Happily Ever After
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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 »
Whose kite is the sun?
Whose kite is the sun? Who fills the rosebud's red? Who drinks from the moon-jug and spills out the ocean? Who led my hands unchained, to join the white-winged free bird, laughing from above at the prison in the playground? Now they're busy lighting fires by a tent pitched in the stars for the face… Read More »
Integrating contemplative practices
ESSENCE OF ALL PRACTICE: The intention to open to the presence and action of God/The Dharmadatu/Allah/a well harmonized brain functioning intuitively beyond the small self (ie surrender of the small self to a greater functioning). As Krishna puts it at the end of the Gita, “Abandoning all Dharmas (practices, rules, guidelines) surrender to Me, and… Read More »
Ocean of Light
Never could I have dreamt of the Beauty of floating in an Ocean of Light enveloping gently all that I am But where it starts or ends is not skin or centre of sight which lends itself to the perception but merely is a contraption for the centreless centre the stuffless stuff The One… Read More »