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Mindfulness Meditation

3 Simple Ways To Be More Mindful At Work

Eden Kozlowski | Posted 05.23.2013 | Healthy Living
Eden Kozlowski

A company is only as healthy as its employees. Mindfulness creates healthier and happier workers, healthier and happier people. As I state in my seminars, mindfulness at work isn't just a work skill or a life skill -- it is a new way of existing.

How I Teach Basic Meditation to Novices

Ira Israel | Posted 05.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Ira Israel

We just carve out a few minutes of our day to take long, deep, fluid inhalations and long, deep, fluid exhalations -- taking our bodies out of "fight or flight" mode -- and if we notice thoughts arising to consciousness we simply guide our attention back to our breaths. This is basic meditation.

3 Things That Make Mindfulness Extremely Difficult

Ira Israel | Posted 05.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Ira Israel

Instructing somebody to meditate -- to release or dis-identify with his or her thoughts -- is like trying to instruct somebody to instantly sneeze, or like telling someone just not to think, when the mind but built to do little else but that.

Turn These5 Things You Do Every Day Into Meditation

Cindy Griffith-Bennett | Posted 05.18.2013 | Healthy Living
Cindy Griffith-Bennett

By turning everyday activities into meditation moments, you can bring more mindfulness, clarity, and peace into your day while energizing yourself and reducing stress. Here are five opportunities to add meditation to your day without taking time out of your hectic schedule.

WhyMindfulness Is Just So Good For Your Brain

Kripalu | Posted 05.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Kripalu

Mindfulness, something once practiced only in more closeted meditation circles, has recently become a greater mainstream interest. Perhaps for this reason, research on mindfulness meditation has increased considerably over the last decade.

6 Reasons Why Everyone in Corporate America Should Meditate

Robert Piper | Posted 05.14.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert Piper

Meditation is the new American pushup for the brain; it's a tool that helps us check in with ourselves throughout the day. It's a practice that should be embraced by all American corporations as a way to stay calm, focused, and productive through the day.

The Soul of Mindfulness: 7 Tips for Groovin' With Your Practice

Melanie Harth, Ph.D., LMHC | Posted 05.08.2013 | Healthy Living
Melanie Harth, Ph.D., LMHC

The benefits of mindfulness aren't all ponderous and weighty and Buddhist monk-y feeling things. It sweetens our moments, our days, our lives. Gosh, what if we lived more in soulful attunement to the exquisite preciousness of life as it presents itself moment by moment?

Mindfulness and Nature's Purposeful Pause

Janice L. Marturano | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business
Janice L. Marturano

We should always remember to find pauses in our own lives. Those moments that allow us to renew ourselves so we can live the life we choose to live.

Can Christians Practice Mindfulness?

Eden Kozlowski | Posted 05.07.2013 | Healthy Living
Eden Kozlowski

Mindfulness allows everyone to bask in his or her own faith, belief and wishes -- it opens the door to acceptance. It allows us to see our humanity and the bigger picture things that connects us beyond our titles, beyond our outward appearance, beyond our philosophies and dogmas.

What Is Non-Judgmental Awareness, Anyway?

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 05.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.

The key here is to bring awareness and intentionality to the moments of our lives. Be aware when the brain is automatically judging a situation or a person, and we can pause and get some perspective.

How to 'Be' in the Moment

Ora Nadrich | Posted 05.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Ora Nadrich

When we meditate, we try to connect to that inner peace and serenity that transcends thought. For me, it's a type of stillness that feels like I am completely connected to timelessness, and that there is no beginning or end, it just "is." But why does that feeling have to be so temporary or elusive?

10 Reasons Why You Really Need To Start Meditating

Robert Piper | Posted 05.05.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert Piper

Cheers to America's new push-up for the brain! With all the scientific evidence coming in over the years, meditation is now becoming a practice that anyone from any walk of life can embrace.

Why Seeking Meaning Instead of Pleasure Makes You Happier

Matt Tenney | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Matt Tenney

My greatest failure ended up becoming the best thing that ever happened to me. About one year into my time in the brig, I started learning about mindfulness meditation and immediately noticed an increase in happiness.

Recalculating: You Don't Have to Believe Your Thoughts

Tara Bennett Goleman | Posted 04.25.2013 | Healthy Living
Tara Bennett Goleman

Our self-defeating emotional habits distort reality. Mindful discernment helps us distinguish between how things seem -- the 'horse' -- and how they are -- the moose.

But I Don't Have Time to Meditate

Mary Pritchard | Posted 04.24.2013 | Healthy Living
Mary Pritchard

You've got to make time for yourself -- preferably every day -- to do something that refreshes you, centers you, and keeps you grounded. For me that something is meditation. It might be something else for you.

Mind Whispering: Modes and Mind Whispering

Tara Bennett Goleman | Posted 04.24.2013 | Healthy Living
Tara Bennett Goleman

I sometimes see the world as one big dysfunctional family. At the collective level we can see the Us and Them dynamic at work -- unless we make the choice to join at the heart and emphasize the ways we are connected rather than the ways we are separate, revealing the natural principle of interconnectedness.

Mindful in May: Pause for a Cause

Dr. Elise Bialylew | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
Dr. Elise Bialylew

There is a rapid growth of scientific research, revealing what the Buddhist monks have known for generations but couldn't measure with machines: Meditation is a powerful tool for enhanced well-being and mental focus.

Mind Whispering: The Mind's Overseer and Mindful Habit Change

Tara Bennett Goleman | Posted 04.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Tara Bennett Goleman

Mind whispering integrates mindfulness with habit change, which adds the strength of awareness to the mechanics of shifting our modes of being for the better.

America's New Workout for the Brain

Robert Piper | Posted 04.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert Piper

I think the millions of Americans who exercise should be meditating before and after they jump on the treadmill. Why is this not possible? They adopted an iPod into their workout.

5 Tips For Creating A Sacred Space

Debbie Woodbury | Posted 04.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Debbie Woodbury

Take a few minutes to bring peacefulness and healing into your home by creating sacred space. It's not hard to do and has immense rewards. If you already have a sacred space, I'd love to hear about it. If I've inspired you to create one, I'd love to know how you made it meaningful to you.

How To Teach Yourself To Relax

meQuilibrium | Posted 04.23.2013 | Healthy Living
meQuilibrium

You think if you stress would loosen its chokehold on you, then you could relax. But you have it backwards: If you learned to relax, then stress would recede. That's because relaxing is a practice, and like a muscle, and you need to use it -- or lose it.

Glad It Was a Bell and Not a Bomb

Eden Kozlowski | Posted 04.18.2013 | Healthy Living
Eden Kozlowski

My call to you, please think about encouraging mindfulness or simple techniques of awareness in your town, in your schools, in your community.

BUSTED: 6 Common Mindfulness Myths

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.12.2013 | Healthy Living

As yoga studios and meditation centers pop up on nearly every city block and mindfulness practices make their way into some of the biggest corporation...

An Open, Spacious Awareness For An Open, Spacious Life

Larry Yang | Posted 04.11.2013 | Religion
Larry Yang

Whether it is the internal or external sense of being "maxed out," what is often helpful is to seek a larger landscape in which to hold one's experience. This is not only a skillful means of coping with difficulty, but it is also an aspect of mindfulness and awareness.

20 Reasons To Love Mindfulness (According To Science)

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 04.08.2013 | Healthy Living

Oh mindfulness meditation, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. Even though the academic research on mindfulness meditation isn't as robust...