Comments on: Understanding Consciousness http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/understanding-consciousness/ Personal Development for Smart People Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:35:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: cloudshadows.net » Blog Archive » Yoga Controls The Operation of Your Consciousness http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/understanding-consciousness/#comment-15316 cloudshadows.net » Blog Archive » Yoga Controls The Operation of Your Consciousness Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:22:12 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/understanding-consciousness/#comment-15316 [...] Just as consciousness is difficult to control, so it is difficult to define. In Yoga, citta refers to the individual consciousness, which is composed of manas, buddhi, and ahaṁkāra. Manas is the mind, or the part of you that observes and perceives. Buddhi is intelligence, or the part of you that learns and knows. Ahaṁkāra is your ego, or your sense of self. So Yoga is joining the observer with the knower with the sense of self, or your mind with your intelligence with your ego. [...] [...] Just as consciousness is difficult to control, so it is difficult to define. In Yoga, citta refers to the individual consciousness, which is composed of manas, buddhi, and ahaṁkāra. Manas is the mind, or the part of you that observes and perceives. Buddhi is intelligence, or the part of you that learns and knows. Ahaṁkāra is your ego, or your sense of self. So Yoga is joining the observer with the knower with the sense of self, or your mind with your intelligence with your ego. [...]

]]> By: Crossroads Dispatches http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/understanding-consciousness/#comment-9827 Crossroads Dispatches Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:34:06 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/understanding-consciousness/#comment-9827 <strong>On the Same Conscious Wavelength</strong> It is like being the sky instead of a cloud, being the ocean instead of a wave. - Arjuna ArdaghI met Daniel Goleman of Emotional Intelligence fame last Friday. He's helping to promote the book Blazing Splendor on his On the Same Conscious Wavelength

It is like being the sky instead of a cloud, being the ocean instead of a wave. - Arjuna ArdaghI met Daniel Goleman of Emotional Intelligence fame last Friday. He’s helping to promote the book Blazing Splendor on his

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