Posts Tagged ‘meditation’
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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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The Breath in Meditation
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on Friday, December 11th, 2009 When we are meditating we do not alter or change the breath in any way. One of the greatest reasons to meditate is to see things just as they are, same with the breath during meditation – we just observe it, we do not change it. During the first two steps of [...]
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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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Resistance, a most common approach to life
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on Friday, November 20th, 2009 I watched as my brother started the process of putting his son to bed. His then two and half year old screamed and cried – seems he really didn’t want to go to bed. My brother inquired without judgment, “you can do this the hard way or you can do this the easy way, it is [...]
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Meditating from the Heart
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on Friday, October 30th, 2009 Meditating from the Heart Because our brain is in our head, and we are used to thinking in our head, we often meditate from our head. Try meditating from the heart. At first this instruction may seem unclear – so how do I meditate from my [...]
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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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