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I don’t know the exact statistics, but from experience, I’d guess that the drop-out rate of people who try meditating and then give up is over 80%. And that’s totally understandable. Because: simple ≠ easy. The actual process of meditation is simple and the day-to-day practice can be difficult, frustrating, and discouraging. But this drop-out [...]
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Read the full article...For this past Monday’s post about how to meditate when you have pain, we received a great comment from Toni, a long-term mediator and author of the book, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers (2010). While this book has the word “Buddhist” in it, you will find [...]
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Read the full article...Della wrote the following comment to Ruby’s post ….: “I agree that meditation is a challenge for me. Very often, something is hurting me – my head, my back, my neck. It can be quite distracting. I find that repeating a mantra – my favorite is – ‘God is here. All is well,’ helps me [...]
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Read the full article...Anna wrote, “I believe that meditation [has] a lot of benefits, now do you think it also has disadvantages?” I decided to answer her as a post because I think she asked a fascinating question. According to Encarta Dictionary (2005), synonyms for “disadvantage” include: difficulty, drawback, shortcoming, weakness, hindrance, handicap, detriment, minus, demerit, inconvenience At [...]
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Read the full article...My post for this week honors and is in memory of my cousin, Morris Cohn. Almost 20 years ago, he became my first meditation teacher, though I have to admit that for years before he kept urging me to meditate. I should have listened to him for meditation has and is bringing great joy into [...]
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Read the full article...We designed this site as a place for people to come for healing, stress reduction, and creating a joy-filled life. Besides offering you experienced teachers, solid, well-documented information, we also want you to feel safe and trust that we respect your confidentiality. This mean, we promise that we will neither give nor sell your information. [...]
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Read the full article...The common term for this form of meditation is “walking meditation.” I believe, however, that people on crutches or in wheelchairs can gain the same benefits doing this meditation as the bipedal folks do. When meditating, you focus or concentrate your mind on a single object. In moving meditation, you have options as to where [...]
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Read the full article...Let’s face it, we can’t always sit to meditate every day. So, what’s a person to do? On those hectic days, I do mini “standing” meditations. Yes, just the simple act of remaining quietly in one place becomes a chance for mindfulness meditation. No, you don’t have to remain there forever to experience the special [...]
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Read the full article...I don’t know about you, but I’m a perfectionist so that when I meditate I want to do it perfectly. In the past that meant sitting with a quiet, non-thinking, peaceful mind that never left the breath; of course, that also meant I always fell short of my ideal. After a while, when it came [...]
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Read the full article...We are creating the quality of our experience by our response to that experience.
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by Beth on September 13, 2010
While at this time we haven’t had a lot of comment activity, I still want to create a guide for leaving comments as a way of sharing our values. We’ve created this site for you to find peace in a world at war. We want all individuals to feel safe in what they read and [...]
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