Posts Tagged ‘benefits of meditation’

• Celebrate Contentment

  written by Lesley on Monday, April 29th, 2013

  What is wrong with this comment: “I only meditated twice this week” Lets applaud the fact that I meditated twice this week!!!!!  Doing the actual practice of meditation on a daily basis is super hard!!! It takes patience and more patience to work towards a daily practice. [...]

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• Workplace mindfulness: an antidote to burnout?

  written by Simone on Monday, April 15th, 2013

  Stress is not going away. Over the last 30 years, self reported levels of stress have increased 18% for women and 25% for men. Job related stress has been identified by the World Health organization as a “world wide epidemic.” The bottom line cost of stress for companies, in [...]

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• Is this thought in my best interest?

  written by Simone on Saturday, March 16th, 2013

  Once we become familiar with how our own minds work and the kind of thoughts we habitually focus on, we can begin to better choose the thoughts that are in our best interest. As an exercise (a great place to start is at work), during the day check-in and ask yourself, when [...]

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• What is more powerful, a Word, Action or Thought?

  written by Simone on Sunday, February 17th, 2013

  “What is more powerful a Word,  Action or a Thought?” — from Step One, Breaking Ground, Week 2, ‘A Centred Mind’ Outwardly it appears our actions, followed by our words and then our thoughts shape our lives; yet upon further investigation we see that our thoughts – correction, our [...]

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• Wake Up Get Up

  written by Lesley on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

  Like any positive change, getting to the cushion, waking up a bit earlier – requires effort. At first it may require a lot of effort until it becomes a new habit, a new behaviour, a new way of being.

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• Children, meditation and world peace

  written by Simone on Monday, January 11th, 2010

  Last year the David Lynch Foundation along with the Transcendental Meditation Program launched a campaign to “Teach One Million At-Risk Youth to Meditate.” The goal of their global peace initiative is to bring meditation to youth, parents and staff in schools around the world in hopes of reducing the effects of stress [...]

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