by Nischala Joy Devi.May 7, 2013. Imagery, our inner guidance, allows us to create and experience. It is the language of the mind. The mind speaks in images and then translates those images into words. When we listen to words or concepts, we interpret them in ways we...
by Nischala Joy Devi. April 30, 2013. When you experience something like a wedding or take another uplifting, joyous, major step in your life it brings your awareness into the higher chakras. When you experience something that's focused on a higher chakra, when you're...
by Nischala Joy Devi.April 23, 2013. One of the sweetest yoga practices is Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of devotion, the yoga of love. Unlike many of the practices that tend toward precise instructions, there is no right or wrong way to love. Each one of us, in our own way,...
by Nischala Joy Devi.April 16, 2013. The word "compassion" is such a beautiful word; soft and gentle, it is comprised of two parts: com, meaning "with," and passion, meaning "any intense emotion, either pleasurable or painful." Many times it is difficult to know...
by Nischala Joy Devi. April 9, 2013. I was talking with a friend about the thought waves in her mind, explaining that all these little waves do not allow clear reflection; so whatever we see becomes distorted. She chuckled and said, "Come with me." We drove to the...
by Nischala Joy Devi.April 2, 2013. Our own breath provides a beautiful meditation. When we observe the breath, we begin to join the outer world with the inner world. As the waves gently come onto the earth and return to the sea, so our breath enters the body and then...
by Nischala Joy Devi. March 26, 2013. Of the many books and theories of chakras, very few agree on the chakras' characteristics. While most agree that they do exist in the subtle, it's from each individual's own vibrational field and from where we perceive that we...
by Nischala Joy Devi. March 19, 2013. There is a wonderful practice in yoga that is a simple and direct way to keep our minds calm and our hearts open. It is called pratipaksha bhavana. It means to make an unpleasant or unwanted thought or attitude into the opposite....
by Nischala Joy Devi.March 14, 2013. Our story as women is filled with seers, healers, and visionaries who formed an integral part of society. But most of them were not scholars or intellectuals; they were mostly unassuming people, living ordinary lives while...
by Nischala Joy Devi. March 5, 2013. Can we really survive if our energy source is cut off? It seems unlikely. Yet many people talk about a chakra being closed. Usually this means that the energy from that whirling vortex is in a tamasic (dull, lazy) state and moving...