Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

Part 1 - The Bloom of the Present Moment Only that day dawns to which we are awake. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden) What Is Mindfu ...

helps us wake up from this sleep of automaticity and unconsciousness, thereby making it possible for us to live our lives with a ...

applications. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. Th ...

fundamentally, our relationship with ourself as a person. The key to this path, which lies at the root of Buddhism, Taoism, and ...

When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and pr ...

nurturing. Another way to think of it would be "heartfulness." A student once said: "When I was a Buddhist, it drove my parents ...

clearly, and therefore come to understand more deeply, areas in our lives that we were out of touch with or unwilling to look at ...

our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to go and may not even realize we are headed for. Meditation means learning ...

Stopping People think of meditation as some kind of special activity, but this is not exactly correct. Meditation is simplicity ...

has ever died. So you don't need to worry about it in any absolute way. If this is true, maybe you don't need to make one more p ...

exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells y ...

But it would not quite be accurate to call meditation a "doing." It is more accurately described as a "being." When we understan ...

to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we ar ...

a very real way, this may actually be the best season, the best moment of your life? If that was so, what would it mean for you? ...

simple ... checking in from moment to moment, sustaining awareness across a stretch of timeless moments, being here, now. TRY: A ...

that moments and breathing might be connected in an interesting way. To use your breathing to nurture mindfulness, just tune in ...

when the mind wanders, stringing moments of mindfulness together, breath by breath. Try it every once in a while as you read thi ...

Practice Does Not Mean Rehearsal We use the word "practice" to describe the cultivation of mindfulness, but it is not meant in t ...

Realizations and insights, profound experiences of stillness and joy, do come. But it would be incorrect to say that we are prac ...

and what we call non-doing, and then tune in to your breathing. All of Walden Pond is within your breath. The miracle of the cha ...