Mindful Parenting: What Meditation Can Teach Us About Raising Kids
Parenting is a job that requires on-the-job training with the potential for life and death consequences if we make a mistake. Because there’s no way to prepare before becoming a parent, it can be the most stressful thing we ever do. Luckily, there are things we can do to reduce our stress, such as meditation. […]
Read More →9 Reasons to Start Meditating Today
If you’ve been meaning to start a meditation practice but keep putting it off, this article is for you. It’s time to stop putting it off and start putting it into practice. Here are nine reasons to start meditating today. It will help you sleep Meditation reduces stress, calms a racing mind, and relaxes the […]
Read More →Secrets to Quieting the Wandering Mind
We all know how it feels: we’re trying to concentrate on something and our mind just keeps drifting away to something else — or a dozen other things. We drag it back to the task at hand, only for it to wander away again. It makes what we’re trying to do feel like drudgery, and that’s only […]
Read More →10 Tips To Make Meditation a Daily Habit
Just because we know that daily meditation is good for us doesn’t mean we’ll be any better about actually doing it. We know that working out regularly and eating healthy is good for our bodies, but we don’t always follow through on those, either. But just like a regular workout or a healthy diet, there […]
Read More →5 Benefits of Meditation That Can Help You Better Guide Your Life From Within
There’s a lot of talk about the varied benefits of meditation. Sometimes the benefits are so many that it’s difficult to get specifics on any of them or how to make the most of them. Today, let’s talk about five specific benefits that can help you guide your life from within. Guiding your life from […]
Read More →How to Meditate Even When You’re Feeling Fidgety or Stiff
Two common complaints for not meditating are not being able to sit still or being too stiff. These are certainly understandable frustrations, but they don’t have to mean the end of your meditation practice. There are several things you can do to ease both being fidgety and feeling stiff so that you can more easily […]
Read More →Meditation Primer: 6 Styles of Meditation
We talk about meditation as if it’s just one simple thing. It’s not. There are a number of ways to meditate. Each has benefits, and most people find that some kinds work better than others. This primer will introduce you to six styles of meditation. We’ll go over a brief description of the benefits, how […]
Read More →8 Ways to Enhance Your Meditation Practice
Meditation has tons of benefits but sometimes it can feel like you’re not seeing them. It’s pretty easy to feel like you’re not getting anywhere with your practice. So try the following ways to enhance your practice and see if you get anything more from it. Be consistent Life is full of responsibilities and sometimes […]
Read More →Why Focus On the Breath?
In most meditations, you begin with a focus on the breath. It might be simply paying attention to the breath or it might be about taking deep breaths. It might be another variation, but I’d guess probably 95% of meditations begin with focusing on your breath. Is there a reason for that? There is. Among […]
Read More →Meditation For Real Life
As nice as the thought is, we can’t all head off to a meditation retreat on a beautiful California beach or in a quiet pine forest. And when we’re in the thick of raising kids, working full time (whether for ourselves or someone else), maintaining a romantic relationship, and trying to keep up something that […]
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