Category: In the Press

Listening to music to enhance meditation while practicing yoga is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most important is to select music that you enjoy listening to and music which serves the purpose you’re trying to achieve. One…

The Arlington Institute, which markets itself by its tagline and matching logo of World’s Biggest Problems, insists that the most serious threats facing us as Earth-inhabitants are climate change, peak oil, water crisis, species extinction and economic collapse. In other words, we’ve already tipped the scales by producing more people than we can house, feed,…

Listening to music while practising yoga to enhance meditation is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most important is to select music that you enjoy listening to and music which serves the purpose you’re trying to achieve. One…

Modern life is fast-paced and can often feel aggressively demanding. With the constant expectation that we should fill every day with activity, we often forget to take time out for ourselves and reset. Something as simple as listening to music can provide us with that much-needed boost to get our work finished and see us…

An interfaith radio station, playing some of the world’s most beautiful sacred music has just been launched.  Sacred Music Radio which plays 24 hours a day,  features religious and sacred pieces of music from the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Islamic faiths, as well as music not directly connected with any specific religion. Michael…

Music’s Impact on Happiness. Almost everyone has experienced the beneficial effects of music in one way or another; it can help us to relax and unwind even during stressful times, can improve our levels of motivation and focus, and can uplift our emotions and improve our relationships, helping us to connect more deeply and with…

The Spiritual Meaning of Christmas… Something I often hear people worrying about in the weeks leading up to Christmas is the way in which Christmas is losing its meaning, and becoming focused on consumerism. But what is the meaning of this time of year? The winter festival predates all organized religions by millennia; we celebrate…

When it gets closer to this time of year, many people often say that Christmas and the passing of the solstice has lost it’s meaning, with the focus on consumerism becoming larger every year. But what is ‘the meaning’ of this time of year? Christmas is celebrated in the winter festival because it aligns with…

Listening to music to enhance your meditation  while practicing yoga is more of a controversial idea than you might expect. For some people, it just seems to work; for others, it’s a distraction. What’s most important is to select music that you enjoy listening to and music which serves the purpose you’re trying to achieve….