“Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it…Going nowhere as a way of cutting through the noise and finding fresh time and energy to share with others…” – Pico Iyer Find Moments of Stillness in Your Day As Mindfulness practices, including meditation, catch hold and move into prominence in our present culture … Read More
Become a Presence of Peace
Can your simple presence bring peace to others and influence situations? You must first believe that it’s possible, be willing to act as a peaceful influence, by silent example when you can, and then speak up if necessary. Our potential to affect others is both a gift and a responsibility. When we walk into a room our energy is communicated … Read More
The Path of Meditation
Our Meditation Practice guides us inward to experience an awareness that is deeper than thought. In this place we find stillness in the restful awareness of meditation, and go past our fears and confusion to connect with our soul. Thoughts of separation can evaporate as we connect with the universal unity of consciousness. We can then become interconnected with our … Read More
Loving Kindness Meditation
In his book Wherever You Go There You Are Jon Kabat-Zinn teaches us Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. He observes “You may have noticed that you are not always the center of love and kindness, even toward yourself.” He suggests that in our modern society one might speak of an epidemic of low self-esteem, that we can help ourselves repair … Read More
The Golden Moment – Mindfulness in Action
Have you noticed in your meditation sessions that you are both distracted by and absorbed in thought? Well that’s the point – meditation and mindfulness practices are about teaching our minds to switch focus, because our minds are always processing and thinking. When we realize that we are not actually meditating on our breathing, we gently bring ourselves back to … Read More
What Meditation Teaches You
As you become more consistent with your meditation practice, you gain deeper insights into the truest version of yourself. This self-reflection can then become a discovery process that will guide you along your path towards self-contentment and well-being. Your meditation practice teaches you to become more aware of your thoughts as you learn how to release them and to restore … Read More
Mindfulness Meditation – Easy Steps to Daily Practice
Mindfulness only asks us to pay attention to the present moment with a kind, curious attitude and without judgment. And so the practice of Mindfulness Meditation can be simple since we just breathe in and out, noticing where our attention wanders, and bringing the focus back to the breath again. It‘s a unique kind of meditation because it helps us … Read More
Begin Your Meditation Practice
Perhaps you have heard that a meditation practice bestows the benefits of a more relaxed, alert mind and body, and a sense of well-being and self-awareness. Yet we still have fears and misconceptions about personal meditation that inhibit our efforts to establish a consistent practice. There are several common fears of new meditators: Meditation takes too much time. Actually, regular … Read More
Why is Everyone Talking About Meditation?
Call it intuition, an inner intelligence or perhaps a connection to Spirituality. However you choose to define it, it’s in the practice of meditation, this quieting of the mind and detaching from your thoughts, that you allow your inner guidance to be at rest. When you get your mental clutter out of the way, you may be better able to … Read More