Heartfulness Magazine: Recent Episodes
Elizabeth Denley
Guidance and Tips to improve wellness and wellbeing - Based on Interviews and Articles from Heartfulness Magazine
KAJAL GUPTA shares her experience of first-time parenting, and how it has opened her awareness and helped her grow.
ACHARYA SHREE VARMA, also known as DR. KRISHNA VARMA, comes from a lineage ofAyurvedic doctors who have been practicing for over four centuries. With a vision to share thiswisdom with the wider humanity, he founded the Shree Varma Organization in 2001.Here, heisinterviewed byMARION MARCEAUfrom the Heartfulness Yoga Academy about theAyurvedic approach to mental health.
In September 2022, DAAJI released his bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the practical wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from chapter 18 on Principle 7: Youth Are the Future. Guide Them, Don’t Break Them
THOMAS STANLEY is a psychology master’s student based in Bristol, UK. He shares his awakening to the value of decluttering and Shintoism, and what they teach us about taking better care of our planet Earth.
SIDDHARTHAV. SHAH has been promoting art as a means of community engagement and social responsibility throughout his professional career. Recently he took up the role of Director of the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, and talks with VANESSA PATEL about how he is expanding his vision in this new college environment.
RAVI VENKATESAN takes us on a journey through the world of AI, charting its history and developments, and also exploring where we are headed.
KAJ HAMMARGREN is an athlete who has turned his life around from a very dark place in his twenties to serving others and bringing joy, all through a spiritual awakening and the practice of meditation. His story is an inspiring one!
DAAJI shares 4 simple practices to tune into the present moment and bring about a joyful, contented lifestyle. Doing these regularly will create sustainable peace.
RUBY CARMEN explores the often repressed emotion of grief, and shares some ways we can accept it, value the meaning behind it, and integrate it into our being as an expression of love.
DR. ICHAK ADIZES challenges the notion that smarter is always better. What is able to surface when we move beyond the intellect?
DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR describes the roles of the three doshas–the natural elements in our system–in our health and well-being. He also shares what can be done if one or more doshas are out of balance in order to restore health.
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his associates about the simple natural remedies that he learned and also discovered during his life in northern India. This month we share a couple of his remedies for insomnia.
Could Public Health Guidelines Help Stop Loneliness? KIFFER GEORGE CARD shares some thoughts and a lot of research on how we can address the pandemic of loneliness. He advocates coming together in a whole-of-society response, which means addressing the very problem he is seeking to solve.
GUY SHAHAR embarked on a career in energy healing with little understanding of what it entailed,after experiencing Dr. Bradley Nelson’s method, The Emotion Code. The results spoke for themselves.After becoming certified as a healer, Guy is now watching with the wonder how the method is unfolding and evolving,and how he is growing through the process.
DEEPAK CHOPRA was interviewed in Kanha Shanti Vanam on July 2, 2023, by EKTABOUDERLIQUE. From his perspective after an illustrious career bridging health,science and spirituality, he tackles the big questions of consciousness, existence, truth, and human evolution, and challenges science to re-assess the questions it is asking.
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from chapter 10 on Principle 5:Early Childhood Is the Foundation
ELIZABETH DENLEY shares some insights on reducing wants, cutting costs, and in the process living more sustainably on the planet. Even if you choose one tip and do it for a month, you will make a difference.
CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. In part 1, he dared us to realize that environmentalism will only work once we become nature lovers. In part 2, he focuses on the way forward,offering ways to heal the environment and ourselves.
The Womanifesto collective came together in Bangkok in the late 1990s to fulfill the need for an inclusive, creative and open-ended art platform for artists from Southeast Asia. It was primarily set up as an independent project run by women, and is now a globally recognized entity,involving multiple art forms and artists from all over the world. One of the coordinators,VARSHA NAIR,shares her experience of this movement and its evolution with VANESSA PATEL
VALENTINA TSAREV,SRIVIDYA VARADARAJAN, UTTARA VENUGOPAL, and UMA NATARAJAN are all yoga teachers who have experienced the benefits of yoga and Ayurveda at a young age. Here they share some key features of their use for health.
DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR continues to share some simple Ayurvedic tips for beautiful skin and overall good health, this time focusing on oils and herbs that are great for the skin.
Six years ago, A PADMAJI found herself confronting a frightening health diagnosis. Todayshe is in remission, and she shares her journey and her gratitude for the role allopathic and complementary medicine and Heartfulness played in her recovery. This uplifting story is a testament to her faith.
DAAJI dispels the myth that thoughts in meditation are bad, and helps us understand how to accept our thoughts in a constructive way, eventually leading to periods of thoughtlessness.
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his associates about the simple natural remedies that he learned and also discovered during his life in northern India. This month we share one of his remedies for anemia.
Karishma Desai shares her unique perspective on the integration of HeartMath and Heartfulness practices and research, and how this collaboration leads us to a bright future.
Llewellyn Vaughan - Lee looks back on a life of learning about love in its many forms and faces, from the most human to the most esoteric, and what it means to him that love is the source of all that exists.
George Okurut is a yoga teacher in vulnerable communities.He workswithpoor children inKampala, Uganda. These projects have created yoga awareness,andmental healthawareness, improving the livelihoods of people. George is a certifiedyoga teacherfromS-VYASA Yoga University in India,andSatyananda Children’sYoga at Yoga Pura Vida inTanzania
DAAJI speaks about the role of the heart in healing, and the important aspects of a healthy life. He explains the concept of total health and how we can attain it through yoga.
SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN shares a personal story of crisis, courage, and the clarity that gave him a solution in a life and death situation.
CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. He also dares us to realize that it will only work once we become nature lovers.
POOJA KINI shares one of her simple superfood salads to brighten up your Monday and give you a burst of nutrients.
DAN ALDER explores the topic of mental well-being during a Yoga4Unity 2023 masterclass. He asks: how does thesage Patanjali view the mind? What does Patanjali believe to be our potential,what gets in the way of us attaining that potential, and what solutions are offered to us to remove those barriers?
SNEHAL DESHPANDE enlightens us on how pre-conception, conception and pregnancy, and the first year of life affect our later psychology and physical well-being.
DR. ROLLIN McCRATY, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute,gave an online presentation to the Heartfulness international conference, “An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,” at Kanha Shanti Vanamin December 2022. In part 2,he shares more about coherence at the individual, group, and global levels.
SRIRAM RAGHAVENDRAN shares some wise words and his personal experience of managing peer pressure when he was at college.
DR. ICHAK ADIZES has been helping organizations to manage change for over forty years. His recent publication, How to Manage in Times of Crisis,is based on material from his talks during 2008 addressing the world financial crisis. But it is even more relevant today when human crises are multi-dimensional.
DR. PRASAD VELUTHANAR shares some simple Ayurvedic tips for beautiful skin and overall good health.
EDDIE STERN has been practicing and studying yoga since he was fifteen, and was drawn by India and the yogic life. Here he explains the science of yoga, and how the practices affect both physical and mental well-being.
DAAJI explores the topic of destiny, including our own role in determining our future, as well as the roles other people, circumstances, and the environment play. He shares with us some practices and attitudes that help to make the most out of life.
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his associates about thesimple natural remedies that he learned and also discovered during his life innorthern India. This month we share one of his remedies forfever
Dr. SARA LAZAR is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus ofher research is on the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. Here she speaks about how meditation impacts the brain.
STANISLAS LAJUGIE explains how we can cultivate the habit of happiness, even though our nervous system is wired for negativity. He gives us 3 simple steps to cultivate a happier disposition.
DR. ICHAK ADIZES leads us through an evolutionary journey from pre-human times up to today. He looks at what qualities and attributes leaders have needed, and he predicts why, in the future, it will be the heart.
MAMATA VENKAT SUBRAMANYAM explains how heart-based meditative practices have helped her turn feeling lonely into savoring alone time.
DAAJI shares two simple practices to remove heaviness from your system, become light and carefree, and reduce your thought footprint in the world.
During his lifetime, BABUJI shared a wealth of knowledge to his associates about the simple natural remedies that he learned and also discovered during his life in northern India. This month we share one of his remedies for the common cold.1
VICTOR KANNAN explores the nature of gentleness, and why it brings lightness in its wake.
ELIZABETH DENLEY is currently living in the Central Highlands of Victoria in Australia, surrounded by natural forest. Why is this experience of living so close to Nature worth sharing? It has reawakened a more natural wild intelligence in her, the wild intelligence she remembers from childhood, which offers solutions to the current crises humanity faces.
In December 2022, DR. ROLLIN McCRATY, Director of Research at the Heart Math Institute, gave an online presentation at the international Heartfulness conference, “An Integrative Approach to Health and Well-being,” at Kanha Shanti Vanam. Here we share some highlights from his talk.
CHRISTIAN MACKETANZ is an artist and Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany. He shares his love of Nature and creativity, and how they both relate to the spiritual aspect of existence.
In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from the chapter on Principle 4: Happy Mothers Make Happy Families.
This month, DAAJI recommends three happiness habits. He also shares wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita, and from modern writers, to inspire us with confidence and help us on our way toward lasting happiness.
On International Day of Peace, September 21, 2021, DR. ICHAK ADIZES shared his experience on the future of management with members of the Heartfulness Institute, USA. In part 2, he highlights the need for differences, integration, and complementary teams based on mutual trust and respect.
DR. ZACH BUSH inspires us with hope for the future, and the paradigm shift that is happening right now. He reminds us to focus on beauty, and our capacity to hold the light.
NATE MORELL celebrates the healing beauty of the dawn and a beautiful sunrise. Through this connection with nature, he also discovers the purpose of our human existence.
Do you dream of becoming a positive force and a beacon of hope in your community? What does it take to become that person? The key lies within you. The first step is to prepare yourself – to create an inner state of contentment and steadiness – and this month DAAJI offers a very practical approach to doing just that.
RAJESH MENON is a wildlife photographer and environmental conservationist living in North India. Here he shares some ideas for solutions to the animal-human conflicts that are apparent in all regions of the world today.
JUDITH NELSON introduces a new series for 2022 that highlights and explores ways to integrate different perspectives on various topical issues.
On the International Day of Peace, September 21, 2021, DR ICHAK ADIZES shared his experience on the future of management with members of the Heartfulness Institute, USA. In part 1, he explores the way societies and businesses have changed through human history, and what are the qualities we need in today’s world to take us into the future.
Most resolutions fail because they aren’t compelling enough. This year, choose goals that keep inspiring you. One treasure trove of inspiration is the Bhagavad Gita, so DAAJI will be sharing this timeless wisdom and offering us practical tools for new beginnings to move forward.