...ess, and despair. Lets put hopelessness on hold, while we work on laughing and smiling more often. Laughing is also an effective tool for ridding ourselves of negative energy.

Maybe a Laughter yoga class is not for you, but you can watch a short comedy, or share a few laughs with friends. The truth is we all need to laugh throughout the day. If this is still difficult, you can practice smiling. Your reward will be the attraction of good friends who also smile and have a sense of humor, which is much better than attracting friends who scowl at everything.

Why is it difficult to laugh, even when we know laughing and smiling are good for our health? The ego, which is our social mask, does not want to lose control of the mind. The ego does not want to share power with your inner child. The reason is obvious: When we enjoy ourselves too much; we take power a...more

Distance learning Courses for yoga Instructor Training

...gram? The fact is many people cannot afford to leave their families, and employment, for weeks, or months, at a time. Many yoga instructors outside of India are female, have children, work a full-time job, maintain a home, and some of these women are going to college at night.

With this in mind, the concept of a distance learning yoga instructors training course, developed for certification, is convenient and affordable. Truthfully, many interns do shop for an affordable certification, to become a teacher of yoga.

A yoga teacher certification, in Thailand, may be affordable, but what will the cost of a flight be? Just the cost of travel, by round trip flight, to Thailand or India, could be, in the neighborhood of, $3,000 USD, from North Ame...more

Karmic yoga and the Necessary Mindset

...hen selling it to buy drugs to sell to other people, that is when you are engaged in Karmic yoga. That is when you are face to face with your self and all of the social mores and norms about what you should do and what this person deserves. The struggle between the normal reaction of lashing out, and the action that comes from the greater insight that this person has been conditioned to do this by his or her life circumstances and the outcome are Karmic yoga.

It is not done in a place of comfort. It is not done with a smile on your face all of the time. You are not rested all the time when you do it. You dont even feel like doing it sometimes. This is Karmic yoga.

Like everything else, however, there is another side to it. There are people who are very thankful, loving and kind who you meet along the way. You touch their lives deeply. Some of them can pull themselves up out of hunger, poverty and crime, just because you have been working with them. It is as if you, like the hand of God, are supplying their needs and helping them to grow and become strong...more

Yoga's Formula For Happiness - Living Life to Maximum Potential

...the path of happiness? Hopefully, you see my point. The path to happiness does not have to be a long and winding road. You can choose to surround yourself with happy people. You can choose to avoid the company of negative people.

This is not a complicated method for enjoying life. You will notice when you often think happy thoughts, positive and happy people are magnetized to you. Take the time to absorb the positive energy and la...more

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