Part 3 After concluding the laboratory work on Sunday, Alyce and I invited Dr. Ferguson and the Swami to dinner with us at a local smorgasbord place. While chatting about yogic methods for self-regulation, the Swami surprised us by saying, “I am sorry I didn’t stop my...
Part 2 We continued talking for a few minutes. Suddenly the Swami said, “Be attentive, I will do something.” Caught by surprise, I said over the intercom, “Be attentive.” I could not think of anything else to say and did not know what he was going to do. The record...
Part 1 As already noted, Alyce and Dale Walters and I began research in self-regulation of autonomic processes in the mid-1960s. Through a publication of the Menninger Foundation, which is sent to psychiatric alumni, our voluntary controls program came to the...
Part 2 The body and, hence, the mind are continually undergoing changes of state due to various factors such as climate, environment, and habits, and those influences are beyond the realm of man’s control. The consequence of this continual and varied state of affairs...
The meaning of the word pranayama may be explained in two ways: prana is energy, or the life force, and yama means the control of that energy. Or the word pranayama may be split into prana and ayama: prana means “first unit of energy,” and ayama means expansion, or...
Love means to adjust and to understand. The Odd Couple One day a sage came to visit a couple. He sang a song for them that explained the meaning of life and the true goal of life. His song expressed that love was the most ancient traveler in the world. From eternity...
