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Meditation or Relaxation?
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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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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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Commitment and Experience
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on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 If the experience is not what we expected when we made our commitment, should we drop the commitment? Are commitment and experience connected? Does our commitment depend on our experience? In my humble opinion, my answer is no. The commitment has nothing to do with the [...]
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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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From Shamatha to Vipassana
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on Monday, January 18th, 2010 Shamatha meditation is taught in Steps 1 and 2 of our Mindfulness Meditation Program. Shamatha is translated as calm abiding or quiescence and its purpose is to give us the opportunity to experience a state of calm silence and single pointed concentration. The result is an experience of exceptional mental health and balance. [...]
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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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The Mind in Meditation
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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 [...] -
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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Winter Solstice Meditation
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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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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 [...]
