Human beings have been swimming for millennia. According to Wikipedia, Stone Age cave drawings depict individuals swimming and there are written references in the Bible and the Greek poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" dating back 1,500 to 2,000 years. There are even Egyptian clay seals from...
Focusing the attention on a single object during the whole meditation session. This object may be the breath, a mantra, visualization, part of the body, external object, etc. As the practitioner advances, his ability to keep the flow of attention in the chos...
It is suspected that we have a finite supply of enzymes available to the body. So another words if we are not eating pounds of raw fruits and vegetables containing enzymes, periodically fasting or supplementing with essential oils and enzymes, we may not be getting all the enzymes to maintain...
The second major category of Jewish holidays is the rabbinic holidays. These are festivals or events which are not expressly mentioned in the Bible, but were developed later during the rabbinic period of Jewish history. One holiday that the rabbis developed — though did not originate — is the...
and rites celebrating the ending of fasts or fast periods.Fasting, the opposite of feasting, has often been associated with purification rites or as a preparatorydisciplinefor the celebration of feasts and associated rites. Festivals often include not only feasting but also dramatic dancing and athle...
This is similar to the Confucius discipline of “heart-mind fasting”, and it is regarded as “the natural way”. One simply allows all thoughts and sensations arise and fall by themselves, without engaging with or “following” any of them. If this is found to be too hard and “...