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		<title>Is my priority peace of mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to live in the moment, when most of your moments take place in Maui.&#8221;    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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Wellness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accept what comes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need a group to Meditate with?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/do-we-need-a-group-to-meditate-with/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[motivation for meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Meditate from the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;center&#8217;.    When we use the brain as the center during meditation, it can be very difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are you meditating? What&#8217;s your motivation?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/why-are-you-meditating-whats-your-motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation Journey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tranquility of the Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation or Relaxation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is mindfulness? Why does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/what-is-mindfulness-why-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children, meditation and world peace</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/children-meditation-and-world-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.meditationvillage.ca/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mind in Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/the-mind-in-meditation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/the-mind-in-meditation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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