MyLifeYoga was started in mid 2011. At that point we had no idea that this was going to turn into a run away success and our posts would reach so many people. All we wanted is to create a platform for those who sought something deeper in life. Now that MyLifeYoga has turned into a thriving community, how can you make the most of it? This article provides some answers:
1. Get Inspired
The good news is that we are not alone in trying to find meaning in our lives. Many have trudged this path before and some have come back with great answers. MyLifeYoga makes it a point to document some of their stories. We have a special section called “Stories” devoted to this (See picture below). Here you will find stories of saints and mystics. You will also find stories of people like you and me who have found deeper meaning through yoga or selfless work, or have been helped with a health issue.
2. Let Your Hair Down
The beauty of life is that meaning and joy are related! When we are deeply engrossed in something and are doing meaningful work, we find the experience exhilarating. And those who have experienced deeper states of consciousness usually describe these in terms of an extremely joyous and blissful experience. But for rest of us mere mortals who may want to just escape from daily stress we have a section called “Stress busters” (See picture below). This has now grown into one of the largest collection of clean jokes you will find on the Internet. In addition we devote Friday’s to make lighthearted posts on our Facebook page.
3. Stay Connected
In today’s hectic life it is easy to miss out on the action and lose connection. Luckily we have provided multiple avenues to stay in touch and we suggest that you make the most of them. The easiest of these is to “Like” the MyLifeYoga Facebook page. To be doubly sure that our posts make it to your News Feed you may want to add the MyLifeYoga page to your “interest list”. (See picture below: Do this by going to the MyLifeYoga page of Facebook and click on the down arrow next to the “gear box” icon. This is next to the Message button. Then click on the “Add to interest list” menu item). You should also subscribe to our free newsletter that sends you one e-mail every week with a summary of the best posts of the previous week. We also have a twitter page and a youtube channel. We suggest you take advantage of ALL these avenues to stay connected!
4. Contribute
With our Facebook page reaching a daily audience of up to 150,000 people it would be very conservative to estimate that our posts have reached at least a Million people since inception! Google analytics tells us that our Web site is being visited by people from more than 120 countries all over the world! With this kind of reach its no wonder that we have found a large number of contributors who have provided us with guest posts. If you have a meaningful/insightful article and want your name to reach a wide audience, send us your post and we will love to share it with the MyLifeYoga community. Please also feel free to share with us articles or jokes that you like and think are suitable for the MyLifeYoga community.
5. Share
An easy way to participate in this community is to share. This is done simply by clicking frequently on the like or share button! Our community has been prolific in clicking the Like button with individual posts sometimes getting hundreds and even thousands of likes! We love it even more when you post your comment on our post or on the Facebook page. Your feedback is valuable to us and we use it actively to shape the content that we post. This is the reason for the rapidly growing popularity of MyLifeYoga: You spread the word around by clicking on the like button, and we learn what you like and tailor our posts accordingly!
6. Stay Informed
Countless readers have found MyLifeYoga to be a source of valuable information. They have told us this by liking our posts and by commenting on our posts. One way to look for good articles is to review our past posts and use the number of likes it has to guide you on how many people found it useful. You can do this by scrolling down to the bottom of the MyLifeYoga web page till you find the word “pages” along with green circles with numbers in them. You can click on these circles to go to previous weeks. Each circle represents a week and if you were to click on a circle with the number 1, it will take you to the five posts that we made 1 week ago. So clicking on a circle with number 4 will take you to our posts that were made 4 weeks ago.
Another easier way to find content is simply type what you are looking for in the search box on the top right corner of the MyLifeYoga web page and click on the magnifying glass or press enter.
Another good way to find good content is to look at “popular posts” section in the middle of the right panel of the MyLifeYoga web page. These are the top 10 posts of MyLifeYoga since inception.
MyLifeYoga has become an incredible free resource on the Internet with a large and rapidly growing audience. Its strength lies in the quality of its content and the dynamism of its community. As MyLifeYoga expands to keep pace with its growing community we hope that you will continue to benefit from it and this article should help you leverage what MyLifeYoga provides.
Credits:This has been written by Raj Shah and edited by Ketna Shah.