Categories: Enlightenment
A lot of people falsely assume that meditation and religion are a package deal. While it’s true that meditation can be used as a religious practice, meditation can still be used on its own in a secular fashion for health, sustainability and wellness. Meditation has deep roots in Hinduism and Buddhism, which is why so […]
Categories: Meditation for Children, Meditation Tips
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve talked about the growing trend of teaching children to meditate. Not too long ago, many of us thought meditation was exclusively a grownup pursuit, but that old paradigm is being shattered as more and more adults teach their children how to meditate. It turns out that children benefit […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Meditation for Children
Continuing my brief series on meditation for children, I’d like to take a look at some of the observed benefits of meditation for children. Meditation for children sounds like a novel concept, but the truth is, it’s something a lot of people have been working on for a long time, now. For example, it might […]
Categories: Meditation for Children
It’s interesting; we tend to think of meditation as something only for adults, but why is that? Maybe it’s because we assume children don’t have the patience or brainpower to effectively meditate. However, when you really think about it, though, there’s no reason children can’t, or shouldn’t, meditate. In fact, maybe that impatience we assume […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
So, last week we talked about how virtually every moment of your life can be viewed as an opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation; but once you learn how to recognize these opportunities, how do you successfully utilize them? If you’ve already been practicing mindfulness meditation, you probably already know what to do; but if you’re […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
When reading up on meditation techniques for beginners, it is often suggested that you should practice meditation for a certain amount of time every day – e.g., 20 minutes a day. While it is ideal that you set aside a fixed amount of time to meditate each day, that does not mean you have to […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Health and Wellness
Scientists used to believe that genes are a fixed thing. In other words, the genes you are born with are what determine who you are, and nothing can ever change that; they remain static, and cannot be altered. However, though the study of epigenetics, scientists began to realize that genes can be expressed in different […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
If you’ve been following this blog for some time, then no doubt you already know that meditation can do so many wonderful things to improve your health and your happiness, but there is one catch: You actually have to do it, and you have to be consistent. There’s nothing wrong with only meditating once per […]
Categories: Exercising Your Mind
We all love to joke about how much we procrastinate, but when we fail to meet goals and deadlines, the consequences are hardly funny. Procrastination is the enemy of success. It’s not that most people lack the talent, skill, dedication, or even motivation to succeed; it’s that they put off necessary tasks until the very […]
Categories: Meditating for Success
You’re standing up in front of a room full of people, and you’ve just dived into your speech that you’ve rehearsed a million times, when all of a sudden, something terrible happens: you forget your lines. Even worse, as you try to recover from the awkward silence and get back on track, you do it clumsily, stuttering […]
