Categories: Blog, Health and Wellness
There are many levels of observation you can practice while walking. For the sake of simplicity, I’ve broken them up into four distinct levels: sensations, feelings, emotions, and self-awareness. Once you have practiced all of the levels, you might find that you like one better than another, or that you like to interchange them, and […]
Categories: Health and Wellness
Today I’m going to walk you through — no pun intended — a basic walking meditation session. The first thing you’re going to have to do is find a place where you can walk around freely for about 20 minutes without a great deal of distractions. Some good places to look for might be a […]
Categories: Health and Wellness
Wouldn’t it be great if you could meditate without having to sit still? Well, you can. It’s called “walking meditation” and it’s a great way to exercise your mind and body simultaneously. So, what is walking meditation? What is the objective? In simplest terms, walking meditation is walking for the sake of walking. You’re not […]
Categories: Enlightenment
In the western world, we often times have a different view of reality: We tend to think that we are in control of every situation, and that we are the master of our environment; when in fact, we are shaped by our environment, and the way our environment shapes us is what controls how we […]
Categories: Meditation and Military
It’s ironic that the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country have such a hard time finding work after they leave the military, but it’s a harsh reality that so many veterans have to face. What so many people don’t realize is that when you leave military-life for […]
Categories: Exercising Your Mind
If you have been following my blog, then you’re certainly no stranger to mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation essentially is the act of observing random thoughts that pop into your brain, and then pushing them out to refocus on the present moment. Mindfulness meditation works wonders for a slew of problems, such as depression, anxiety, stress, and even […]
Categories: Meditation and Military, PTSD
If you’ve been following this blog, you probably know a good deal about PTSD — post-traumatic stress disorder — by now. In case you do not, PTSD is a type of psychological disorder that is brought on by a traumatic experience. As you might imagine, veterans are among the most common to suffer from PTSD […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
If you’re an average American, your day might go something like this: An alarm on your phone, or clock, or both, wakes you up; you immediately get on your smart phone or your laptop to check your email and check in on your social networks; you then go into the kitchen and flip on the […]
Categories: Meditation and Military, Pain Management
Many of our brave men and women are secretly suffering from chronic headaches that occur after receiving a devastating injury to the head. They are called post traumatic headaches and they are a side effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI). More than 30% of TBI victims report ongoing headaches that continue to worsen after their […]
Categories: Corporate Meditation
When you think of “team building exercises” in the corporate environment, you might immediately start to conjure up images of people crammed together in conference rooms sitting through boring seminars, or perhaps a ridiculous game of Capture the Flag on a “casual Friday” in the company courtyard. The last thing you might imagine is an […]
