Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

come to on another inbreath. As much as possible, allow all the breathing to be through your nose. You don't have to do lying-do ...

are equally deserving of attention and of honoring as you discover them. A number of specialized meditative practices such as lo ...

harshness, volume, automaticity on the one hand, or softness, gentleness, sensitivity on the other - as well as its content. Eac ...

reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others. Since we lie down for so much of our lives, lying- down meditatio ...

times of the day. Do it in fields and meadows on occasion, under trees, in the rain, in the snow. Bring particular attention to ...

enter into this moment through a sudden opening in what we might call the body door. In hatha yoga practice, the idea is to be f ...

body or even aiming to improve your own. You are not judging how your body is doing. You are simply residing in stillness, withi ...

Not Practicing Is Practicing Sometimes I like to point out that not doing yoga is the same as doing yoga, although I hope people ...

TRY: Noticing the difference in how you feel and how you handle stress in periods when you are into the discipline of daily medi ...

Loving Kindness Meditation No man is an Island, entire of it self; Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; If ...

You may have noticed that you are not always a center of love and kindness, even toward yourself. In fact, in our society, one m ...

your own heart? You would have to do so over and over again, you know, just as you would bring your mind back to the breath over ...

your being, and a kindness you perhaps did not receive enough of as a child. Let yourself bask in this energy of loving kindness ...

You can also take the practice further. Having established a radiant center in your being, you can let loving kindness radiate o ...

purposefully direct loving kindness toward people you have a hard time with, toward those you dislike or are repulsed by, toward ...

and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging ...

toward others and out into the world. There is no limit to this practice, but as with any other practice, it deepens and grows w ...

Part 3- In the Spirit of Mindfulness All of us are apprenticed to the same teacher that the religious institutions originally wo ...

Sitting by Fire In the old days, once the sun went down, the only source of light people had, other than the changing moon and f ...

light up the world as brightly as we want and keep going with our lives, filling all our waking hours with busyness, with doing. ...