Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Health and Wellness, News
To be mindful means to be aware of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, bodily sensations, and even our surrounding environments. Mindfulness plays an essential role in the practice of meditation. It involves not only the acknowledgment of, but also the acceptance of, our feelings without passing judgment. Perhaps the best way to describe this is, to […]
Categories: News
It is estimated that 60 percent of men, and 50 percent of women, will experience a trauma at some point in their life. More than 10 percent of those people will experience post-traumatic stress disorder — PTSD — a debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by depression, fits of rage, and flashbacks. If that doesn’t sound like […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
Have you ever been meditating, and suddenly wondered if you’re doing it incorrectly, because thoughts keep popping into your head? Somehow, a long time ago, it became common knowledge that the purpose of meditation is to stop thinking. This is of course just a myth, and one that probably grew gradually over time from people […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation
Today, I have some very exciting news. It turns out meditation is spreading across the west like wild fire. As you might imagine, every so often I like to search the Internet for the latest news and research on the subject of meditation. Well, while doing my search today, the first two headlines I saw […]
Categories: Meditation Tips
Are you someone who enjoys cooking, or do you mostly view it as a chore? If you’re someone who likes to cook, then you’re probably already practicing mindfulness when you cook, even if you don’t realize it. However, if you’re someone who thinks of it as a chore, I’m going to share with you how […]
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: Exercising Your Mind
Meditation is not something you have to do for a set amount of time everyday, or even something that you necessarily have to set time aside for at all. To meditate is to be mindful, and to be mindful is a way of life, not just something you switch on for 20 minutes in between […]
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: 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 […]
