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GUIDE TO MEDITATION FOR STRESS: 7 of the best meditation methods for relaxing...
Meditation was developed at a time when stress was nowhere near the epidemic it is today. Yet, it’s one of the most effective ways to deal with stress because it trains the mind to better handle our...
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YOU’RE NOT ALONE: Merging images in meditation
“Stick to the image.” That iconic statement by my late uncle, the philosopher and Jungian psychologist James Hillman, takes me back to my early efforts, sitting and trying to meditate. I used to sit...
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BE STILL AND KNOW SELF: A meditation exercise for quieting the ego
Many wonder how they can learn to still themselves and move into a state of peacefulness. Stilling the mind as a beginner can become very frustrating because it may seem as though your thoughts...
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SHAMATHA MEDITATION: Q&A with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Tenzin Palmo got an early start on her Buddhist practice. She first got into Buddhism as a teenager in London, England, then went on to India at the age of 20, becoming one of the first Western women...
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JUST ONE BREATH: Week one of an eight-minute meditation program for beginners
The following article has been excerpted from 8 Minute Meditation by Victor Davich, the manual for an eight-week meditation program that is tailored to beginners and consists of exercises that take up...
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IGNORE YOUR MIND: Don’t give thoughts a second thought
I hated high school dances. I didn’t know the cool moves. I envied the guys with older sisters who would play records and make them dance with them—they looked so slick and confident out on the floor,...
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WALKING MEDITATION: Walk your way to mindfulness
A few months ago, the BBC did a piece on the death of “purposeless walking.” Many famous thinkers were walkers, including Henry David Thoreau, Constantin Brancusi and Friedrich Nietzsche, and wrote...
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ACCESSING THE SPACE WITHIN: A guided relaxation meditation to come to stillness
Through stillness, you can access what is unconscious and bring it to the surface. You can watch your mind with detachment and open and deepen your observation. You can make your state of relaxation a...
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FROM MARTIAL ARTS TO THE ASHRAM: A Yogananda disciple’s journey towards inner...
Excerpted from Meditation as a Way of Life by Reverend Alan Pritz, a guide to the meditative life based on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and a variety of religions, including Christianity....
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LEARNING TO BE ALONE: Accessing your inner stillness through meditation
Excerpted from Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach, in which author Diana Lang aims to guide and support all readers, regardless of their spiritual orientation, as they incorporate...
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SITTING IN THE WILDERNESS: How the Buddha and Christ overcame their obstacles...
Ah… summertime is here, and where I live, here in the northeastern part of the good old U.S.A., summertime means that nature has finally come back to life. For me that means that along with all the...
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Guided Meditation to Open Up Your Energy Centres
The following article is excerpted from Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Living the Life of Your Dreams by Marc Allen, a book that explains tantra for what it really is: a multifaceted wisdom...
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MEDITATION AND SUCCESS: How to develop a consistent meditation practice
Reprinted from SUPER GENES. Copyright © 2015 by Deepak Chopra, D.D., and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. Published by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random...
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THE IN BREATH AND THE OUT: Using guided breath meditation to transform dead...
Barbara and I sat across from one another in straight-backed chairs. She suggested that I sit with my feet flat on the floor and my hands resting loosely on my thighs. Before, I was sitting with my...
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BRING HEAVEN TO EARTH: Authentic meditation means focusing on self-expression...
Every evening after work he descended into his small basement apartment, assumed a lotus position in front of a blank space of wall and began counting his breaths, fiercely concentrating on each number...
View ArticleBHAVANA: How we grow as knowledge cultivators
Bhavana, meaning to cultivate or develop but commonly used in Buddhism as a word for meditation, once again flashes before my mind’s eye. Despite researching […]
View ArticleMINDFUL BREATHING: Exploring why it’s the core element of meditation
The following has been excerpted from Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-Five Paintings to Change the Way You Live, in which psychiatrist Christophe André uses well-known paintings by […]
View ArticleMEDITATION FOR “DUMMIES”: All it takes is two minutes of your time
So what is meditation, really? People always ask me, “What exactly is meditation?” It’s not rocket science. It’s not something weird and totally out of your reach. Meditation is very simple. It’s...
View ArticleFROM MARTIAL ARTS TO THE ASHRAM: A Yogananda disciple’s journey towards inner...
Excerpted from Meditation as a Way of Life by Reverend Alan Pritz, a guide to the meditative life based on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and a variety of religions, including Christianity....
View ArticleLEARNING TO BE ALONE: Accessing your inner stillness through meditation
Excerpted from Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach, in which author Diana Lang aims to guide and support all readers, regardless of their spiritual orientation, as they incorporate...
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