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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>
		<category><![CDATA[become the objective witness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deliberate effort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law of karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[less reactive to negative situations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YeShey's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation for meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[need a group to practice?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obstacles to 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>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/meditate-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[meditate from the heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relax into the meditation]]></category>

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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>Carefree Dignity</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/carefree-dignity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 17:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carefree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dignity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you&#8217;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&#8217;t mean careless. It is not that you don&#8217;t care about others, not that you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All day mindfulness practice</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/all-day-mindfulness-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/all-day-mindfulness-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[YeShey's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all day mindfulness practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[categories of thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change the way we think]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[do these thoughts help me or harm me?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[know what you are doing when you are doing it]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During steps one and two we do our level best to keep our attention pinned to the object of focus &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation or Relaxation?</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/meditation-tips/meditation-or-relaxation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change how we think]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change what we think of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constant observation of the mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diaphragmatic breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation is fascinating]]></category>
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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>Commitment and Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/commitment-and-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/commitment-and-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Shamatha to Vipassana</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/from-shamatha-to-vipassana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/from-shamatha-to-vipassana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[YeShey's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calm silence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exceptional mental health and balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindfulness meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practise with joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shamatha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vipassana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.   [...]]]></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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		<title>The Breath in Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/the-breath-in-meditation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meditationvillage.ca/yesheys-blog/the-breath-in-meditation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YeShey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[YeShey's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breath and meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learn how to meditate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learn to meditate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why meditate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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