeping Quiet’ by Pablo Neruda is a deceptively simple poem about the need for a little bit of soul-searching which may help us make peace with ourselves and others. It tells us how a moment of silent introspection will make us realise the utter futility of our aggressive endeavours.