by Mukund Acharya | May 14, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Health & Wellness, Healthy Life
Scholars of Sanskrit give us various meanings for the word Prana including breath (or life-force), energy, spirit and soul. A simple meaning of Pranayama is breath control. An important text in Hindu tradition compiled prior to 400 CE, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,...
by Mukund Acharya | Apr 30, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Views
As a professor of Aerospace Engineering at a Midwestern university in the ‘90s, I taught a course titled “Introduction to Engineering,” designed to give incoming freshmen an appreciation for what engineering was all about. Every month, we invited a leading engineer...
by Mukund Acharya | Apr 22, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Health & Wellness, Healthy Life
Aging is not an event – it’s a continuous process. It can creep up on you, sometimes in a disruptive fashion. However, it is an inexorable process. Have you noticed, however that although we’re all aging, some people feel older or younger than they are? How old do you...
by Mukund Acharya | Apr 9, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Healthy Life
“Where’s my phone?” “I’m positive my keys were right here!” “What’s that password?” We’ve all experienced such “senior moments” or watched another’s frustration as he or she draws a complete blank about something. We usually recover, brush it off as a minor irritant,...
by Mukund Acharya | Feb 5, 2019 | Healthy Life
Julie Beck tells us that throughout much of history the heart was the essence of what made humans human. We use heart metaphors very often: “he has a heart of stone,” or a “heart of a lion,” or a “heart of gold.”’ She “poured her heart out.”‘“He broke my heart.” We...
