Meditation Tips

• Three Meditation Techniques to Take into Your Life

  written by Simone on Thursday, September 30th, 2010

   
  Our state of mind has a direct effect on how we feel from moment to moment. Here are three techniques to increase your ability to hold your focus and create a calm relaxed mind/life.

  1.  Train yourself to check-in with your mind now and again throughout the day. Take a [...]

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• Meditate Until the Fear is Gone

  written by YeShey on Saturday, September 11th, 2010

  Why? How? What? These are always my questions. Sometimes the questions are too much. Just do it. Just try it. It worked.

  Now the question can be: how beautiful is that?

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• Five Ways to Get Present, Now

  written by Simone on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

  Here are five ways to get into the moment when you’ve lost your center and stess has taken over. Maybe you have heard all of these words of wisdom before; however, here is the medtitative or yogic perspective.  Remember, our mind, attachment to our thoughts, our stories, are the source of our suffering (stress); in order [...]

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• To read or to practise?

  written by YeShey on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

  Once we are able to observe the mind without distraction, we are able to begin investigation about ourselves and gain clear, intuitive insight.

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• 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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