Kaivalya Centre - Kaivalya Centre: Awakening your Potential

You can create your world

Every day we write the script of our lives, and yet we disregard this amazing ability to create our own world. Upon awakening in the morning, we sometimes dread the day ahead or simply arise without giving it much thought. And then life happens. We react, or respond, to the unfolding of events, but often not to the best of our ability. "Good" events generate satisfaction; unpleasant or unexpected events can create dissatisfaction, or even anger. So days pass by and we "go with the flow" of what life gives us. But deep down, a part of us knows that we have this amazing untapped potential and could perhaps manifest it more, if only we could attend to it. If we want to manifest more joy, more love, more patience, we can do just that by simply planning for it.

As a consulting hypnotist, I have learned that we can change the moods that color our world and plan our daily actions by applying very simple and efficient techniques.

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Particles of sand: the art of meditation

Excerpts from an interview with Lynne Cardinal by Tanya Witteveen, undertaken as research for her master's thesis. Tanya is working on her Master of Arts degree in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa.

Tanya: Lynne, could you explain the process of meditation?

Lynne: Meditation is a tool to help settle the mind, to create a sense of peacefulness within. Once that is achieved, a new type of awareness emerges, a perspective that is impossible to attain with an overactive or anxious mind. According to Ken Wilber, a contemporary philosopher of international acclaim, "Meditation empirically demonstrates techniques that will increase self-esteem." Indeed, meditation provides us with a confidence or a sense of self that is peaceful, stable and unshakable. This confidence is not based on superiority, but rather on the knowledge that our true essential existence is eternally free.

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Why Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a powerful and highly effective practice, despite it being somewhat unknown or misunderstood. I'm convinced that it's one of the best-kept secrets for self-improvement, with the capacity to impact all areas of life. For example, within just a few months, I managed to lose not only the annoying ten extra pounds that seemed to have become a permanent fixture in my life, but an additional ten pounds--and still going. Amazed at this result, I soon realised that hypnosis can be applied to just about any issue, as its foundational principles are easily adapted.

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Meditation: Witnessing the Power of Thoughts

Meditation: Witnessing the Power of Thoughts

"Every day, most of us [...] are engaging in a common activity--worrying.  After all, what is worrying?  It is making up a negative thought in our mind to which our body responds--with tears, increased heart rate and blood pressure, irregular breathing, increased muscle tension, stomach tension, etc.  One thought has caused millions of cellular biochemical reactions."[i]

"Finding the balance between observing our circuitry [thought patterns] and engaging with our circuitry is essential for our healing." [ii]

Thoughts have tremendous power, yet they are subtle, mostly automatic, and arise so rapidly that we barely recognize their presence. There is in our mind an on-going conversation which is triggered by habit patterns, pre-acquired concepts, expectations and ideas.

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Yoga for your health

"The bottom line is that yoga is an exercise that is food for the heart."
Dr. Noel Bairey Merz; Medical Director Cardiac Center at Cedars Sanai Medical Center, Los Angeles

"Fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen-twice as many as did five years ago." Time Magazine

 

Yoga is a natural way to slow down and live with greater awareness. It is an ancient proven tradition that exists since thousands of years. Actually, Yoga at the workplace has become extremely popular in many companies, nationwide.

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