Appreciating the Sun
This is a short and beautiful video by Joe Noonan of A Joyful Nature sharing appreciation for the Sun. Often in our busy lives we forget how important the Sun is. This video helps us to remember.
This is a short and beautiful video by Joe Noonan of A Joyful Nature sharing appreciation for the Sun. Often in our busy lives we forget how important the Sun is. This video helps us to remember.
In 2009, the Journal Clinical Endocrinology studied the effects that sunlight has on testosterone, the main male sex hormone responsible for libido (and sperm production). Research results show that increased exposure to sunlight and higher amounts of vitamin D increase the production of testosterone in men’s body. This is great news for couples trying to conceive a child and for men who wish to have more physical energy and look younger.
In the 2nd part of this article, you will learn how to properly sunbathe to improve your overall health and immunity. Sunbathing has been an important healthcare practice for thousands of years. By practicing sunbathing correctly, you can minimize risk or damage and get the most benefits from your time in the sun.
Today, NASA Space.com scientists announced the formation of a new giant sunspot on the Sun’s surface. This sunspot will be large enough for amateur telescopes to see. Scientists expect a new series of solar flares to emerge soon.
On her 2004 music album Grace, Snatam Kaur, an American-born Sikh, sings this beautiful mantra to the sacred Sun. ‘May The Long Time Sun’ is a traditional Scottish song that has become a mantra used at Kundalini Yoga classes around the world.
This September 2011, world famous Sunyogi Umasankar will be presenting his first ever workshop in Germany. Learn the ancient 13 step Sun Yoga process as taught by Sunyogi Umashankar. Learn how you can gather more sun energy into your body better health, spiritual purification, and immortality.
The book Om Yoga – Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri contains a section called “The Solar Path of Liberation”. This section shares knowledge from the inner yoga teachings and Upanishads about the significance of the Sun. “As the germinating seed struggles upward toward the sun and out into its life-giving rays, so all higher forms of life reach out for the sun, which acts as a metaphysical magnet, drawing them upward and outward toward ever-expanding consciousness. Sunlight is the radiant form of Om, so the sun initiates the entire solar system into Om.”
For 2010, Sunlight Saunas – creators of the Solo Carbon Far Infrared Sauana – changed their business name to Sunlighten. The Sun Yogi, creator of Sunlightenment.com, has been a very happy user of Sunlight Saunas for over 5 years and continues to use his Sunlight Sauna Solo Carbon Far Infrared Sauna daily for maximum cellular detoxification and optimal health.
This new name change is synchronisitc and very auspicious. Sunlighten – Sunlightenment
Be sure to read this article to learn more about Sunlight Saunas / Sunlighten. These Solo Carbon Far Infrared Saunas are simply amazing. I highly recommend one. Sunlighten Sauna has offices around the world and ships to nearly every country.
The healing science of the Sun is one of the oldest sciences and medicines on this planet. This article teaches Surya Ayurveda – the healing science of the Sun. Read quotes from India’s oldest spiritual, health, medicine and religious books: the Vedas and learn how you can use the Sun (Surya) for your healing.
Swami Nirmalananda Giri authored a comprehensive book on the spiritual significance of the sacred sound OM. In the chapeter The Glories and Powers of Om, Swami Nirmalananda Giri cites many authoritative yoga texts and their teachings about the Om sound and the Sun. In this article we have included some excerpts from Swami Nirmalananda Giri’s book and links to read the complete text.
Top scientists are predicting that the sun is entering another cycle of intense solar activity. More solar storms and sunspots are predicted. The sun is entering an active period that may damage Earth’s satellites and threaten communication on Earth.
The sun improves the eyes and pupils in many wonderful ways. For instance, it loosens tight muscles. The nerves and muscles just naturally let go of stress and tension, a leading cause of poor eyesight. The eyes thrive on the sun’s energy
In 2005, BBC released a documentary video on a scientific phenomenon called “Global Dimming”. Scientists hypothesize that increased pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere can be reducing the amount of sunlight coming into our planet and our bodies. The result is increased environmental and health problems.
Every year around June 20-22, we celebrate the Summer Solstice – the day with the most hours of sunlight. On the Summer Solstice, the sun appears to stand still in the sky. More scientifically, the noontime elevation does not change. Learn more about this unique day in which cultures around the world celebrate the Sun and the beginning of the Summer season.
The great saint Kabir said ““The sun is the most immediate physical form of AUM we can experience, for it is really solidified, materialized AUM.” In this article by the Ananda Church of Self Realization, we learn about the relationship between the Sun and the spiritual sound AUM (OM). With quotes from Kabir, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Swami Kriyananda, we learn that the Sun is the form of Aum. By meditating on the AUM sound we connect with our Higher Guidance.
The Chandogya Upanishad is one of the “primary” (mukhya) Upanishads. It ranks among the oldest Upanishads, dating to the Vedic Brahmana period, before first millennium BCE. In this commentary on the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us about the connection between the sacred sound (mantra) OM and the Sun. “One should meditate on the sun as Om…. the energy of the sun is a manifestation of Om.”
Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us that the energy of the Sun is the subtle energy that enters and fills our subtle energy channels (nadis), bringing life to our physical body. Speaking of death, Swami Nirmalananda Giri states, “When he thus departs from this body, then he proceeds upwards through those very rays. He surely goes up meditating on Om. As long as it takes for the mind to travel, in that time he goes to the sun. That indeed is the door to the world of Brahman (Supreme God), an entrance for the knowers and a shutting out for the ignorant.” (Chandogya Upanishad 8.6.5) Those who pass through the sun are free from the compulsion to rebirth on the earth. Om!”
India’s most sacred text The Bhagavad Gita teaches us “Having confined the mind in the heart and…engaged in the practice of concentration, uttering the one-syllabled Om–the Brahman–and remembering Me, he who departs, leaving the body, attains to the Supreme Goal.” “If he meditates on the Supreme Being with the Syllable Om, he becomes one with the Light, the Sun. He is led to the world of Brahman.” (Prashna Upanishad)
One of the most well-known Catholic Christian saints is St. Francis of Assisi. Few people realize that St. Francis of Assisi was a devote of the Sun, Earth and Nature. St. Francis of Assisi say God in all life and honored the Sun for it’s life giving properties. This article shows the similarities between St. Francis of Assisi’s teachings and the Yoga and Vedas of India.
In his Coast to Coast AM radio interview, psychologist Christopher Holmes discusses his “most mind-boggling” subject – that humans beings are spiritual beings that come from the sun and return to the sun at death.
In this 1 hour audio interview with author Maurice Cotterell, learn how the study of the sun offers a new science about human history, fertility regulation, personal formation, mental health and mental illness, and earth changes. Uncover the deeper significance of sun worship and the ancient Mayan, Egyptian, Chinese and Celtic solar civilizations.
Could violent solar activity, predicted by some for the year 2012, end life on Earth? 2012 is a predicted time of great change upon this Earth. Learn more about the Earth-Sun connection in this History Channel video clip.
This website is dedicated to the free discemination of information on the healing powers of the Sun and the spiritual practices of Sun Gazing and Surya (Sun) Yoga. All information is given in the spirit of the Sun, whom shares its Light and Love without restriction. May all of humanity benefit from the enlightening energy of the Sun and the wisdom of all beings who share in this service of Sun Yoga.