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Stress Is Optional, Let It Be
Modern life is full of pressure, frustration, and stress. Worrying about job security, being overworked, driving in rush-hour traffic, dealing with bills, arguing with our spouse — all create stress. But it doesn’t have to be this way. As we engage our meditation practice, moving our focus more intently into the present with each subsequent…
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3 Hours Of Meditation Music
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to put on some meditation music to play in the background when you’re in the house, out on a drive – or on the bus to listen to on your headphones. I find this particular instrumental music piece called “Healing”, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), to be perfect for playing in the background when I…
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Living Simply Through The Present
Meditation offers the opportunity to see what it feels like to do just one thing at a time. Every day, our meditation session is like a beacon, a guiding light for the rest of our waking life. Through it, we might see just how distracted we are as we eat dinner: Bite,”how much more is…
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Guided Meditation, Blissful Deep Relaxation
This guided meditation is made by The Honest Guys, which have 179 videos at YouTube – with 40,661,161 views and 146,238 subscribers. In other words, meditation enthusiasts seem to love these guys. And so do we! This meditation for relaxation video, features a guided meditation designed to help you relax deeply. It has a background sounds of…
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Letting Go Of What We Think
Sometimes when we sit down to meditate, all types of things come up. Thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, plans, great ideas, urgent agenda items, and on and on…. The practice of meditation is first about making room for these thoughts and sensations to come up. By watching the breath, we cultivate a steadiness of mind that…
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Cutting Through The Tension
This past week was tough at times. Nearly every day there was at least one opportunity to release the tension creeping up into my shoulders and neck. When this happens, I’ll have a dull headache and even feel a bit of an energy drain. Using the breath, I was able to bring my focus to…
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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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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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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…