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Why I Meditate
Sebene Selassie
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May 11, 2024
I don’t know what I’d do without a meditation practice. These days, after many years, it’s a regular habit. But it wasn’t always that way. For years I tried to cultivate a regular practice, but I found it hard to stick to a routine. It was easier to hit snooze, or get up off my cushion before the timer went off, or skip the weekly gathering at the Zendo.But I had an incentive: I was a hot mess.
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May
Why I Meditate
Change Your Posture, Change Your Mood
Joseph Wielgosz
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May 3, 2024
According to neuroscientific research, you can change your mood simply by changing your body posture.Of course, everyone knows that body posture can reflect our emotions. Picture an Olympic sprinter crossing the finish line with their arms in the air, and head thrown back in celebration. Or picture the audience in a horror movie, instinctively cringing and curling up when something goes bump in the night. But can it also work the other way? Can body posture influence our emotional state, as well as reflect it?
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May
Change Your Posture, Change Your Mood
World Meditation Week: 7 Days of Practical Meditation
Ten Percent Happier
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May 1, 2024
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May
World Meditation Week: 7 Days of Practical Meditation
Everything You Wanted to Know about Meditation Retreats
Ten Percent Happier
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April 5, 2024
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April
Everything You Wanted to Know about Meditation Retreats
How to be Compassionate
Rasmus Hougaard
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March 29, 2024
Meditation teachers often talk about the value of compassion. But how do you actually develop it? Here, mindful leadership expert Rasmus Hougaard offers a four-step process for doing so.
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March
How to be Compassionate
Defending Against ‘Predatory Listening’
Oren Jay Sofer
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March 21, 2024
It felt like stepping on the wrong end of a rake.My relative had asked for my opinion, but when I gave it, he launched into what sounded like a well-rehearsed argument, taking issue with each thing I had said and critiquing my character. I felt like I’d walked into a trap.
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March
Defending Against ‘Predatory Listening’
An Introduction to Walking Meditation
Jay Michaelson
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March 15, 2024
When meditation is depicted visually, it’s almost always in a picture of someone sitting down, usually with eyes closed. And, it’s true, sitting and paying attention to your breath is probably the most common form of meditation today.But sitting has a serious downside: it takes time and space to do it. Whether you’re devoting five minutes or forty-five minutes to meditation, that’s time you’ve got to carve out of your day.
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March
An Introduction to Walking Meditation
May I Meet This, Too, With Kindness
Amanda Gilbert
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March 2, 2024
Author and meditation teacher Amanda Gilbert shares a simple phrase to help you meet every thought, every moment, and every person with kindness.
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March
May I Meet This, Too, With Kindness
Sacred Rest
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
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February 23, 2024
Experiencing peace need not be an arduous journey of endless work, but rather a moment-by-moment effort of resting.
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February
Sacred Rest
Caring for Trauma with Compassion
Dr.Susan Pollak
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February 16, 2024
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February
Caring for Trauma with Compassion
Get Your Hopes Up
Yael Shy
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February 9, 2024
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January
Get Your Hopes Up
Lessons from a Year of Solitude
Cara Lai
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February 2, 2024
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January
Lessons from a Year of Solitude
What to Do When Your Mind Wanders
Cory Muscara
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January 26, 2024
If you’ve ever meditated, you may have noticed that your mind likes to wander. In fact, many people who subscribe to this very newsletter tell us that they can’t meditate because their mind is always wandering.But this is a myth! And if it’s keeping you from meditation, please read on.
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January
What to Do When Your Mind Wanders
Meditation in Troubled Times
Norman Fischer
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January 19, 2024
There’s an old Zen saying: “The world is topsy-turvy.” Who is not aware of this today? The state of the world is painful to everyone. The world careens onward in its topsy-turvy course, causing a pervasive sense of inward dread many of us can’t afford to entertain.
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January
Meditation in Troubled Times
4 Questions to Diffuse the Inner Critic
La Sarmiento
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January 12, 2024
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January
4 Questions to Diffuse the Inner Critic
Opening to the Fullness of Life
Ten Percent Happier
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January 7, 2024
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January
Opening to the Fullness of Life