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The Blissful Brain is published by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your copy, please click here.

 

Guardian G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling

"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration, memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please click here.

 

The Times: Calm down dear by Angela Pertusini

"Claims by the neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja regarding the benefits of meditation have been backed up by rigourous scientific research and are explained in her acclaimed book The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof of the Power of Meditation". To read more, please click here.

 

Just this Day event: A Day of Silence and Stillness at St Martin's in the Field on 23rd of November 2011

Shanida Nataraja will be participating in this exciting event that aims to explore the power of silience and stillness in our busy world. For more information, please click here or visit the Just This Day website.

 

Mindfulness in the Workplace: Brain based approaches to improving employee resilience and productivity at Robinson College, Cambridge on 10 February 2012

Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at this day event that brings together leading experts in mindfulness to discuss how it could help organisations improve productivity & resiliance. Speakers include Professor Mark Williams, Michael Chaskalson, Ruby Wax, Margaret Chapman, and more (for more information, please see click here.

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Interrelatedness of All Things

The interrelatedness of all things is a prominent feature of the Perennial Philosophy. As we have seen, this states that there is an Ultimate Reality that gives rise to and transcends our physical reality. The limited reality that we can apprehend with the five physical senses is seen to be embedded within, and sustained by, a limitless Ultimate Reality.

One of the essential principles of mysticism is the awareness that all phenomena are manifestations of an all-pervading and interconnected Ultimate Reality, and accordingly should be viewed as being both interdependent and inseparable. In Hinduism this Ultimate Reality is referred to as Brahman, in Buddhism as Dharmakaya, in Taoism as Tao, and in esoteric Christianity as the Godhead. In all of these traditions, transcendental experiences of the Ultimate Reality are associated with a sense of all-pervading unity. The distinction between “self” and “non-self” dissolves, and the ordinary-state perception of this and that are viewed as an illusion. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the mystics refer to the Ultimate Reality as the Void. The Void is seen to be formless, but not empty; all matter is derived from it, and therefore it is viewed as the source of all life, a source of infinite potential. In the West, the word “void” is derived from the Latin word vacivus meaning empty. However, in Christianity, the “void” or “emptiness” is seen to be plenitude or “fullness”.

The idea that every single component of our Universe contains information about all of the other cosmic components is mirrored in the philosophy of the 5th Century Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. He proposed that nature was built up of an infinite number of minute parts, invisible to the eye, and that, contained within each of these minute parts, there are the fragments of all other things i.e. “the whole exists in each tiny part”. Similarly, in the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Ultimate Reality is pictured as being holographic in nature.

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