The Power of Positive Thinking
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate,” as Norman Vincent Peale emphasises in “The Power of Positive Thinking”.
Ask yourself what is positive thinking? Write it down.
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How to Practise Letting Go?
Over the following months, I will share concepts related to yoga and meditation on the Peace Blog. This week, the topic is ‘letting go’. Something that we all have needed from time to time, just so that we can get on with our lives, and leave the past, the pain, the grudges, and in some cases even joys behind.
Are We Still Social?
I am thinking, how social are we nowadays? We share a lot of things on Facebook, we connect through LinkedIn, we post on Twitter. But does all this make us social?
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The White Dress Code of the Peace Revolution Meditation Retreat
Once you arrive in the Mooktawan Sanctuary in Koh Yai Noi Island, in Thailand, you have to wear white clothes. Many people would ask: why wear white?
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Lesson 3: Better to Ask for Forgiveness Than for Permission?
This quote is from a mentor I had years ago. He was the CEO of a big company who always wanted to share with the youth his secrets to enjoy life. I remember he had a big room in the house of his foundation and he call it: “Think Tank”.
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Healthy Vegan “Mousse au Chocolat” for Breakfast
Yes, I know, you may say it is a dessert… Well, while enjoying fruits for breakfast or before a meal, we can find a much more creative way to savour these fruits, adding our favourite tiny pleasure, chocolate or cocoa. Eating fruits before your meal helps to sustain a healthy diet, but also helps your digestive system.
Meditation: the Ancient Medicine of the Future
It’s certainly not a coincidence that both the words ‘medicine’ and ‘meditation’ come from the same etymological root: the Greek prefix “med”, which alludes to a medium point in between two opposites or, in other words, to that subtle state of balance we hear so much about in health blogs and yoga lessons but rarely get the chance to truly interiorize. In this brief post I’ll share my experience of meditation as the most effective, universal and low-cost medicine I have ever tried.
Be Happy, Practise Gratitude!
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
How many times have you had that feeling of never-having-enough or never-being-enough? You would expect to be naturally wired for gratitude and not something that you have to practise, right?