BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE

Gil Scott-Heron

Its just what I want to say, in a world where there is thousands or millions of people hooked on legal drugs, going crazy, loosing their sanity, loosing their happiness, being kept alive by doctors who prescribe with no sense whatsoever.

Just Today sitting on a bus from Coimbra ... got talking with a lady ... grandmother already, sad person, started talking about all her problems and illnesses and showing me the pills she was taking. We kept on talking and she does realize she is hooked and these drugs are no better than the illegal drugs. So few moments of happiness followed by anxieties and feelings of depression. And we kept on talking ... telling her stories of people who made it ... and that it is possible, if you believe in it, if you take your life in your hands.

People do want to deliver themselves to whomever they want to trust and they deposit ones' life into a doctor's hands.

From close relationships with several people I have come to understand that these pills never cure you, they just shut you down.

WAKE UP! YOU GOT A LIFE TO LIVE!

There are always two sides to things and never an absolute reality. You create your own reality. Take life in your hands. Take full responsibility for your happiness. And believe ...

SO PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THINGS.

Take this lady on the bus, a wonderful husband that supports her, several children and grandchildren that she loves, nevertheless she highlights only problems. She cant put her attention to the huge positive side of her life. And by selecting only the negative aspects of her life she creates a life of misery and depression to herself.

NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY.

Every single day we are building our reality, making choices ... and the more you are conscious of this process, of the possibility of creating your own life ... then the more you take life in your hands and make happiness happen.

Have you ever question yourself why do some people ... that have so many problems can still laugh, while others with such an easy life keep on mourning? Well thats just because some people see the positive side of life, while others dont.

Your mind is an amazing and a complicated thing. STOP! OBSERVE YOURSELF! PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE USEFUL THOUGHTS, on those thoughts that have the potential to sustain a healthy and enduring happiness. Of course there will always be hard times, there will always be sad times, but do not get hooked on them, and mainly ... do not get hooked on drugs, being them legal or illegal.

BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE

No Fear

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Trust the Silence

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On the Psychology of Meditation

by Claudio Naranjo & Robert Ornstein

"We can consider he process of meditation as similar to that of taking a vacation - leaving the situation, "turning off" our routine way of dealing with the external world for a period, later returning to find it "fresh", "new", "different", our awareness "deautomatized"."
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Viveka 2009

with Miguel Homem, Simão Monteiro and Bruno Teixeira






What a Yoga Retreat :)

It was a wonderful time to practice asanas, sing mantras, meditate, contemplate the beautiful nature around and talk about the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagvada Gita. For me it was a time to get inspired and try new things for my yoga classes, as well as enhancing my morning practice.

For whomever practices and/or teaches yoga these moments are valuable to learn new things, to explore oneself and exchange ideas and experiences with others, and to realize once and once again how broad and rich are the teachings of yoga.
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Meditation

Meditation is concerned with the development of a presence, a modality of being, which may be expressed or developed in whatever situation the individual may be involved.

This presence or mode of being transforms whatever it touches. If its medium is movement, it will turn into dance; if stillness, into living sculpture; if thinking, into the higher reaches of intuition; if sensing, into a merging with the miracle of being; if feeling, into love.

in On the Psychology of Meditation, by Claudio Naranjo & Robert Ornstein
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Yoga é a união com a nossa essência, parte do Absoluto.

Yoga é despir as máscaras e descobrirmos quem somos de facto.

Yoga é aceitarmo-nos tal como somos sem necessidade de fingir o que não somos.

Yoga é tomar consciência de que somos todos parte do mesmo, é sentir essa unidade com os outros e com o Universo.

Yoga é descobrir o balanço entre a acção e a não acção, entre a criação e o desapego.

Yoga é descobrirmos na relação com o nosso corpo todos os processos mentais e emotivos por que passamos.