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Most people, myself included, begin meditating to become a happier person and to create a more peaceful and fulfilling life. Of course, many of us want it all NOW. It’s Ok if meditation’s going to be difficult the first one or two times, but more than that it’s really irritating. I’m not meditating to get [...]
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Read the full article...How would you like to: Manage stress by reducing levels of stress hormones. Produce higher number of blood cells that protect the immune system. Have better quality and duration of sleep. Feel greater optimism about coming days and immediate week. Make more progress towards important personal goals. Have higher states of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness, [...]
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Read the full article...When you meditate, do you want a still, peaceful, and non-chatty mind? After each meditation, do you analyze what you could have done better? Do you strive hard to be a “good” mediator? If you answer yes to any of these three questions then this post is for you. Until the past few years, I [...]
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Read the full article...I have heard two of my favorite teachers, both Westerners who are Buddhist monks and the abbots of monasteries, teach and work with the “sound of silence” or the “nada” sound as the object of focus during meditation. I began practicing with nada a few years ago and have found that it works for me, and [...]
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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...Learning to meditate is like developing any other skill. Some very few people have natural talent; the rest of us have to work at it. Think of any skill you’ve developed—learning to drive, playing tennis, playing the guitar. Consider a skill you’ve learned as an adult. I learned to ice-skate when I was 37. First [...]
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Read the full article...Meditation has never been easy or comfortable for me. I’m not one of those folks who taste the delight of peace and stillness in meditation unless I’m on a retreat, and even then it takes a fairly long time for me to get there, and it tends to be brief and fleeting. Most of my [...]
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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...There are many different kinds of meditation practices. When we sit down and close our eyes, we could be doing any number of things, from visualizing a peaceful scene, to working on concentrating the mind, to cultivating a particular attitude of mind by repeating suggestive phrases. When we bring our attention to the sensations of [...]
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Read the full article...Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.
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