A diminished flow of life-force is the root cause of disease. If we wait until we’re sick and then address only the symptoms, we will be caught up in a pernicious cycle of disease.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
Spiritual Directors of Ananda Sangha Worldwide
Spiritual Development
Christ’s Resurrection: Its Meaning for Us
One of the most dramatic stories in the Bible is Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and his arrest, crucifixion, and subsequent resurrection. There are many lessons in it.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Attuning to the Will of God
Each of us has countless opportunities to do God’s will, but it’s not always easy to know what it is or to follow it if it goes against our desires.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
The Way of Ananda Sanghis
Yogananda said that the most useless prayer is to pray for immortality. Why pray for something you already have?
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Dealing with Fear
Fear is a pernicious problem that shuts down our life-force, and starts a negative cycle that becomes self-reinforcing. Fortunately, there are ways to reverse this cycle.
Health and Healing, Spiritualizing Daily Life
The Miracle of Forgiveness
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because the desire for vengeance is a karmic cage that imprisons both individuals and cultures into enduring suffering.
Happiness, Spiritualizing Daily Life
How to Bring Joy into Everything You Do
There is a refreshing and inspiring quality of joy in the Indian culture that pops up in everyone from cab drivers to professors.
Happiness
The Joy of Self-Offering
Self-offering is a natural step for the devotee when our love for God has deepened through the practice of devotion.
Swami Kriyananda
If God Is for Everyone, Then Why Isn’t Everyone for God?
Not everyone is for God primarily due to the power of desire. The path to freedom lies in gradually refining our desires, making them purer and more expansive.
Happiness, Health and Healing
How to Overcome Suffering
Much of our suffering comes from two sources: the force of delusion and our own karma.
Success
Intensity is Everything!
Many people stumble through life with painful slowness, their efforts blocked by lack of intensity.
Health and Healing, Meditation, Spiritualizing Daily Life
Dealing with Stress
Unhealthy levels of stress usually come from trying to control the uncontrollable. As yogis we want to find release from addiction to excitement and delusion. Your power lies in choosing how you respond.
Spiritualizing Daily Life
Aligning Yourself with Spirit
Dwapara Yuga is challenging the old thought forms of Kali Yuga. Our challenge, if we want to be happy, is to align ourselves with what God now wants for the planet.
Spiritual Development
The Spiritual Power of Christmas
The Christ consciousness has the power to transform our lives just as the birth of Jesus transformed the world.
Meditation
How to Overcome Restlessness in Meditation
To overcome restlessness, we need to make a strong, conscious effort to focus our thoughts and actions. As long as we habitually skip from one activity to the next, one thought to the next, our restlessness prevents us from experiencing calmness, the doorway to peace and happiness.
Happiness, Health and Healing
Moving Energy into Positive Patterns
The liberating concept underlying so much of Yoganananda’s teachings is that we aren’t our habits, our personalities, or even bodies, but WE ARE ENERGY.
Health and Healing, Meditation
How to Relax the Mind
Brain cells get exhausted by too much worry, hard work or thinking. Relaxation is found by changing the focus of your concentration. A hobby, a sport, yoga postures, or a change of environment can all give you real and lasting relaxation.