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When I teach meditation, I always get questions as to the benefits of meditation. Below is a list of benefits that science researchers, MDs, and long-term meditators have found. I’ve just copied and pasted one of the slides that I use in these talks. What’s important to realize is that none of these benefits come [...]
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Read the full article...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...I began meditating 20 years ago to fix my imperfections. Of course, meditation didn’t go smoothly or perfectly, so I felt even more damaged and imperfect. Not a pleasant place to be – the very tool to make me feel good about myself was making me feel worse. Over these years of struggle, meditation worked [...]
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Read the full article...Like most human beings, I like pleasant things and dislike unpleasant ones. In fact, I used to really, really hate feeling yucky – “what’s wrong with me that I have these horrible feelings?” Over time, with mindfulness meditation, I’ve learned to make peace with the myriad of unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and sensations that assail me. [...]
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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...Hello everyone. Please forgive me for disappearing from this blog. In January, I came down with H1N1 (swine flu) in London. It took me 10 days before I could fly home and only now have I gotten my life back together. I want to share with you how grateful I am for my insight/mindfulness practice [...]
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Read the full article...When we practice lovingkindness, traditionally, we recite phrases of well-wishing to ourselves. We might feel loving, or we might not. We might feel kind, or we might not. If you don’t feel particularly kind or loving, then you have to proceed on faith. In mindfulness, faith has a different meaning than it does in traditional [...]
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Read the full article...Formal meditation is great all by itself. But it becomes even greater when we can translate the skills we learn in meditation into daily life situations. I was reminded of this as I sat in my dentist’s office this morning. The teeth cleaning: Because I have a tendency to develop plaque and tartar, having my [...]
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Read the full article...I practice mindfulness meditation for three main reasons: Learning about the mind; Training the mind; Creating spaciousness in the mind. It’s only through our mind that we relate to ourselves, interpret the world around us, and relate to others. Therefore, the more we understand how the mind views events, responds to problems, and reacts habitually, [...]
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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...You either control your mind or it controls you.
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