Yoga is an ancient practice dating back to India thousands of years ago designed to help you reach a more positive and focused outlook on life, as well as a sense of peace. Yoga itself is the Sanscrit word meaning “union with the divine,” though western Yoga is a lot less spiritual than it was originally.

Here are the reasons why you should take up Yoga today:

1. It’s a good workout, plain and simple.

Yoga improves your overall fitness, flexibility, strength, endurance, and your mental health too. No mater what level of difficulty your poses, it’s a fantastic workout routine.

2. You get in touch with your whole body, spirit and all.

Yoga is designed for you to get to know the temple of your body. As a result, while doing yoga, you need to take the time to listen to what your body is telling you...

You already know that life is full of surprises, and you have a whole bunch of surprises coming up, surprises that will surprise, the kind of surprise that you like to have surprise you, the kind of surprise that will make you jump for joy and help you to know that that there is a God, a God Who loves you.

You will bump into someone you never expected to see again, or meet someone new you never expected you would. Something wonderful will occur. It could fall from the sky. It could be a thought you have. Whatever it may be, it will help you to start believing in love again and the love in your heart and that, perhaps, you are lovable and capable of loving and being loved as well. It’s time for you to hang your hopes on a star.

For a long time, you may have been someone who didn’t dare to get your hopes up. I am extolling you now to get your hopes up. Whatever you are seeking, look for it around every corner. Start looking up and welcome happiness, whatever form it takes for you, know that it has been sent to you on this occasion.

It is not really that you are getting a new lease on life. It’s that you start turning your thoughts in the right direction. I have heard you mumble such sacrilege as: “What I want will never happen. I am always disappointed. I never get what I want. I don’t even know anymore what would make me happy. I’ve given up on happiness. I will be happy enough just when trouble stays away from me.”

What is memory? — calling up of past experiences. Continuously, memory is happening. Whenever you see something, immediately memory comes in and distorts it. You have seen me before. You see me again, immediately memory comes in. If you had seen me five years before, then the picture of five years, the past picture, will come into your eyes and fill your eyes. And you will see me through that picture.

That’s why, if you have not seen your friend for many days, the moment you see you immediately say, “You are looking very thin,” or “You are looking very unhealthy,” or “You have gathered fat.” Immediately! Why? Because you are comparing; the memory has come in. The man himself is not aware that he has gathered fat or he has become thin, but you become aware because immediately you can compare. The past, the last picture comes in, and immediately you can compare.

One of the Sufis, Junaid, came to an old fakir, and he asked him, “I have heard that you know. Show me the path.” The old man said, “You have heard that I know. You don’t know. Look at me and feel.” The man said, “I cannot feel anything. Just do one thing: show me the path where I can find my Master.” So the old man said, “You go first to Mecca. Have the pilgrimage and search such and such a man. He will be sitting under a tree. His eyes will be such: they will be throwing light, and you will feel a certain perfume like musk around him. Go and seek.”

And Junaid traveled and traveled for twenty years. Wherever he heard a Master is, he will go. But neither the tree was there, nor the perfume, the musk, nor those eyes the old man has described. The personality was not there. And he had a ready-made formula, so he will judge immediately, ”This is not my Master,” and he will move ahead. After twenty years he reached under a tree.

Especially if you come from a rough and tumble fight-it-out kind of family, dating a highly sensitive person can be a shock to you and them too. About 20% of the population identifies as being extremely sensitive. So with that in mind, these are the 7 things you know before you date a sensitive person.

1. They’re extremely sensitive to the emotions of others.

Sensitive people don’t just get their feelings hurt easily – that’s not what sensitivity is about. One of their traits is feeling the emotions of other people. If something happens to a friend or relative of your sensitive partner, even if they are somewhat detached from that person, they still need support during that time.

2. They’re sensitive to their surroundings.

HJ: Those who are masters of communication experience greater ease, flow, influence and happiness in life.  In one sense or another, the planet runs on communication.  It is the lubricant of the machine of life.  We are always communicating in some way shape or form, either verbally or non-verbally.  And therefore learning to communicate properly, which is something seldom taught in school, is an essential skill for getting the most out of life and enriching all of your relationships.

- Truth

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