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Mindfulness walk in raleigh, NC

Lake Pine Trail at 2200 Laura Duncan Road, Apex, NC, is a 2.0-mile loop trail near Apex, North Carolina. A mindful walk was organized on Jul 22 at 5.30 pm

Lake Pine Trail at 2200 Laura Duncan Road, Apex , NC, i s a 2.0- mile loop rail near Apex , North Carolina. This area is trendy for scenic views , bird-watching, biking, and running. The trail i s full y paved and easy to walk, with shady, dense, luscious green trees , a lovely lake, birds , and much more. Raleigh G O D organized a one-hour mindfulness walk on behalf of LTSF on 7/22/23 at @5: 30pm. We had about 11 people who participated in the walk and enjoyed it thoroughly . We gathered at the shelter towards the end, where one of the volunteers , Mathangi ji gave an excellent talk on the relationship between the brain, heal th, and mental well-being. She s tar ted by explaining the par t s of the brain and their funct ions . She then discussed how nature walks can be a great feast for our eyes and how they s low down thought s and calms our mind.

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Reality Retreat Sessions in Bay Area,CA

Reality retreat sessions in Bay Area

Love to Share Foundation’s Bay Area chapter had its first Reality Retreat on the 23rd and 24th of April 2018  in two different locations, San Jose and San Ramon respectively.

Mr. M.K. Ramanujam, who guided us through this session helped us discover our true nature of peace and bliss through the calming practice of mantra meditation.

Mr. M.K. Ramanujam, very beautifully explained that meditation is not the first step but the penultimate step to perfection and he showed how we could meditate upon a sound- a Manthra, to silence the mind.

Manthras are powerful words which by nature has the ability to silence the mind.B ut the questions arises – How to silence the mind with a sound?

Ramanujamji explained this paradox with an analogy. He said, in order to prevent a plain neat compound wall being suddenly invaded by unwanted posters, its not just enough if we remove them all, but we also need to stick another message that would say – “Stick no posters” and we need to hold on to this  poster until we are assured that there would be no other new ones on the wall. Likewise in order to silence the mind, we need it to hold on to a mantra – until the mind is devoid of all unnecessary thoughts. That’s why the meaning of the mantra is -“mananAth thrayathe ithi mantra” – that which the mind can hold on to and that which protects the mind from unwanted thoughts.

Ramanujamji, demonstrated this with the powerful mathra called the “mahamanthra” and he used a simple technique to practice this meditation by slowly draw the mind inside from outside with this manthra – first physicaly by calling out the sound, then a little subtle(sookshmam) by imitation of the sound by mumbling and finally very subtle(athi sookshmam) as a thought in the mind.

All those who had gathered for this retreat session thoroughly felt revitalized and were amazed to learn this very simple technique of meditation to calm the mind.  Close to 80 people attended the reality retreat workshops on both days.

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