If you're not familiar with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he's best known as the Beatles' spiritual guide when they visited India in the 1960s.

What's even cooler? David Lynch is gonna make a movie about him.  According to Lynch though, it's not going to be a traditional documentary or a typical narrative. And it definitely isn't going to be a typical David Lynch movie. This looks like it's gonna be an awesome film.

In fact, David Lynch has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique twice a day, for 20 minutes each time, for 32 years.

Check out the article below to find out more about this movie. Can't wait till it comes out!

David Lynch to make documentary on meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

From GordonAndTheWhale.com

David Lynch is making a movie about meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is best known as the Beatles’ spiritual guide during their visit to India in the late 1960s. The filmmaker known for films such as ERASERHEAD, LOST HIGHWAY, BLUE VELVET, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE will be traveling to India this December to start filming. Read More…

Here's something that's super cool. A nine-year study was conducted and the results are pretty astonishing. We all know that meditation can help reduce stress, but who knew it would reduce heart disease by a whopping 47%.

What's even cooler is that during this study, there were 2 groups. One group was instructed to meditate twice a day for 20 minutes only and the other group went through health and life style education. And at the end of 9 years, the meditation group had a profound reduction in heart disease, far higher than the other group that only went through health/life style education.

These kind of studies are BIG. Instead of reaching for a bottle of pills, doctors might now recommend meditation as a preventative means for high risk patients. Read More…

Alright, are you ready? Put on your thinking caps and let's get started with the greatest haiku challenge ever!

A story about transformation, personal growth, and spirituality can be hard to write. But what's even harder? Compressing that entire story into a 3-line, 17 syllable (well, 17 moras if you wanna get technical) haiku.

If you forgot what a haiku is, it's a 3 line poem. The first and last line contain 5 syllables, while the middle line contains 7. So 5-7-5.

So drop a comment with your own haiku about personal growth, transformation, spirituality, or life!

Here's one to get you going. If Dylan Thomas had written zombie haikus, this would probably be it:

Zombie Haiku by Dylan Thomas (from Zombiehaiku.com)
Do not go gentle
into that zombie plagued night.
And take the shotgun.

Can't wait to hear your haikus! And no, they don't have to be zombie related

Found this really cool article from the Huffington Post and thought I might share it with you guys. Now the idea of positive thinking isn't new to anyone, but what's the deal with this sudden backlash against it?

Check out this article below as the author deals with this new wave of anti-positivity.

In my opinion, I think there's a huge difference between wishful thinking and positive thinking and people sometimes mix up the two.

But what're your opinions? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the whole concept of positive thinking and it's impact on humanity as a whole. Drop a comment and pitch in your 2 cents.

Could You Just Get Over Your Negativity About Positive Focus?

By Russell Bishop from the Huffington Post

What is it about those Huff Post readers who seem to get all negative about the suggestion that having a positive focus just might help? I mean, really.

The demographics tell us that our readers are highly educated, and presumably intelligent, and yet I keep getting the most cynical replies from people who seem to keep missing the point. Read More…

Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks

It’s the lesson most of us struggle to learn throughout our own lives.

Maybe it’s the lesson of life and love. It’s certainly been the major issue people have talked to us about in our thirty years as therapists and relationship coaches. Even if the person brought in a problem of depression or marital misery, this issue was hovering in the background. The depression never lifted and the marriage never harmonized until the person learned this mega-lesson. It’s is if a secret—perhaps the deepest secret—is withheld from us until we can open our hearts for the few seconds or minutes it takes to reveal the secret to ourselves.

Here is the deepest secret:

The major barrier to a loving relationship is an unloved part of you.
That’s right: An aspect of ourselves that we have never loved and accepted keeps us from forming and keeping genuine love with others.

Here’s why:

If you don’t love yourself, you’ll always be looking for someone else to do it for you. It never works, because people who don’t love themselves attract people who don’t love themselves. Then they try to get the other person to love them unconditionally when they’re not even doing it for themselves. Read More…

I'm sure this happens to everyone at some time. You wake up in the morning and you just don't feel like doing anything. Or worse yet, you dread going into work.

Well, fear not. I stumbled upon this article that'll give you the tips and tricks that'll get you through any day. Even if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

There's some pretty neat stuff here, but I'd love to hear what you have to say about doing work when you don't feel like it.

Drop a comment below and give us your secret tips.

How To Remain Productive When You Feel Like Giving Up

From Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

Like most people, some mornings I wake up and feel less than enthusiastic about working. Sometimes, this feeling doesn’t stem from laziness or apathy, it’s a stronger power, a sense of futility and helplessness. Read More…

How would you finish this sentence?  I stumbled upon a really cool blog post about book love and thought I might share it with you guys.

Feel free to drop a comment below and share your thoughts on book love. Just complete the sentence, "You know you're in love with a book when..."

"You Know You're in Book Love When ... "

By Steve Leveen from the Huffington Post

My Twitter pals recently surprised and delighted me when I posted this question: “You know you’re in book love when ... ” Here are some of the responses:

“you want to read aloud to whoever will listen!”–twitter.com/hchybinski

“…you recommend it to everyone even strangers.”–Sara Anderson @DIYSara Read More…

As you probably know by now, we featured Sean Stephenson on our blog a few months ago.

Sean is a good friend, so good in fact, we've hung out in four different countries in the last five months since we met.

We hung out with Richard Branson on his private island last May, in the British Virgin Islands.

We conducted a fun personal growth team retreat in Bali back in June, we spoke together at the Engage Today event in Calgary, Canada in September and in October we met up for a speakers and authors event at L.A.

So, like I said, Sean has been a good friend, UNTIL... two weeks ago.

You see, before that L.A. authors and speakers event, I happened to have traveled a lot, and so I couldn't prevent myself from falling asleep during an important speech.

Now, here's what happened next.

Sean that little devil filmed me falling asleep, and uploaded this video below to Facebook, until many people in my contact list saw the embarrassing moment.

After that, I swore I'd have my "revenge."

Now, a lot of people know Sean as a brilliant inspiring motivational speaker, a guy who inspires others to lead the best lives, bla bla bla. Eh, whatever.

What many people don't know is this: Sean Stephenson has his funny "dark side."

And given that his new TV show is launching this weekend, I want this to go out to as many people as possible.

Watch this scandalous video of Sean and discover this "dark side" I'm talking about.

Enjoy.

Oh, and btw, when Sean's television show launches, do NOT watch it.

BOYCOTT the TV show on the Bio Channel this Nov 15.

Read a book, bake lasagna, do anything except watching TV that day.

Sean is a disgrace to people in wheelchairs everywhere. Sean a best-selling author, inspiring speaker and stage legend?

Bah!

How about saboteur, playboy and 3-foot menace to society.

Ah, obviously, I'm kidding of course.

Sean is an amazing guy.

Do tune in to his new TV show which launches this Sunday. It's going to be fun and exciting.

Find out more about The 3-Foot Giant TV Show Launching this Sunday >>

So how well do you know your brain? Even though we rely on our brains for EVERYTHING, 90% (if not more) of people are oblivious to what's going up in their noggin'.

But here's the best part. Your brain is hardwired to help you in every endeavor you choose. All you need to do is "activate" it.

For a long time now, people have known about the brain's ability to operate at different wavelengths and frequencies. But not everyone knows what each form of brainwave does. So here's a crash course on the key brainwaves and how they can help you speed up your personal growth, feel more relaxed, and live a happier life. Read More…

We've been posting our articles up for so long and now it's time to show us what you've got! So here's the deal, we know you have articles you want us to publish and we're super psyched about reading them too. So send us your articles, we'll review it and if we do publish it, we'll give you a special surprise (and we do mean special - we're not just saying that!).

Here are some tips:

• Write about what you know. Or have experienced.
• Focus on one thing at a time. Try not to squeeze everything in one article.
• Keep it short. And interesting.
• Bullet points keep people reading.
• How-tos are very popular.

Here are some sample articles that did very well on FinerMinds:

• 5-steps on how to start every morning with energy that will carry on throughout the day
• Stop telling stories, start talking visions
• The 5 Benefits Of Fasting – For Your Mind, Soul, And Body
• The 5 levels of manifesting

What we're looking for:

• Articles on Personal Development and Spirituality.
• Manifesting - How manifesting worked for you. Your manifesting tips. Secrets of manifestations, etc.
• Meditations.
• Relationships.
• Self realizations.
• Original articles that haven't been published before

Where you can send us your article:

So you have all this week to send in your articles, we can't wait to read them! Just email them to me at hani [at] mindvalley [dot] com.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Love and light!