YeShey's Blog

• 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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• 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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• Carefree Dignity

  written by YeShey on Monday, May 24th, 2010

  “Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t [...]

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• All day mindfulness practice

  written by YeShey on Saturday, May 15th, 2010

  During steps one and two we do our level best to keep our attention pinned to the object of focus – the breath. The biggest obstacle to achieving this single pointed concentration are the thoughts.   The meditation instructions remind us over and over to not engage in the thoughts. When a thought arises, do [...]

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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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• Commitment and Experience

  written by YeShey 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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• From Shamatha to Vipassana

  written by YeShey 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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• 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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