Work in Progress (2) — Mental Silence

By DivyaPosted on May 15, 2018May 15, 2018Cat Uncategorized3 Comments

Over the past few years I have realized that self-observation is a tedious process. For most instances there is no magic involved. It is a painstakingly slow and repetitive endeavour. But if done constantly and with conviction it gradually brings about a whole new perspective to life. There is an innate sense of adventure… Read More »

My Toolbox – Part 1 – Inner family system

By AditiPosted on May 5, 2018May 6, 2018Cat Self & Personality4 Comments

As promised in my previous blog, here is the next in series on the tools I use for self-observation and of course the ‘how’ of it. So to begin with, I need to answer two simple questions; what does ‘self’ mean to me and how do I differentiate between different parts of my own being… Read More »

Dream-notes that bring the Real close

By MatthijsPosted on May 1, 2018May 3, 2018Cat Miscellaneous musings, PoetryLeave a comment

A few passages on Love, Ananda and the new world by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother For there is, concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we… Read More »

Happily Ever After

By Navni GujralPosted on April 27, 2018April 27, 2018Cat Poetry, Self-development1 Comment

The days are turning like pages of a book. The story's called growth, and it stands for: Happily Ever After. Read More »

The Beginning

By AditiPosted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018Cat IPI, Self & PersonalityLeave a comment

8 years ago I turned to the discipline of psychology to seek answers to certain fundamental questions which have kept me busy almost all my life. I was looking for the sense of “I” which was not limited to the one that acts but something or someone more who is behind the one that performs.… Read More »

Work in Progress!

By DivyaPosted on April 13, 2018April 22, 2018Cat Self-development, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Over the past few years, in almost all the Indian Psychology Workshops that we organize here in Pondicherry, there is one particular topic that remains quite a favourite! We call it the preparation of our personalized toolbox. Unlike the normal mechanical toolbox, this particular one contains psychological tools and techniques that we can apply on… Read More »

Presenting mindfulness in a secular society

By Don SalmonPosted on December 12, 2017April 22, 2018Cat Teaching IP, Uncategorized2 Comments

Recently, on the online forum MIEN (Mindfulness in Education), there was a very interesting discussion about how to present mindfulness in an appropriate manner in secular classrooms. One of the suggestions was to simply offer it as attention training, and leave aside the frequent references to "compassion" and "loving-kindness meditation," and ultimately to leave aside… Read More »

What it really is

By Navni GujralPosted on October 30, 2017October 31, 2017Cat IPI, Poetry, Psychology5 Comments

He strokes my hair with sunlight and lays his palm before each step, so I may tread. When he whispers in my ear, the ocean dance begins, flowing waves of abundance. My heart is swelling from the pain of fullness and his smell in the air. There is much to say, but tonight I am… Read More »

About oceans

By Navni GujralPosted on September 29, 2017September 29, 2017Cat IPI, PoetryLeave a comment

It's settled, its official, the ocean resides in my heart. My heart is its birthplace and it is the home of my heart. They're married together by an inseparable knot. Whether this makes sense, when it got to this, how I reached here, I have no idea. Because not many years have passed since it… Read More »

Yoga Psychology in the Schools

By Don SalmonPosted on July 16, 2017April 22, 2018Cat Teaching IP, Uncategorized1 Comment

Yoga Psychology In The Schools: Some Insights from the Indian Tradition  By Don Salmon, PhD Introduction I am presently co-authoring, with Jan Maslow, a book entitled Through the Eyes of Infinity. In the book we will examine and integrate the theories and findings of psychology and other scientific disciplines within a larger yogic perspective. As an… Read More »