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At Jivamukti, (my yoga school) we always offer our practice to something or someone and each month there’s a different focus. The focus could be on “ahimsa” – the foundation of the yoga practice – on joy, meditation, it can even be something like gossip (who doesn’t need to work on that!). When I focus my attention I get really grounded. Spiritual life takes work and my mind is a terrible thing to waste – especially on negative thoughts or delusional actions.

For all you glorious Goddesses out there, I’d like to offer a “Focus of the Day”. If my focus feels right, swim in it. If not, create your own. Even if you decide not to fast with me, how about committing to a SUPER healthy day? Note: This is a comfort free zone so be willing to push beyond your voices. Read the rest of this entry »

Building Beautiful Russian Orthodox Church, did you see the magnificent buildings and beautiful is this? This is a historic building. A church in russia. Detailed design of this church really looks magnificent and very impressive. No one if the building of this church can become an inspiration for the architecture.

Which came first, the religious devotion or the self-control?

It takes self-discipline to sit through Sunday school or services at a temple or mosque, so people who start out with low self-control are presumably less likely to keep attending. But even after taking that self-selection bias into account, Dr.McCullough said there is still reason to believe that religion has a strong influence. Dr. McCullough. “For a long time it wasn’t cool for social scientists to study religion, but some researchers were quietly chugging along for decades. When you add it all up, it turns out there are remarkably consistent findings that religiosity correlates with higher self-control.”

As early as the 1920s, researchers found that students who spent more time in Sunday school did better at laboratory tests measuring their self-discipline. Subsequent studies showed that religiously devout children were rated relatively low in impulsiveness by both parents and teachers, and that religiosity repeatedly correlated with higher self-control among adults. Devout people were found to be more likely than others to wear seat belts, go to the dentist and take vitamins.

He said. “The rituals that religions have been encouraging for thousands of years seem to be a kind of anaerobic workout for self-control.

Brain-scan studies have shown that when people pray or meditate, there’s a lot of activity in two parts of brain that are important for self-regulation and control of attention and emotion