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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...Begin your meditation by spending a moment noticing still water. See it. Or feel it. Or “hear” it. You might only experience still water for 1 second. Notice that. Then spend a few moments expressing gratitude. Refresh this practice by feeling grateful for all the things you take for granted. Clean water out of the [...]
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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...When I first began meditating, I found myself falling asleep a lot. Part of the problem (because I saw it as a problem) was meditating in the evenings. After the stress of a long work day, my mind seized on the opportunity to get quiet by going to sleep. Not unusual in our culture, as [...]
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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...As I wrote in my previous post, when practicing mindfulness, you remain in the present moment, curious about and open to the thoughts, feelings, and surroundings just as they are…rejecting nothing, and clinging to nothing. You hold a space of equanimity. And this is just what you do when you sit in meditation…except you don’t [...]
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Read the full article...I began meditating because of a broken relationship. When I talked my problem over with a mentor, she said, “You should meditate.” I was desperate: living in a black hole was no fun. Sometimes I felt I was standing on the edge of a cliff as anxiety threatened to push me over the edge. I [...]
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Read the full article...Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
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