THE MINDFULNESS DIARIES:How I survived my first nine-day silent meditation retreat Jennifer Howd [Howd Media, 136 pages] When you ask...
“The more we try to control things,” writes mindfulness teacher Michael Stone, “the more disorder is created.” Before I meditated,...
Screen reader version: The human brain is a marvelous thing. It helps us learn and adapt. Central to these abilities...
Snow on Pine Clouds pass the sun warms snow clumps fall off branches spring back powder disappears into water pearls...
You find your days running into one another as you wander through your life on automatic pilot. Coffee is your...
Mid-August marked the public release of innovative multimedia artist Brice Salek’s latest project, “Avant-Garde Meditations,” The project consists of eight...
Mass. General-led study shows changes over time in areas associated with awareness, empathy, stress Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation...
Here’s the second part of the Meditation Tips series, it’s the second and third methods of meditating that have helped...
Recently I’ve had a number of requests for tips on meditation techniques, so I’m going to take a shot at...
The Pali word “metta” is commonly translated in English as “loving-kindness.” Metta signifies friendship and nonviolence as well as a...
My four-year-old daughter was having temper tantrums daily before we began a guided meditation practice. Now, rather than losing it,...
In times of stress, we’re often encouraged to pause for a moment and simply be in the now. This kind...
I’ve questioned Christianity all my life, but the ship didn’t start sinking until a few years back when I wrote...
One of the most common responses I get to my book, a memoir about the time I spent living and...
Mindfulness—the practice of cultivating awareness and acceptance, free of judgment—has always been inherent in the teaching and practice of yoga....
May 2, 2013 marks the premiere of Free the Mind, a documentary about the use of mindfulness and meditation to...
Qigong, also known as Ch’i kung or Ch’i gong, is an ancient Chinese discipline that involves the mind, breath and...
Who am I? Not only have I heard this question many times from clients and students, there was a time...
Empaths are highly sensitive, finely tuned instruments when it comes to emotions. They feel everything, sometimes to an extreme, and...
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ? Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need...
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not...
Science points to a hyperactive response in the amygdala as the heart of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)…but...
After meditating or going out on a long walk, I often sit with a poem and allow the words to seep into the heart of my present moment experience. The theme of the piece could be centered...
In the classic cross-country technique the athlete employs a diagonal stride. Both skis stay parallel to one another. This motion...
