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Meditation For Depression Rivals Medication, Study Finds
Earlier this year Alice G. Walton, contributor at Forbes.com, wrote a great article detailing how meditation has the same grade of effect on depression as antidepressant medication. Alice tells the story of a team of researchers, led by Johns Hopkins’ Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH, and how they went through thousands of earlier studies in the…
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What Does Mindfulness Mean Anyway?
Through the practice of meditation, in its purest sense, we cultivate a standpoint of mindfulness. Mindfulness on the cushion is how we watch each thought, emotion or bodily sensation that comes up, we note what has come up, “Isn’t that interesting,” and we return to the breath, or just the feeling of being in our…
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Top 10 Meditation T-Shirts
T-shirts are a great way to make a statement about meditation, and be fashionable at the same time. But there are literally thousands of meditation t-shirts to choose from out there. Which to choose? If you mix in yoga, zen, buddha, spirituality, new age and religion themed t-shirts – the possibilities are endless. You can get chakra…
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Aligned, Relaxed & Resilient
From Will Johnson’s wonderful book, “The Posture of Meditation,” we find these three fundamental tenants of meditation. And when we allow ourselves to be aligned, relaxed and resilient in our daily lives, we automatically bring more presence to each moment. When our posture is aligned, the body is supported by the Earth’s gravity, and we…
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Meditation Quote 68: “I have lived with many Zen masters, all of them cats.” – Eckhart Tolle
Funny cats, cute cats, jumping cats, scary cats, wet cats… Who doesn’t love cats? Since they’re all so lovable and popular, is there something we can learn from them? Oh yes…! If you’ve ever been around a cat you probably know how wise they can seem with their stoic calm, nonchalant manner, and watchful eyes. And…
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The Practice Of Acceptance
When we practice how to surrender – because that’s what meditation is – and we do it on a regular basis, this becomes our mantra. We surrender to anything that comes up. Traffic has us late for work, we surrender. The boss dumped on us again, we surrender. The kids are sick, you’re sick, and…
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Meditation Quote 67: “In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious. More conscious than ever.” – Osho
Looking at an ancient hindu yogi, with a long beard, sitting in a lotus position with feet tucked together and eyes closed – you might begin to wonder if he is still in the conscious world, or if he has drifted off to somewhere else. If you ask the ancient yogi if he is conscious, he might…
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An Invitation To Slow Down
In order to make room in our busy lives for a daily practice of sitting quietly, we must commit to slowing down. This can be hard to do at first. Throughout our lives we’ve been rewarded for doing things more efficiently, faster is better, right? And thinking about slowing down some can even bring up…
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Meditation Quote 66: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
When you are super stressed, do you sometimes feel like you get nothing done. Yet when you are “in the zone” or “in the flow”, and act in a state of calm focus – free from hurry – you get a lot done in a short amount of time. Looking to nature, we see that…
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The Promise Of Meditation
When allowed to inform the rest of our lives, meditation provides a great opportunity. More calm, more clarity, more confidence all result from our daily practice of sitting, breathing and being still. And this stillness is made available to us at all times — there is even a sense that our daily life can become…