Category: योग-साधना/Yoga

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

Talk on Happiness: VIDEO #3

THIS EXERCISE WILL HELP YOU INCREASE JOY, HAPPINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION

What determines happiness?

50% of our happiness is determined by genetically determined set point. 10% depends on our life circumstances. The remaining 40% is under our voluntary control – how we think and what we do.

The real keys to happiness:

Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment.

Positive emotion:

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually – but much too narrowly – talk about “happiness”. The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfilment, pride, and serenity.

These three senses of emotion are different and are not tightly linked. It is possible to be proud and satisfied about the past, but to be sour in the present and pessimistic about the future. It is desirable to be happy in all the three senses – satisfaction about the past, optimism about the future and happiness in the future. You can move your emotions in a positive direction by learning about the three kinds of happiness (past, present, future).

CREATING YOUR HAPPINESS

HAPPINESS ACTIVITY: THE GRATITUDE VISIT

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXERCISES THAT WORK

The Gratitude Visit exercise:

Close your eyes. Call up the face of one important person from your past who has made a major positive difference in your life and to whom you have never fully expressed your thanks. Got a face?

Write a testimonial just long enough to cover one laminated page. Take your time composing this.

Invite that person to your home, or travel to that person’s home. It is important that you do this face to face, not just in writing or on the phone. Do not tell the person the purpose of the visit in advance; a simple “I just want to see you” will suffice.

When all settles down, read your testimonial slowly, with expression, and with eye contact. Then let the other person react unhurriedly. Reminisce together about the concrete events that make this person so important to you.

Dr Martin Seligman/ AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS

CULTIVATE AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE TO BE HAPPIER IN LIFE

Gratitude can make your life happier and more satisfying. This exercise helps you increase joy, happiness and life satisfaction.

Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, says that the expression of gratitude is a kind of meta strategy for achieving happiness. Grateful thinking promotes the savouring of positive life experiences. Gratitude can help people cope with stress and trauma. It helps build social bonds. The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness and greed.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude to be happier in life!

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

Talk on Happiness: VIDEO #3

आनंद के आधुनिक विज्ञान के अनुसार, हमारे जीवन में आनंद तीन बातों पर निर्भर करता है :

• सेट पॉइंट या निर्दिष्ट बिंदु
• जीवन की परिस्थितियां
• हमारी ऐच्छिक गतिविधियां

इस वीडियो में इन तीनों कारकों की व्याख्या की गयी है जिसके बाद जीवन में स्थायी रूप से आनंदित रहने का उपाय आप जान जायेंगे।

जीवन में स्थायी रूप से आनंदित कैसे रहें ?

– जगत सिंह बिष्ट

What determines HAPPINESS?

CAN YOU MAKE YOURSELF LASTINGLY HAPPIER?

This video provides you answers to these questions based on POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY – the modern Science of Happiness.

According to Positive Psychologists, the enduring level of happiness that you experience is determined by three factors: your biological set point, the conditions of your life, and the voluntary activities you do.

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

Talk on Happiness: VIDEO #3

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Positive Psychologists have chosen only evidence-based happiness-increasing strategies whose practice is supported by scientific research.

HAPPINESS ACTIVITY: WHAT WENT WELL
“Every night, for the next week, set aside 10 minutes before you go to sleep.

WRITE DOWN 3 THINGS THAT WENT WELL AND WHY THEY WENT WELL.
You may use a journal or your computer to write about the events, but it is important that you have a physical record of what you wrote.”
Martin Seligman/ FLOURISH

LifeSkills

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

Talk on Happiness: VIDEO #1

When asked for his recipe for happiness, Sigmund Freud gave a very short and sensible answer: “Work and love.”

Studies on flow have demonstrated repeatedly that more than anything else, the quality of life depends on two factors: how we experience work, and our relations with other people.

Engagement, or flow, is one of the strongest pillars around which Positive Psychology is built. Here, one is fully in the present, immersed in something worthwhile.

Flow is a state of joy, creativity and total involvement, in which problems seem to disappear and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence.

According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is what we feel when we are fully alive, involved with what we do, and in harmony with the environment around us.

It is something that happens most easily when we sing, dance, do sports – but it can happen when we work, read a good book, or have a good conversation.

When asked for his recipe for happiness, Sigmund Freud gave a very short and sensible answer: “Work and love.”

Most people spend the largest part of their lives working and interacting with others, especially with members of their families. Therefore, it is crucial that one can learn to transform job into flow-producing activities, and to think of making relations with parents, spouses, children, and friends more enjoyable.

Studies on flow have demonstrated repeatedly that more than anything else, the quality of life depends on two factors: how we experience work, and our relations with other people.

It is true that if one finds flow in work, and in relations with other people, one is well on the way toward improving the quality of life as a whole.

We each have the potential to experience flow, whether at work, at play or in our relationships.

One thing I can say for sure – flow brings true happiness! The experience becomes its own reward.

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Flow

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

YOGA: VIDEO #7 

Surya namaskara is a well-known and vital technique within the yogic repertoire. It is a practice which has been handed down from the sages of vedic times. Surya means ‘sun’ and namaskara means ‘salutation’.

It is a technique of solar vitalization, a series of exercises which recharge us like a battery, enabling us to live more fully and joyfully with dynamism and skill in action.

Surya namaskara is a series of twelve physical postures. These alternate backward and forward bending asanas flex and stretch the spinal column and limbs through their maximum range. The series gives such a profound stretch to the whole body that few other forms of exercise can be compared with it.

It is almost a complete sadhana in itself, containing asana, pranayama and meditational techniques within the main structure of the pracntice. It also has the depth and completeness of a spiritual practice.

Surya namaskara can be easily integrated into our daily lives as it requires only five to fifteen minutes’ practice daily to obtain beneficial results remarkably quickly.

Reference-  SURYA NAMASKARA – A TECHNIQUE OF SOLAR VITALIZATION BY SWAMI SATYANANDA SARASWATI

Caution:   This is only a demonstration to facilitate practice of the asanas. It must be supplemented by a thorough study of each of the asanas. Careful attention must be paid to the contra indications in respect of each one of the asanas. It is advisable to practice under the guidance of a yoga teacher.

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Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

YOGA: VIDEO #6 

SUPTA BADDHAKONASANA (reclining fixed angle pose)

SHASHANKASANA (pose of the moon or hare pose)

BALASANA (child’s pose)

Reference books:

• ASANA PRANAYAMA MUDRA BANDHA by Swami Satyanada Saraswati
• YOGA: THE PATH TO HOLISTIC HEALTH by B.K.S Iyengar

Caution:  This is only a demonstration to facilitate practice of the asanas. It must be supplemented by a thorough study of each of the asanas. Careful attention must be paid to the contra indications in respect of each one of the asanas. It is advisable to practice under the guidance of a yoga teacher.)

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Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

YOGA: VIDEO # 3

SUKHASANA, ARDHA PADMASANA, PADMASANA, SIDDHASANA, SIDDHA YONI ASANA, SWASTIKASANA, DHYANA VEERASANA, SIMHASANA, VAJRASANA, ANANDA MADIRASANA, PADADHIRASANA, BHADRASANA

The main purpose of the meditation asanas is to allow the practitioner to sit for extended periods of time without moving and without discomfort. Only when the body has been steady and still for some time will meditation be experienced.
Deep meditation requires the spinal column to be straight and very few asanas can satisfy this condition. Furthermore, in high stages of meditation the practitioner loses control over the muscle of the body. The meditation asana, therefore, needs to hold the body in steady position without conscious effort.

In this video, we have demonstrated how to get into the following meditation asanas:

SUKHASANA (easy pose)
ARDHA PADMASANA (half lotus pose)
PADMASANA (lotus pose)
SIDDHASANA (accomplished pose for men)
SIDDHA YONI ASANA (accomplished pose for women)
SWASTIKASANA (auspicious pose)
DHYANA VEERASANA (hero’s meditation pose)
SIMHASANA (lion pose)
VAJRASANA (thunderbolt pose)
ANANDA MADIRASANA (intoxicating bliss pose)
PADADHIRASANA (breath balancing pose)
BHADRASANA (gracious pose)

Practice note: A useful suggestion to make the above poses comfortable is to be place a small cushion under the buttocks.

Caution – This is only a demonstration to facilitate practice of the asanas. It must be supplemented by a thorough study of each of the asanas. Careful attention must be paid to the contra indications in respect of each one of the asanas. It is advisable to practice under the guidance of a yoga teacher.

 Reference book:
ASANA PRANAYAMA MUDRA BANDHA  by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Music:

I Don’t See the Branches, I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…)

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