THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT JOURNAL
NAMAH is a pioneer, peer-reviewed, internationally indexed body, mind and spirit journal with an integral vision looking at the influence of the spirit or soul in psychology and health.Consciousness and health
The Role of Will in Sadhana
True Will is free from all mental or vital interference. As long as they are involved, there has to be effort. Effort is necessary in opening to the psychic influence and, as that gradually happens, effort is replaced by surrender and the true Will emerges in our sādhanā. Read more...
Think it Over
Inhabit, Light
The Word, ‘inhabit’, opens at a Given Moment, on a Chosen Day, and triggers this: a Prayer. We are creatures of habits, till we no longer are: when we realise and refuse to be that anymore, when we realise that these habits, formed through unknown lives in unknown forms, are inhibiting inhabitants of the Temple within. We want to consecrate the Temple to the Deity within, to the Divine Mother. But these in habit, that inhabit, these are very, and naturally, sticky inhabitants marring and clouding even our speech too, along with each movement of our being. And so, to Her we offer our difficulty, and Her invoke, assured by Her Affirmations and showers of Her Grace…. Read more...
Inner approach to health
The Power of Japa and Affirmations
Some of us doubt the power of a Japa or affirmation, or repetition of any name or phrase or mantra or sentence. But then we can question ourselves, ‘Am I not doing a Japa all the time?’ I am repeating my storylines in my mind, judgements and opinions about people and myself, my narratives of what happened in the past or present. Read more...
The Body
The Central Will of the Physical Being and the Cells
“Where does the physical being’s disgust at carrying on the effort of coordination and harmonization come from?”
That disgust generally occurs when there is in some part of the being — an important part, either vital or mental — an absolute refusal to progress, and so, physically, that expresses itself as a refusal to exert oneself against the deterioration that stems from time. Read more...
Consciousness and Health
Linking the Outer Being and the Inner Being
The pursuit of personal growth requires a thorough understanding of the planes and parts of the consciousness. Ordinarily, the term, ’personality’ as used in contemporary Western psychology, corresponds to what is known as the outer being in yoga psychology. Sri Aurobindo describes a vaster inner being or subliminal personality behind the outer being, which is in continuum with the universal consciousness. It is not the soul but intermediary between the soul-principle (also known as the inmost being and a projection of the central being poised beyond and above the manifestation). Read more...
