Opening of Cebu Theosophical Society Study Center.

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Come and learn the art of Yoga and the cleansing effect of a vegetarian diet. Hear what it can do to your mind and body. Be there!


Benefits of Yoga: Health Benefits of Yoga

Mental Benefits

Mental Calmness: Yoga asana practice is intensely physical. Concentrating so intently on what your body is doing has the effect of bringing a calmness to the mind. Yoga also introduces you to meditation techniques, such as watching how you breathe and disengagement from your thoughts, which help calm the mind.

Stress Reduction: Physical activity is good for relieving stress, and this is particularly true of yoga. Because of the concentration required, your daily troubles, both large and small, seem to melt away during the time you are doing yoga. This provides a much-needed break from your stressors, as well as helping put things into perspective. The emphasis yoga places on being in the moment can also help relieve stress, as you learn not to dwell on past events or anticipate the future. You will leave a yoga class feeling less stressed than when you started. Read more about yoga for stress management here.

Body Awareness: Doing yoga will give you an increased awareness of your own body. You are often called upon to make small, subtle movements to improve your alignment. Over time, this will increase your level of comfort in your own body. This can lead to improved posture and greater self-confidence.

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Conquering Fear

I. Importance

Fear is a primary cause of unhappiness. It prevents a person from dealing with problems effectively. He or she is not able to develop his full potential because of fear to try.

II. Nature of Fear

Fear is our reaction to a threat (such as violence) or an unwanted consequence (such as being found out that one has cheated). It produces unpleasant tension and an impulse to escape. Small amounts of fear make us alert, and are harmless when eventually dissipated. But when fear is chronic, it produces mental, emotional and physical problems.

III. How to Handle Fear

1. Do deep breathing to help handle yourself. The body can paralyze itself or run away as a spontaneous reaction to the fearful situation. Breathing can stabilize and help us gain self-control so we can more effectively handle the situation.

Example: You are asked to speak in front of people, breathe deeply to calm your nervousness.

2. Adopt a strategy to gradually diminish all forms of fear. Almost all forms of fear are acquired, therefore we can unlearn them. Do it step by step, using your rational mind.

-Exposure approach or desensitization: Deliberately expose yourself to what you fear when it is safe.

Examples: Fear of mice - Except for diseases that they carry, mice do not harm people. Start by observing white mice in animal stores. If you wish, try to touch them. They are cute and clean. Houshold mice are just darker cousins of these.

Fear of public speaking - Start with small trials: talking in front of a committee, to a family gathering, or joining a toastmaster's club.

-Rational approach: by understanding the fear better.

Fear of death - Understand the reasons for the fear: whether fear of loss, or dependency, or fear of unknown. If fear of the unknown, then learn more about the facts of the afterlife based on scientific studies.

Fear of failure - Understand that there is really no such things a permanent failure, only temporary defeat. So long as you have done your best, you should be able to accept the consequences.

-Preparation approach: Some fears are due to our inability to cope with possible situations, like death of a loved one.

Example: If fear of death of a loved one is due to dependency, then undertake a plan to be more independent and self-reliant, such as preparing your financial affairs such that if anything happens to either of you, the one who is let behind will not feel helpless.

3. Be in touch with your fear. Awareness of your fear reaction can gradually diminish your automatic response to what you are afraid of.

Example: When you are afraid of the dark, be in touch with your physical reactions and emotional state. Just be aware without trying to fight it. You will notice that in time it will gradually diminish on its own without you doing anything about it.

IV. Preventing Fear in Children

1. Avoid threats to children about ghosts, or similar things. Making children do things by making them afraid is very harmful and can diminish future capabilities of the children.

Example: Scaring children with ghosts in order to persuade to eat will not only make them become afraid of the dark but associate eating with something unpleasant. Hence the approach creates two problems.

Constantly threatening a child with violence (such as physical punishment) will create either inhibition in the child or create aggression, both of which are unwholesome.

2. Be conscious of your own fears. You tend to transmit your fears to your children. It can be fear of what the neighbors will say, or fear of lizards, etc. The fears of yayas or nurses are also transmitted to the children.

Example: a mother who has a phobia of lightning hides under the bed whenever there is a thunderstorm. Her three year child similarly developed this response of hiding under the bed whenever it begins to thunder.

3. Discuss with children their fears and work out a program where they can consciously remove them.

Example: If a child is afraid of spiders, tell them about the difference between harmless spiders and poisonous ones. For tiny, household spiders no bigger than your smallest fingernail, you may wish to demonstrate to your child that the spider can crawl on your arm harmlessly.

If the child is afraid of the dark, play a game in a dark room that you know he will enjoy. Do not force the situation. Do it gradually and without the child noticing that he is already getting accustomed to the dark.

Source: Theosophical Society of the Philippines Self Transformation Article

Peace Center
Theosophical Society in the Philippines, 1 Iba St., Quezon City, Philippines
E-mail: tspeace@info.com.ph

[kajrot1]

do you know Helena Blavatsky?
Ts ask lng ko ha dili ni occultism ?
hehe wala lang naka basa lng ko.
pero anyways nice ni kay yoga..

[iTheo1875]

do you know Helena Blavatsky?
Ts ask lng ko ha dili ni occultism ?
hehe wala lang naka basa lng ko.
pero anyways nice ni kay yoga..

Yes I know Madame Blavatsky. We teach Theosophy sir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy

[marine77]

yup, nindot ni sya kung maayo lang ug tumong pero mas maayo sad kung masabton nato unsay mga origins sa ani nga mga teachings.

this link will help us know briefly about theosophy---

Aquarius - The Age of Evil (Full) - YouTube

[iTheo1875]

yup, nindot ni sya kung maayo lang ug tumong pero mas maayo sad kung masabton nato unsay mga origins sa ani nga mga teachings.

this link will help us know briefly about theosophy---

Aquarius - The Age of Evil (Full) - YouTube

we fear what we don't understand.

You can make another thread for this kind of stuff just pls spare this one from religious bigotry. Thank you!

[kajrot1]

free rani siya Ts?

[iTheo1875]

free rani siya Ts?

for the buffet you have to pay 150Php. the rest is free. thank you for asking.

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Theosophical Tidbits:

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. -Annie Beasant


...by the way there will be books for sale during the opening and we will discuss the benefits of Yoga and Vegetarian Diet. Cheers to a healthy you this 2012.



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there will be a lecture about yoga during the opening, its for free.