Meditation Tips

• What is mindfulness? Why does it matter?

  written by Simone 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

  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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• The Mind in Meditation

  written by YeShey on Monday, December 28th, 2009

  What do I do with my mind in meditation?
  The first problem we encounter when meditating is that our minds do not want to cooperate. We want the mind to focus on the breath but it runs off in every direction. We need to learn how to manage and relax the mind to in [...]

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• Winter Solstice Meditation

  written by YeShey on Thursday, December 17th, 2009

  In the northern hemisphere, winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, the time of stillness, quiet, death. It is also the time of renewal, it marks the shortest day but this leads to December 22 which promises more sunlight and the 23rd promises more again. The solstice is a great [...]

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• Meditating from the Heart

  written by YeShey 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 so early?

  written by Simone on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

  The thing I hear most is “Why so early?!” and sometimes the words are not that kind…This is the single biggest challenge for most of us, certainly for me, getting my bum on the cushion every morning. What I know for sure [thanks Oprah] is that if I don’t start my day with meditation, if [...]

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