by Matthew Young | Last updated Mar 27, 2023 | Published on May 6, 2017 | Articles
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...
by Matthew Young | Last updated Dec 20, 2023 | Published on Apr 1, 2017 | Articles, Popular Posts
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...
by Matthew Young | Last updated Sep 4, 2018 | Published on Mar 22, 2017 | Articles, Guided Meditations
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...
by Matthew Young | Last updated Oct 15, 2021 | Published on Feb 28, 2017 | Articles
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...
by Matthew Young | Last updated Jun 30, 2021 | Published on Jan 30, 2017 | Articles
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...
by Matthew Young | Last updated Apr 14, 2023 | Published on Jan 5, 2017 | Articles, Popular Posts
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...
