# A quick post before bed
“the essence of the yogic practice of seeing the Divine within all of creation…Anjali mudra is used as a posture of composure, of returning to one’s heart, whether you are greeting someone or saying goodbye, initiating or completing an action. As you bring your hands together at your center, you are literally connecting the right and left hemispheres of your brain. This is the yogic process of unification, the yoking of our active and receptive natures. In the yogic view of the body, the energetic or spiritual heart is visualized as a lotus at the center of the chest. Anjali mudra nourishes this lotus heart with awareness, gently encouraging it to open as water and light do a flower.” - YogaJournal.com
I have been reading my Meditation book and watching the DVD that came with it, tis a very good book that focuses on Meditation with Buddhist Principles (It is a Hinkler Book Gift Box). The DVD is presented by a nice Australian man (but not too Australian sounding). You can sense his calm and contentedness just through his voice and posture - something definately good when learning Buddhist principles (and meditation). I would really recommend meditation, especially with Buddhist concepts, it is all very interesting - and you don’t have to convert to Buddhism to be able to understand it, in fact Buddhism was not created to be a religion, it was supposed to be a philosophy and has been laid over many other faiths since its creation.
In other news:
* I am going to Bekis tomorrow (ooh, which is actually today) - seeing Beki again 
Makes me happy :)Â - Got to give her Christmas andd Birthday presents, she is going to like ‘em
* Christmas has been pretty good, was good to spend it with the family again. Also have seen my cousins and aunties/uncles and grandparents too. Twas all good
* You’ll be noticing that my posts have been infested with Buddhist, Christian and Pagan things… I did promise a while ago to go deeper into them didn’t I!
Right, I need to be up at 7am tomorrow… so I am off to bed. (feel free to comment - except you spammers!)
Daniel
