Are you feeling anxious? Can you imagine for a moment regaining your equilibrium? We’ll be talking about how to meditate for anxiety in this post and how that can be helpful. Let’s face, these are stressful times. A world pandemic. Millions still out...
Meditation fundamentally means pulling back from the world a bit and going inside to gain a larger perspective on our world. To disconnect a bit from the ego/mind part of our brains which is constantly chattering on about what’s going on in front of us and what...
Buddha said that “life is suffering”. And that one significant antidote to suffering is meditation. We’ll explore both of these ideas in today’s post to discover “How Does Meditation Help?” Buddha was acknowledging a very core fact about human existence. Life...
The answer to the question “What is Meditation?” is diverse and covers a lot of ground. The term “meditation” (much like the term “sports”) refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal...
“How does meditation work?” is a question I hear frequently asked by people who are not familiar with meditation’s many amazing benefits. Happily, sitdown and mindfulness meditation have been shown to greatly help humans with many of their mental,...
Meditation, sometimes called silent prayer, has many benefits: stress reduction, healing, peace of mind, a sense of well-being, love, joy, compassion, attracting people, circumstances and things, increasing creativity, being more productive, and reducing personal...
Lynne and I moved a mountain in 6 weeks. Now I understand the spiritual teaching of Jesus, “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is...
Meditation can help with many things. Stress relief, feeling sad, physical and mental healing, gaining a sense of well-being among them, as my book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation discusses in great detail. Much scientific research has been done on this topic...
What is meditation good for? Meditation has many benefits as my book on the subject makes clear. Dealing with sadness in these turbulent times is one of them. Here are 3 ways to cope with the sadness. 1. Allow yourself to feel sad 2. Meditate on your...
One of the questions I get is “How much meditation do I need to do before I gain a sense of peace”. And “How much longer will it take before I achieve Enlightenment?”. Two different and difficult questions because the answer is “It depends”. It depends on many...
