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5 Reasons to Drink Tap Water and the Best Water Filters
If you want to help the environment, and your wallet, there is something you can do right away and make a big difference: Consume tap water instead of bottled water. Americans consume an average of 28 billion bottles of water a year. That is an unfathomable waste. Here are our top 5 reasons to consume [...]
Rare Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse May 20th 2012
Here are some pictures of the amazing and rare total solar eclipse last Sunday. The photos were taken at Marble Canyon, beautiful Navajo land in Arizona. It was an exhilarating experience to witness such beauty and power. Anyone else got to see the eclipse? At the height of the eclipse the sun started [...]
Excerpts from the new album “Best of Relaxing Classical Indian Music”
We invite you to take a few minutes and enjoy excerpts from the newest release from Music for Deep Relaxation Physical CD and MP3s available at Amazon Also available at iTunes
Meditation Music – Be Calm Within by Andrew Hodge | May 6, 2009
Meditation is not easily definable: depending upon the context, there can be many different types of meditation and thus many different definitions. Let us compare two definitions from authorities we can rely upon. The first definition is from that great tome, ‘The Encyclopedia Britannica’. It defines meditation as ‘private devotion or mental exercise consisting in [...]
Relaxation Through Meditation Music by Andrew Hodge | June 18, 2009
“If music be the food of love, play on.” wrote the great Bard more than seven centuries earlier, and the statement is as true today as it was then. Music has always been a very important part of human civilisation and its importance in the development of human society cannot be undermined. Just like its [...]
The Power of Mantra Chanting: Why and How to Chant by Gyan Rajhans for About.com
“Mananaat traayate iti mantrah” (That which uplifts by constant repetition is a Mantra.) Sound Is Power I firmly believe that the sound of Mantra can lift the believer towards the higher self. These sound elements of Sanskrit language are permanent entities and are of everlasting significance. In the recitation of Sanskrit Mantras the sound is [...]
The Power of Music: With brains wired for song, we derive pleasure, feel less pain and transcend our body’s limits by Judy Foreman, Boston Globe | October 29, 2007
Dan Ellsey, 33, was sitting in his wheelchair in a soulless room at Tewksbury Hospital, his virtually useless arms and weak torso strapped to the chair for safety. Suddenly, as soon as we were introduced, he arched his back, grinned broadly, and aimed the riveting power of his dark brown eyes at me, as [...]
Amazing Power of Music Revealed by Robin Lloyd, LiveScience | October 15, 2008
More than 7,000 runners who raced earlier this month in a half-marathon in London were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant — pop music. The dance-able, upbeat music at London’s “Run to the Beat” race was selected on the basis of the research and consultation of sport psychologist Costas [...]