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Meditation For A Tired Body & Mind

A meditation for when you are feeling lazy, tired, frazzled or worn out. (Also a good way to fall asleep). With thanks to Liu Ponomarew who came up with the original idea during Meditation Teacher Training.
How to make friends with your emotions

How to make friends with your emotions

Do you love your emotions? Do you look forward to days on which a depression visits? Do you eagerly await the arrival of anxiety? And do you enjoy moments of anger, jealousy or shame? Perhaps these questions strike you as absurd? Who on Earth looks forward to feeling...
How to meditate better by thinking more

How to meditate better by thinking more

assumptionnoun1. a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. You probably came to meditation with a lot of assumptions. And even if you’ve been meditating for years, you probably still have a lot of assumptions — about what...

Pause

Feeling stressed? Here’s a two-minute guided meditation you can use to take the edge off a trying situation or anxious moment. Need more time to relax? Or a guided meditation to help you get to sleep, or to work through some troubling issue or emotion? I have...
How to Develop & Sustain a Meditation Practice

How to Develop & Sustain a Meditation Practice

Meditation is easy. It’s easy to learn and it’s easy to do. At least, it can be, if you have an understanding and approach conducive to mitigating struggle. Remembering to meditate, or doing it regularly, however, seems much, much harder. It’s a bit...
How Much Meditation Is Enough?

How Much Meditation Is Enough?

At the first meditation class I attended I was instructed to sit still for 30 minutes. That seemed like a long time to me. However, that was nothing compared to what was expected on the first retreat I attended. There, the shortest meditation was 60 minutes long and...
The 5 Best Books on Meditation & Mindfulness

The 5 Best Books on Meditation & Mindfulness

I’ve read hundreds of books on meditation and mindfulness. Most of them were good but half a dozen have really stood out from the rest. These are the books I keep coming back to, re-reading and learning from. Note: The links below take you to fishpond.com.au or...

Kiss the joy as it flies

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise. — William Blake This article is a reproduction of the afterword from Bill Morgan’s insightful book, The Meditator’s...

Meditation & Mindfulness Facts

Here’s a collection of facts about meditation and mindfulness. They include helpful tips for beginners, surprising ‘secrets’, as well as findings revealed by recent research. Follow us on Facebook to view...