Posts Tagged ‘meditate’
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Why are you meditating? What’s your motivation?
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on Saturday, June 12th, 2010 “Why am I meditating?” is the single most important question to ask and answer for yourself as you begin. Honestly, some early mornings, my motivation or goals, or hopes for some future state of mind are the only reason I meditate. Knowing, honestly why you are meditating will help you get onto the cushion when [...]
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Guilt & Meditation
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on Monday, April 5th, 2010 The other day a gal who is meditating with us came to me and apologized profusely for not meditating as often as she hoped, “I am so sorry, I have been so busy, I will start again soon, I feel so guilty, I will get back to it, I promise.” I could literally feel her [...]
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Top Seven Mindfulness Tips
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on Friday, March 5th, 2010 In becoming more mindful we create more presence, peace and joy for ourselves and the world around us regardless of what is happening ‘out there.’ It is not just a tactic to reduce stress in the moment, but mindfulness creates a stable foundation to our lives and a more effective way of being in the world. How do [...]
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What is mindfulness? Why does it matter?
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on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to our inner world and the world around us. Here is a little exercise we sometimes give to gain an understanding of what mindfulness or meditation is and why it is vital in creating an inner world by your own design and an outer world that [...]
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Children, meditation and world peace
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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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Too busy to meditate?
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on Friday, December 18th, 2009 It’s ironic that the #1 reason (we hear) people don’t’ meditate is “I am too busy.” “I will start meditating when things calm down a bit,” “I will start my meditation practice when things are less hectic, when my children get a little older and there is more peace and quiet in the house.” Hey, [...]
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Is one recurring thought keeping you fat?
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on Friday, December 4th, 2009 Confession: I love the Biggest Looser. I know it totally manipulates our emotions and the product placement/commercials within the show are atrocious. But as I watch their journey’s; the hard work and the personal vulnerabilities and realizations they share with the world, it confirms for me that with access to, an understanding of, and ability to [...]
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What Brings Us To Meditation?
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on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Most of us come to the spiritual path because we are experiencing something in life that we don’t like, something that we want to overcome. At some level we have a dissatisfaction, a pain, some form of suffering. Perhaps we have already tried various ways of overcoming the suffering. We found that some methods helped [...]
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Why meditation doesn’t work
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on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 From The Bible to The Secret (not that I have put them in the same category) there is a huge breadth and depth of spiritual programs, people and practices teaching us how to live our best lives, be happier, more successful, fulfilled and realized. Without fail, they mostly all tell us, usually in Chapter One, that we must [...]
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Are we addicted to thinking?
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on Friday, October 16th, 2009 I talk to lots of people about meditation. We were just at the Yoga and Pilates Conference in Vancouver where I heard about participant’s experience with meditation. Interestingly, the thing we heard most was ”I can’t meditate because I can’t stop thinking …” Imagine that, the very thing we are trying to get a little control over, a little respite from, [...]
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