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Meditation Drastically Increases Brain Performance
A new study, published in the journal PLOS ONE in July 2014, has found that different types of meditation can have entirely different effects on the body and mind. In a story by “News Medical”, the study is described in further detail: “Contrary to popular belief, not all meditation techniques produce similar effects of body and mind. Indeed, a recent…
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The Power Of Attention
What we choose to pay attention to — where we invest our resources (like time, dollars, love, smiles) — determines, in large part, our overall level of happiness. If we spend our days focused on how things never go our way, or how the boss is always gunning for us, or how there never seems…
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There Is Nothing Bigger Than Jim Carrey?
We all know the super funny and successful comedian Jim Carrey. But did you know that he is a devoted meditator and believer in the power of meditation? I can find no clear facts about when Jim Carrey started meditating, but in this 2006 clip from “60 Seconds” you can see his favorite meditation spot “where I hang…
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Graceful Living
Most of us, for most of our lives, have been doing what we’re told. Striving to live up to the expectations explicitly handed us or implicitly demonstrated to us. We’ve been good children for our parents. Good students for our teachers. Good wives, husbands, parents, sisters, brothers. Good employees. And we’ve been rewarded for doing…
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Meditation Quote 75: “Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action…” – Dan Millman
We often find ourselves in a state of rush, stress and worry. Worrying about the future, regretting the past, and hurrying along to complete the next task. And alas, the moments pass by without us noticing. Days becomes weeks, weeks become months, months become years – all without taking some time to pay attention to…
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Have A Great Day, And Adam Redesign!
I redesigned my bi-daily blog posts here at Daily Meditate, so I wanted to make a post about the new changes! Every other day, I will share a few words on seeing the world a bit more clearly, living with less stress, and simply relaxing more fully into this beautiful life. I’ll also include one of…
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Let’s Meditate With Eckhart Tolle
Today I want to invite you to join in on a talk about meditation with Eckhart Tolle – in the form of video from the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 conference. Eckhart Tolle teaches us about meditating on the present moment, and how the present moment is an amazing thing (Eckhart makes a disclaimer himself that it is of course…
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Realizing Connection
I heard someone say this week that they were feeling a bit disconnected from the world. Feeling like they had no one to go to, just drifting along, up in the air, and this was causing her to feel bad about things. Lost. Sometimes we feel this way. Sometimes we get lonely. And this is…
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Meditation Quote 74: “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
One day you’re happy and the sky is the limit. Then something happens that throws you off, and you feel like whole world is falling apart. How do you cope with this? Feelings have a strange way of making our whole day different. One single thought, comment, event or atmosphere – and a new feeling is…
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When Your Thoughts Overwhelm
There are always going to be those times when rampant thinking prevents settling into the experience before us. What do we do then? Just keep breathing. The thoughts may even have us overlook our meditation practice, “There’s no way I can sit today, things are just too noisy.” Yet these are the moments that offer…