Trouble Sleeping? 4 Techniques for a Restful Night
Updated January 31, 2014. Trouble Sleeping? Most of us are on-the-go from the start of the day, tackling to-do lists and facing one distraction after another. By the time we are ready to end our day,...
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Try Meditation for Pain Relief
Did you know that meditation can help reduce the actual sensation of pain itself? That’s what some studies have shown. It’s one thing to agree that meditation can help you handle the experience of...
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Got the blues? Try Meditation for Depression
Updated March 14, 2014. Meditation has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, but it can also be used to fight depression. Mindfulness meditation can help you build your own inner resources and lift...
View ArticleMeditation for Healing Arthritis
Updated February 25, 2014. Watch this video of Barbara Allan, author of “Conquering Arthritis.” She talks about good meditation versus bad meditation. (4 mins) At age 25 Barbara Allan became one of...
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Meditation for Diabetes Control in Nebraska
Meditation for Diabetes: Watch the video about the Ho-Chunk Tribe’s Success. (7 mins) The people of the Ho-Chunk tribe on the Winnibago Reservation, Nebraska, have an abnormally high rate of diabetes....
View ArticleResearch: Mindfulness Meditation for IBS
Practicing mindfulness meditation over an 8-week period reduces the severity of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms in women, according to a study published in The American Journal of...
View ArticleGuided Meditation for Chronic Pain
Meditation can be used to reduce pain even more than morphine and other pain relieving drugs. Try this guided meditation for chronic pain management and pain relief – without drugs, without side...
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Meditation for Men
Meditation is a distinct way of learning how to be present in your mind and body in this moment. A way of turning inward and finding calm from within, pushing away the stresses and worries of the day....
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Stop a Panic Attack
A panic attack is a sudden onset of fear or anxiety, and there are ways to stop it by meditational breathing techniques. If you’ve ever experienced one, you know that they may cause shortness of...
View ArticleJon Kabat-Zinn on Benefits of Meditation
What are the benefits of meditation? In this video, Jon Kabat-Zinn reminds us how, with meditation, you can transform your life. Meditation is profoundly healing. How? In more ways than we ever...
View ArticleMeditation gets ADHD Kids Off Medication
Check out this ABC News clip and interview with two boys, Ryan and Jaden, ADHD diagnosed, who are now virtually off their medications after beginning a meditation practice. The meditation style...
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Meditation Benefits: Can Meditation Make You Rich?
There are a lot of amazing benefits to meditation. Here are a few meditation benefits that immediately come to mind: stress relief, relaxation, improved concentration, creativity, joy, ease of being,...
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10 Ways Meditation Enhances Creativity
Everyone knows that meditation can reduce stress and calm your mind, but the many ways that meditation enhances creativity is one of its lesser-known benefits. From liberating you from fixed habits of...
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13 Frequently Asked Questions On How to Meditate Properly
If you have questions about meditation, you’re not alone–and you’ve come to the right place. This FAQ will expand over time, so if you don’t see your question here (or don’t like our answer), please...
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Embracing Change: My Top New Year's Resolutions
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution? New Years is a great time for reflecting on what’s most important, setting our intentions for the year to come, and embracing change. Today, I invite you to share...
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How To Meditate For Beginners: The 3 Ingredients You Need to Succeed
If you want to learn to meditate, there is a seemingly endless variety of practices, paths, and techniques to choose from. But in the end, all you really need to begin practicing meditation are three...
View ArticleMeditation For Health & Vitality
What is the real source of health? Is it the food we eat and the amount of sleep and exercise we get? Of course, but is there more to it? A Free Guided Meditation In this powerful and free guided...
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Meditation for Children: 7 Steps to Introduce Meditation in the Classroom
Mindfulness in Math Class For seventeen years years, I have been teaching mathematics to high school students in Australia and the US. I have always loved teaching, and mathematics has been a passion...
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Can Meditation Change the World?
I teach meditation, and one question I hear a lot is a variation on this. “Is meditation a selfish pursuit, or can it really help change the world? And if so, how?” Maybe you have that same question?...
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How To Find Limitless Confidence Through Meditation
I love meditating. I do it every day and practice a form of meditation called Free Awareness. I didn’t always love it though. I used to struggle with it all the time. Truth be told, I probably spent...
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Why You Are Struggling in Meditation & 10 Steps to Turn it Around
Are you struggling in meditation? If you are, you’re not alone. It took me around 10 years meditating 2 hours every day before the balance shifted from chronic struggle to steady state meditation....
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When Is It Too Late for You to Start Meditating?
It happened in slow motion. I was flying through the air. My motorcycle helmet skidded down the highway. I was a million miles from home. Studying on the other side of the world in Australia and...
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5 Ways That Meditation Makes You Happy
Are you happy? I mean, really happy? What do you think of when you imagine happiness? For me, I think of people smiling and laughing in a beautiful place with their friends. Everyone is attractive,...
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How Does Meditation Improve Your Relationships?
Do you ever get in disagreements with your significant other? I do. Does it cause friction and tension in your relationship? It definitely does in mine. And as I get older, this seems less surprising...
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How To Get Rich With Meditation
Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you. — Lao Tzu Are you rich? Do you feel that you have what you need to...
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Mindfulness And The Myth Of The Unreal Other
“That dude cut me off! What a jerk!” is a sentiment I *may* have expressed a few times in my life. But what do I truly know about the other driver? When I call him a jerk, I’m basing my entire opinion...
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How I Started Teaching Meditation (And How You Can Too)
I remember the moment I decided to start helping other people learn how to meditate. It was about 17 years ago, right after a retreat with Shinzen Young. (Read on to the bottom to learn about a...
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Your Mindful To-Do List
Who doesn’t have a to-do list? That familiar cascade of items which never seems to clear fully. It sure seems that as soon as it shortens, twelve more things find their way on the end of that list (or...
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Meditation IS NOT Spiritual Bypassing
When I teach meditation I ask people to sit still and not make a problem out of whatever their experience happens to be. And I explain that what we experience in meditation doesn’t matter because the...
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Everything Fell Apart. Here’s How Meditation Helped Me Turn It Around
In my previous post, I described how a 5 night solo retreat to celebrate my 40th birthday supercharged my life. Spending focused time alone to dive into one’s depths has been part of my spiritual...
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I Almost Died. Meditation Was (and IS) My Anchor.
This is my fifth year of keeping a formal journal. Along with meditation and marathon running, daily journaling is one of my core spiritual practices. My day-to-day experience can often feel like a...
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How to Boost your Meditation with Embodiment
Are you in your body? Pause and examine your experience. Right now. Before reading further. I don’t mean that I want a catalog of your sensations, your thoughts and emotions. Observing and cataloging...
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Accessing Unlimited Possibility
Possibility is a powerful word. Whenever we say something is possible it means it can happen. It is real. Reality is defined by what is possible and what is not possible. Changing our reality means...
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Helping Heal The World
I’ve had many clients come in my office and in speak on how the current political and social climate is affecting them either directly or indirectly. Regardless of their individual beliefs, the...
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This Is How Becoming A Father Transformed Me
I’m 41 years old and have a 2-year-old son. Relatively speaking, I’m a little late to the parenting game. Until a few years ago, I had no interest in having children whatsoever. I had lived in an...
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The Miracle of Meditation
My first book was called The Miracle of Meditation and that title perfectly describes exactly what I feel unendingly inspired to share with people. My practice of meditation has blessed me with the...
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How to Connect your Practice and your Life–with Walking
Walking is a fundamental theme in my life. Each step beats like a metronome, both setting my pace and responding to the pace of my life. Step. Step. Breath. Breath. My love of walking started when I...
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The Art of Embodied Listening
The new year is traditionally a time of resolution. We take stock of the past year and decide how we’d like to change or do better. We renounce what isn’t working and are filled with a renewed sense of...
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Mindful Sex: Transforming Intimate Relationships Through Meditation
As a practice, meditation can open up a whole realm of possibility. We derive many different benefits from cultivating greater mindfulness in our daily lives. Don’t worry; this is not going to be...
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Love is the Ultimate Reality
Part 1: Stepping into Perpetual Freedom “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein, physicist When I speak of spiritual freedom I’m speaking about being released...
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Distractions, Distractions Everywhere!
I run a meditation group at my office twice a week. Not too long ago, someone lamented after a session, “I couldn’t relax, I kept hearing the ticking of the clock – it was so distracting!” While I...
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How Stable Is Your Confidence? Exploring Running, Money, and Stillness
I’ve been meditating daily for about 18 years. I’ve been selling professionally for almost 16 years (I was previously a social worker). I’ve been running as a spiritual practice for 15 years....
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Intuitive Alignment – Reconnecting to Our Intuitive Ground
As an intuitive mentor, healer, and fellow spiritual explorer, I encounter a lot of individuals who have a longing to be connected to their intuition. They yearn to be in a state of flow and trust in...
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