Becky Blab

My journey to/through Isha Yoga

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“If you want your wife to stop arguing with you…”

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

“…send her to Inner Engineering!”–random comment to me when I said I was much less confrontational after attending the program.
Please take a few minutes to view this video on “Conquering Negative Emotions and Anger”

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Tags: empowerment · health & well-being · human development · me · spirituality

Celebrating Women’s Day by bringing back the Sacred Feminine

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

This blog used to be saturated with Feminism, women’s issues, gender theories. In honor of Women’s Day, I’m revisiting it in a new light.
The day’s articles mostly look at women’s status and what can be done to improve it; in India, the big issue is the Women’s Reservation Bill. Though many (including me) decry the [...]

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Tags: empowerment · feminism · spirituality

Leaders should meditate!

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

From an article called “How meditation can improve leaders’ performance”
The role of a leader in organizations is one of constant pressure to perform and stress to solve problems. Leaders need to be at the top of their game to be alert and productive at all times. Unfortunately, far too many leaders use adrenalin-type of strategies [...]

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Tags: Isha US · economic development · empowerment · environment · health & well-being · human development · leadership

Having thoughts about death: two bus rides I can’t forget

March 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Outbound journey:
Yesterday, I rushed to catch the 11 am bus to Delhi to attend the Sathsang with Sadhguru. As I settle into my seat, I get a call that it might be called off because of a recent death from a car accident. It momentarily snaps me out of my i’m-in-a-hurry-can’t-think mode, and I get [...]

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Tags: religion · rural india · spirituality

Enlightenment in the Bible; or, What is Grace?

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” (Matthew 6:22)

Sadhguru says…
“These two eyes are discriminatory (pointing to his eyes). They tell you what is high, what is low, what is man, what is woman, what is this, what is that. These [...]

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Tags: Enlightenment · Isha US · spirituality