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Book of Changes
The topic is the I Ching also known as the Book of Changes. The I Ching is the world’s oldest divinatory text, if not the oldest divinatory practice. It’s speculated it may have been around for more than three millennia before the birth of Christ, and it’s confirmed at the two millennia mark. It has…
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Interplay of Changes
Though there are 64 hexagrams in the I Ching, there are only 8 trigrams, and understanding the trigrams makes reading the hexagrams potentially rather easy. But first let’s explore a simple element of the symbolism. How would you explain warmth in the yin/yang symbolism? Yang is hot, yin is cold. Remember the hexagrams and even…
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Study Shows Meditation Changes Brain after 8 Weeks by Sarah Clare
Many of us have felt the peace of meditation after just a few minutes of meaningful silence. There are long-term and far-reaching benefits to meditation that we may not realize, too. A new study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience shows that just 8 weeks of dedicated meditation training changes the brain—even outside of the…