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What You Need To Know About The Stress Response (Part 1)

What You Need To Know About The Stress Response (Part 1)

Well, there is bad news and good news… let’s start with the bad news, with reference to the ‘father of stress research’ the Hungarian endocrinologist, Hans Selye.⁣
Selye developed the ‘general adaptation syndrome’ model which describes the impact stress has on the human body. Each time the body is exposed to a potential stressor (demand, change in expectation, pressure etc.) it has a limited amount of adaptation energy to cope or deal with the demand.

Become The Sanctuary

Become the sanctuary

Have you noticed how we isolate our time to rest, to switch off, to holiday periods? You feel rested and refreshed only to open your inbox to 165 unread emails or go into overdrive getting the kids ready for school etc.? Our next thought is often, when is my next holiday?

MeditationDan SnowFebruary 23, 2023Dan Snow Meditationmeditation, stability, balance, stress, adaptation, sufficiency, grounded, happiness, rest

Self Sufficiency

A self sufficient practice that leads to a life of self sufficiency

Vedic meditation is a self sufficient practice meaning we are not reliant on anything external to us (app, class, guiding voice) to practice it. All we need is some back support and somewhere to safely close our eyes. Noise is no barrier, movement around us is no barrier.

Vedic Meditators are not reliant on focusing or emptying the mind to experience deep inner contentedness during our practice.

Mind Reset

Practicing Vedic Meditation gives the mind the chance to reset, twice a day. ⁣
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It allows us to move beyond the layer of beliefs and stories that loop through our mind each day. The stories about who we are, the things we think we need to acquire to feel satisfied and the people or things that stand in our way of acquiring those things. ⁣

Consciousness, MeditationDan SnowFebruary 24, 2022Dan Snow Meditationtranscend, fulfilment, happiness, baseline

The Medium Is The Message

The Medium is the Message

When we take a rusty, steel chisel and carve a line into granite, it leaves a deep and lasting impression.

When we take that same rusty, steel chisel and carve a line into sand, it leaves an impression that, over some time, will disappear.

Take that same rusty, steel chisel again and carve a line into water. On this occasion, no impression is left.

In life, we are constantly being challenged by the ‘chisels’, the demands of our experiences, whether they relate to the pressures of work, family, love or society. We all face these demands, no one is exempt. The message lies not in the demand itself or how intense it is but rather who we are and how we deal with such demands.

MeditationDan SnowFebruary 11, 2021Dan Snow Meditationhappiness, meditation, adaptation, stress

How To Sustain Happiness In This 'Happy New Year'

Happy New Year

The earth has made one more revolution around the sun and as my friend Cindy recently said, we are reminded again to be happy. Be happy. How do we ‘be happy’? What is the source of our happiness and how do we stay happy? The source of our happiness is either external to us, which is called Object Referral Happiness, or it is internal, called (Self Referral) Baseline Happiness.

Meditation, ConsciousnessDan SnowJanuary 18, 2021Dan Snow Meditationhappiness, meditation

Our True Nature

Vedic Meditation doesn’t just provide us with a systematic way of releasing stress from the physiology. It gives us a twice daily reminder of our true nature. When we allow the mind to settle to its least excited state of awareness, a state beyond thoughts, we make contact with bliss and we realise we are much more than our thoughts and emotions and we are not bound by the physical body.

Meditation, NatureDan SnowMay 18, 2020Dan Snow Meditationmeditation, fulfilment, happiness, baseline, nature