Meditation Tips

• Is my priority peace of mind?

  written by Simone on Saturday, July 24th, 2010

  “It’s easy to live in the moment, when most of your moments take place in Maui.” Sometimes the stresses of the day can be too much. I realized that I brought home with me and allowed stay for the evening thoughts of the day; conversations real and imagined along with all of the [...]

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• What is Wellness?

  written by YeShey on Friday, July 16th, 2010

  As our practice matures, we learn to become an objective witness. We learn to watch the mind and not get caught up in the endless chain of thoughts. We learn to receive and let go without all of the drama. This will help transform us.

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• Do we need a group to Meditate with?

  written by YeShey on Monday, June 28th, 2010

  The best meditation resolution for me was to just do it and ignore the rest of mental chatter giving me reasons not to do it right now.

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• Meditate from the Heart

  written by YeShey on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

  As busy modern people we tend to process our daily activities, our difficulties, our traumas and everything else in the head; with the brain.  As a result we are used to using this as our ‘center’. When we use the brain as the center during meditation, it can be very difficult to [...]

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• Why are you meditating? What’s your motivation?

  written by Simone 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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• The Tranquility of the Mind

  written by YeShey on Sunday, April 11th, 2010

  In meditation there is total stillness and total silence. The mind is undistracted by anything internal or external. Of course this does not come to us in the first days or weeks of meditation. It happens gradually and with the assistance of a well rounded outlook on who we are and [...]

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• Meditation or Relaxation?

  written by YeShey on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

  Yesterday Simone and I were doing meditation presentation for two great groups of heath professionals.  Interestingly; the same comments came up at both seminars. “I use meditation to help me to relax and fall asleep and during the meditation practice today I fell asleep”. It is important to understand [...]

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• 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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