Meditation

Mystics, yogis and sages have for thousands of years proclaimed the significance of turning your attention inward to the realm of thoughts, sensations and emotions, also known as meditation. In modern times the benefits of meditation has taken the world of science,...

Are you a regular practitioner of yoga or meditation? Do you oftentimes get too distracted by your own thoughts? Consider then if mala beads can be the tactile guidance you need. Mala beads, from the sanskrit "mala" meaning garland, are string of beads that are...

Are you about to embark on your first silent meditation retreat? Are you terrified at the thought of being alone with your thoughts? Does the idea of sitting for prolonged periods of time without talking make you feel uneasy? If you answered yes to any of these...

Both Transcendental Meditation and Acem meditation are relatively young meditation techniques developed in the mid-twentieth century and involving the mental repetition of a mantra (which in Acem they refer to as a “method sound”). According to Wikipedia, a mantra is:...

Meditation has many potential benefits to offer, but one of my favorites is its ability to increase creativity. The perspective and awareness that meditation brings are the keys to the way your mind processes new and changing information. These thought patterns are...

Meditation can ultimately be done anytime, anywhere. Whether indoors, outdoors, in a tranquil forest or amid the chaos of the city, we can bring our awareness within, connecting with our breath, our physical body, a sacred mantra, the sensation in our pinky toes, a...

Meditation means different things to different people. For me, someone who has used meditation mostly as a tool to discover more about my natural state of being, I regard the essence of meditation to simply be the: cultivation of conscious awareness of the present...

You can define meditation in many different ways. That is to say, there's a lot of techniques, philosophies and perspectives on what meditation actually is. While most casuals view meditation as a practice or activity that one undertakes for a certain amount of time...

Most of us take ourselves to be our bodies and the chatting minds that occupies the body. In other words we feel like skin-encapsulated egos navigating a three-dimensional reality. That voice in our heads, we feel like that's kinda us, though maybe not completely. The...

Meditation is about bringing your attention to the immediacy of the present moment. Whether you're sitting, standing walking or lying down isn't the important part. For most people sitting meditation is probably the best way to start and subsequently maintain their...

Contrary to what many may think, meditation is not about posture, chanting OM or specific breathing techniques. Don't get me wrong, these things are great in their own ways and the lotus position is an attractive yogic invention but they are not essential to...

The meditative state is hard to describe, some would go so far as to call it impossible to put into words. I've described meditation as the: cultivation of conscious awareness of the present moment, as it is. That is indeed a good description of the process of...

One thing you should be clear about when it comes to meditation, is that you can't stop thoughts even if you're life depended upon it. Thoughts cannot be stopped by another thought or through sheer willpower. Whether you're aware of them or not thoughts are part and...

Meditation encompasses a family of complex practices that include mindfulness meditation, mantra meditation, yoga, tai chi, and chi gong. Of these practices, mindfulness meditation is one of the most popular. Jon Kabat-Zinn, a scientist who helped popularize...

Instant ecstasy through meditation? A feeling of intense emotion and pleasure through meditative insight? Is it possible? Yes. The human mind is a powerful phenomena that has arisen in and from nature. Pleasure and pain? Both can be induced by the mind at will. If you...

Meditation is a peculiar thing to do as a biological organism. Why should we stop and consider what and how we are, and not just function according to our nature, without any need to reflect and observe? Meditation is the conscious observing of the contents of...

How did we go from meditating in dark and silent hermit caves with a quest of achieving spiritual enlightenment, to meditating in 15-story high-rise apartment buildings with headphones on trying to boost performance and productivity in our day-to-day life? Times have...

editation, the art and method of cultivating conscious awareness. Discover what it is, what it does and the proven ways it can benefit you. There’s a reason why meditation has taken the western world by storm these last couple of decades. The...

Life consists of days. Good days, bad days, ok days, stressful days, peaceful days, weird days... well you get it. While some factors that make up a day are beyond our control, others or most factors I dare say are within our reach to do something about, if we but...

Mindfulness is available to each of us, but because our lives are often super busy, we can tend to rush through our days in “survival-mode”. It may seem counterintuitive, but the days when we’re the busiest, most rushed and most frantic are the days we most need...

There are many different ways to go about meditating. While some of these ways are intuitive and simple, like for example walking-, lying, standing- and sitting meditations, others are seemingly bit more complex, like say dynamic meditation or transcendental...

Some people think that meditation is only reserved for certain moments during the day. While this may in some regards be true, that is if you consider meditation to be the act of formally sitting down on your favorite meditation cushion or bench wrapped around a cozy...

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With all the craze around mindfulness and being mindful, one is sometimes confounded by what it is essentially. According to the influential book “The Mindful Way Through Depression Mindfulness”, mindfulness is: “The awareness that emerges through paying attention on...

Meditation and flow, some would argue two sides of the same coin. Whether that is true or not is up for grabs but what I've personally experienced is that by being meditatively aware of yourself and your surroundings you prime yourself to become more in tune with the...

Do you feel overwhelmingly self-conscious or shy? Do you constantly worry about what others are thinking of you? If you answered yes to either of those questions, you may be lacking self-confidence. Now it is important to know that genuine self-confidence is not an...

Meditation and Music can sometimes be mutually effective of relaxing ones overthinking mind! Music may come easier for some while meditation comes sweeter for others. I for one, both as an meditator and musician, have no difficulties with combining both of these...