Just Released!

New CD Release: Within the real: daily meditations for happiness

by Salima Stanley-Bhanji

Within the Real is really a response to my own need to find the words to express myself in a devotional language that is not attached to any faith, set of beliefs or group. I use the word ‘devotional’ because of my own devotion to improving myself and yet accepting myself, to creating happiness in my life and yet accepting sadness and all the other shades of experience, to contributing as much as I can to others and to the world without it being charity, without creating superiority or division, but by developing recognition of the connectedness of everything and everyone.

When I decided on a title for this project, I wanted it to convey the idea that in order to explore, understand or develop the part of ourselves that some may call ’spiritual’, we do not need to escape from the real world. Rather, the real world can serve as a playground for us to discover, just as a child discovers how to slide, climb, swing and fall.

The ten CD tracks are of varying length to be incorporated easily into daily life. They are intended to bring intention to our daily living, to provide awareness of our body and mind, to increase our experience of gratitude, our sense of openness and our ability to self-accept, to refresh and to calm, to forgive and – to be happy.

– Salima