Dharmaraj presents ways to create harmony at work, shares a technique to recharge yourself, and answers emailed questions from viewers.
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Harmony at Work Interview - Video
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Harmony at Work Interview on Bloomberg-UTV
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
On Thursday, 3 December, Dharmaraj appeared on Rashmi Bansal’s TV programme “Stay Hungry: Cracking Careers with Rashmi”. The show airs on business channel Bloomberg UTV.
Here is the video. The following is transcript of the unabridged interview. It has been edited slightly for clarity.
Hi Dharmaraj. First of all, what is ‘Harmony at Work’? What is this program all about?
Hi Rashmi. Thank you for having me here with you. Harmony at Work offers stress management, personal productivity, and leadership training for corporates. We take our hats off to all you corporates because the pace is grueling and we’re running at top speed just trying to keep up with you.
We base our offerings on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. His teachings have been applied to daily life by his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda. One course that Kriyananda wrote is called Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles—that’s our training manual.
Success, happiness, and harmony are things that everybody wants. There are so many powerful techniques that we can practice to achieve these. (more…)
Knowledge, Inspiration, and Energy (Part 1)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Listen: Download Audio MP3 (5 MB).
(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s Knowledge, Inspiration, and Energy, Lesson 3 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)
For those who want to follow well-worn paths, familiarity with what has been done before is important. This is the path of tradition, which to a great extent means a path of imitation. To follow this path, one needs knowledge, but doesn’t particularly need inspiration or energy. For success in any tradition, one needs the necessary education taught by people competent to instruct others in the basic “rules of the game.”
I remember the organist at the church where my mother’s funeral was held. The purpose of the ceremony was to comfort the bereaved and to send blessings to the departed. The organist’s job was simply to play a piece of music for the event. What I asked her to play was a composition of my own. She was graceless enough to tell me that she wouldn’t play it because, as she pointed out firmly, “This melody doesn’t end on the tonic note.” In fact she was right according to the “rules of the game.” Had she played the piece first, however, and listened with her heart, she would have seen that, in this case, she was wrong. (more…)
The Brain—Engineered for Higher Awareness
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Dr. van Houten
by Peter van Houten, M.D.
Dr. van Houten serves as Medical Director of the Sierra Family Medical Clinic and is a longtime resident of Ananda Village. This article was originally published in Ananda’s Clarity Online Magazine.
In the early 1980’s, I attended a revolutionary conference for scientists who specialize in the brain and nervous system called, “The Ever-changing Brain.” New information was being discovered about the nature of our brain and central nervous system that corroborated strongly with what the ancient spiritual traditions of yoga said about the brain’s ability to change. According to the old scientific model in the West the brain didn’t change much during a person’s lifetime. The brain developed through childhood and adolescence and somewhere around age twenty, it was thought, our brain cells began to die off without being replaced. After that, it was a race to see how many brain cells you would lose before you died! It was pretty grim. (more…)
Creating Opportunities with Your Voice
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Listen: Download Audio MP3 (3 MB)
We’ve all heard the phrase, “You don’t get a second chance to make first impression.” We know that, to make a good impression, one should dress in nice clothes, look the other person in the eye, and give a firm handshake. But one of your most important assets may be neglected: the sound and quality of your voice. (This is of course crucial if your first impression is made over the phone.)
Here is an example. Haridas and I once got into a cab in Calcutta. The driver gave us the silent nod, thereby asking us where we wanted to go. We weren’t sure of the exact location or the directions, so we called a friend and handed the phone to the cab driver. He proceeded to shout into the phone with a voice so harsh that it was almost frightening. We were so put off by his tone of voice that we jumped out of the cab, and he lost our business.
Swami Kriyananda explains how to improve the quality of your voice in Creating Opportunities (Lesson 25 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles). (more…)
When to Breathe
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009As a follow up to the previous post on diaphragmatic breathing, you may find it helpful to keep “breathe” reminder at your desk, or on your computer screen, such as:
If you’d like a printable version, you can download it here.
You might experiment with this technique of taking a few deep breaths to boost your energy in the following situations: (more…)
1-Minute Recharge: Breathe
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009As part of our corporate training programs, we often teach the “10-Minute Recharge”. This routine consists of energization exercises developed by Yogananda, and a meditation technique that he recommended.
But sometimes, in the heat of the moment, one doesn’t have even 10 minutes. So what about a 1-Minute Routine? We offer that, too. It is just this: BREATHE.
You may be thinking, “yes, I know how to breathe already.” But the truth is that most of us don’t breathe properly throughout the day.
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