2023-10-08 10:22
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This blog provides the means to reach greater happiness by using mindfulness based tools.
Mindfulness is science backed up form of meditation that has shown to be helpful in various of life's troubling conditions. Mindfulness can help us find the stability to cope with whatever life throws at us.
I will help you in finding just the appropriate technique to become more happy and resilient.
2023-02-18 15:27
This Guest post is by Ian Chew, the founder of Deeper Conversations. Despite his social anxiety, he’s had conversations with over 10,000 people, and he’s been featured by top med… Read More
2023-01-14 09:44
This post is written by Nevin DeCroo, a blogger and author on the topics of happiness and fulfillment. Nevin can be contacted through his website (nevindecroo.com), and further thoughts on m… Read More
2023-01-07 16:36
Mindfulness and meditation, these days, the two words are used interchangeably. And in the framework of an 8-week mindfulness course, it is ok to do so. However, in this article, I will dise… Read More
2022-12-23 16:32
In modern approaches to (western) meditation, several important factors have not been incorporated into the practice. One such example is the importance given to ethics in every meditation t… Read More
2022-11-18 10:10
This is a guest post from Michael Njunge. He is a practicing medical doctor. with a passion for health education. His blog is found at michaelnkw.com Many people already know about the vast… Read More
2022-09-05 11:17
This is a guest post from Dr. Amy Sarow, doctor in audiology. Overview: – What is Tinnitus? – Mind and Body Connection – Mindful Exercises for Tinnitus Relief What is Tinni… Read More
2022-08-22 13:57
Meditation has been proven to have many benefits, including sharpening focus, controlling stress response, and enhancing cognitive performance. It is also a proven way to change the brain, s… Read More
2022-01-31 16:31
This is a guest post by David Chorlton from Meaningful Paths. Let’s face it, 2020 and 2021 were two stressful years. The global pandemic, the financial concerns and thecombative politi… Read More
2021-12-15 15:00
This is a guest post by Vytautas Vaitkevicius from Minful Souls. During the Covid-19 pandemic, meditation and mindful practices have become a part of more people’s lives than usual. Ac… Read More
2021-10-11 17:35
We all know that meditation is a great and helpful practice that, if used properly and regularly enough, can lead to improved physical and mental health. Meditation and mindfulness exercises… Read More
2021-06-07 18:37
I was fortunate to be offered Jeffrey Allen’s course called ‘Duality’. Since this is a meditation course that tried to manipulate your own internal energy, a meditation sty… Read More
2021-04-26 14:15
I occasionally see meditation students start crying. It’s always a tough moment for me as it somehow makes me unsure whether I should continue the meditation or offer some advice on ho… Read More
2021-03-15 19:09
This is a guest post by Tiffany Fuller from illumiflow. If you have heard of meditation, then you have probably also heard about its many benefits. Meditation is a go-to for relieving s… Read More
2021-01-16 16:46
Most people associate meditation with a monk sitting with a straight back and with his eyes closed. In the most popular form of meditation in the west, MBSR, they ask you to close your eyes… Read More
2021-01-11 17:22
People often wonder whether it is best to use guided meditatio or rather go the unguided route. Both types of meditations have their own strengths. Unguided mediations are used mainly by beg… Read More
2020-12-28 11:01
When you do a little research on what advice people give to someone asking ‘Why don’t I see progress in my meditation’, you will almost always find a number of people sayin… Read More
2020-12-23 15:19
We all want to see the results of our efforts. However, the meditation instructions often include to not worry about the results. These two are reconciled by not thinking about results while… Read More
2020-12-21 16:38
So, you have read about the many benefits of meditation and you want to try it for yourself. A simple google search will reveal thousands of options. So where do you begin? The truth is that… Read More
2020-11-05 18:08
When you see all the images of monks and buddhas and gurus, one thing stands out, and that is that most of them are sitting cross-legged. So one might wonder if this is the only way to do me… Read More
2020-11-03 19:32
You are sitting in your meditation posture and the end of your dedicated meditation session nears. The sound of the gong marks the end of the session and then … yes, what then? The be… Read More
2020-11-02 17:59
Recently, I have started to fast regularly. And I wondered how it would affect my meditation practice. Turns out that there are a lot of variables (surprise 😉 ) that affect meditatio… Read More
2020-10-31 15:08
Mindfulness and meditative practices are becoming more mainstream across the world as people are recognizing the vast mental and physical health benefits associated with these exercises. In… Read More
2020-09-27 14:13
Flow, just like mindfulness has become a buzzword. Unfortunately, this also means that a lot of people have misconceptions about what the words exactly mean. Flow is a pleasant state of mind… Read More
2020-09-20 16:43
Mindfulness is not only a discipline for the intellect, it is also very much a discipline for the heart. And what speaks better to the heart than poetry, with its wordings that go beyond our… Read More
2020-09-14 14:53
Meditation comes in many forms and varieties. I myself practice at least 10 different styles depending on my needs. This proves that meditation is a versatile tool that can be adapted to man… Read More
2020-08-24 10:31
When you first start meditating, it might seem like there’s a lot to think about. Whether you’re doing it properly, spending enough time, or increasing your daily frequency, far… Read More
2020-08-21 12:48
When people think about meditation, they often picture a monk sitting cross-legged in the lotus position. But it does not have to be like that. Actually, the other positions in which you can… Read More
2020-07-04 13:43
This is a guest post by Maureen Scanlon, founder and CEO of Maureen Scanlon Life Coaching. Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “If I knew then, what I know now, things would be a lot… Read More
2020-06-29 10:04
The first real course on meditation that I ever took was an MBSR course. It was not a cheap one, so I hesitated for a long time. But I’m so happy that I did. I guess this is obvious si… Read More
2020-06-21 14:20
Many people doing meditation think they should feel or experience something special when doing meditation. I sure did for a very long time. I found out that there is indeed something to expe… Read More
2020-06-21 07:50
One of the things that people starting a meditation practice struggle with a lot is how they can know if they are doing it correctly. It is one of the main concerns of the people participati… Read More
2020-06-20 14:46
When doing a simple online search for meditation, you quickly find that there are many dozens of different meditation styles available. So how do you chose which type of meditation you shoul… Read More
2020-06-15 17:00
It not easy for everybody to have access to a qualified meditation teacher. Especially not if you live in a remote area. So the question arises whether it is a good idea to learn meditation… Read More
2020-06-08 17:16
Many people are stuck in a past that was hurtful or wonderful. But just the same, they come back to it time and again without ever moving on. Dwelling on the past means to revisit the same e… Read More
2020-06-01 17:16
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2020-05-31 16:24
Having myself a PhD in physics and hearing what many people have to say about quantum mechanics, I am the last person to doubt the great importance of expertise. But, as we will see, beginne… Read More
2020-05-27 20:08
There are a lot of definitions of what mindfulness exactly is out there. But the most widespread is the definition given by Jon Kabat-Zinn. His definition is as follows: Mindfulness is aware… Read More
2020-05-25 18:33
I often have the feeling that I want to deepen my mindfulness and meditation practice but I do not have the time or money to go on a longer retreat. Therefore, I try to occasionally have one… Read More
2020-05-24 17:19
There is a lot of confusion between many terms used in the mindfulness community. There is the tendency to mix western and eastern terminology like mindfulness and vipassana. Originally, min… Read More
2020-05-24 10:08
When you end up on this page, chances are that you are looking to follow an online mindfulness or meditation course. And you have come to the right place for that! But before you start, mayb… Read More
2020-05-24 10:08
Tis post was last updated and checked for accuracy on January 17th, 2021. When you end up on this page, chances are that you are looking to follow an online mindfulness or meditation course… Read More
2020-04-27 18:06
As you will see with practice, in the meditative domain, the best way to achieve your own goals is to back off from striving for results and instead to start focusing carefully on seeing and… Read More
2020-04-20 16:59
The 3 minute breathing space is by far the most popular exercise from within MBCT. This small 3 minutes meditation forms the bridge between the formal meditations and applying the learned te… Read More
2020-04-18 17:45
Acceptance is one of the core attitudes of mindfulness meditation. But, like any other skill, it needs to be practiced. This post will give you the necessary exercises and tools to perfect t… Read More
2020-04-12 13:57
Have you tried metta (loving kindness), but it made you feel awkward or phony? You said the phrases but they did not resonate with you. This post is about how to craft your metta meditation… Read More
2020-04-11 06:12
This is a guest post by Amardeep Sudadar from Re-Reality. In order to understand how meditation can be beneficial for overcoming depression and anxiety, we must first look at the two conditi… Read More
2020-04-04 17:52
No matter how long you have been practicing mindfulness or meditation, we all have periods where we feel stuck. Where we would like to concentrate deeper, or have less mind wandering. Here a… Read More
2020-03-23 19:20
Beginners often have a number of common difficulties when starting our with mindfulness. Luckily, a great number of solutions exists. This posts gives you the most important ones. I cannot m… Read More
2019-10-14 11:57
This article is a guest post by Christopher Walkling. I expect I may encounter some difficulty, dear Reader, in convincing you of the relationship between Mindfulness and Mixed Martial Arts… Read More
2019-10-05 09:52
We have all been told we need to meditate for 20 to 50 minutes a day. But many of us do not have this time to spare. So what if we can incorporate our practice into something we really like?… Read More
2019-10-01 14:14
The answer to the 1 million-dollar question, should you be doing meditation before going to sleep, can be answered with an emphatic yes! Not only do you get the regular benefits of meditatio… Read More
2019-09-08 14:32
The short answer is: no, mindfulness is not dangerous if practiced as prescribed. Much to the contrary, mindfulness is associated to a lot physical and mental health benefits. However, a rec… Read More
2019-03-17 10:49
In 1979 Jon Kabat Zinn developed an eight week program to help terminally ill people to reduce their stress and anxiety. This program is now widely known as MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Re… Read More
2019-03-15 18:31
Sometimes our heads are not a good place to be. It can feel overwhelming when thoughts start to race and emotions are flaring up. Furthermore, most of us have been educated in such a way tha… Read More
2019-03-02 20:00
In their essence MBSR, MBCT and ACT are psychological interventions that have at their core the practice of mindfulness, an accepting way of relating to whatever is happening in the present… Read More
2019-02-25 17:25
Very few exercises in the modern mindfulness tradition are so difficult for skeptics to get into. Simple breathing meditation combined with psychological hacks are one thing to try in our mi… Read More
2019-02-22 18:30
In the first part of this two part article series, I discussed the wide variety of practices that are available in the modern mindfulness tradition. I focus deeper on the diversity of formal… Read More
2019-02-10 15:46
This post is the first in a series that details the full bandwidth of mindfulness meditation practices. In this first part, I cover the different kind of practices that exist and I will go i… Read More
2019-02-02 16:43
“When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, sham… Read More
2019-01-28 10:15
I am often asked how I can bear to witness this kind of pain regularly. My answer is simple: I get to see the pain of loss change people in miraculously positive ways. Over and over again I… Read More
2019-01-27 15:45
Don’t fall asleep
In this article, you will learn all about the infamous body scan meditation. Why do I say ‘infamous’? Because my experience in doing this meditation my… Read More
2019-01-14 17:43
If you came looking in this article for the ins and outs of the raisin meditation plus a free guided meditation, you came to the right place.
But first let me tell you what the raisin me… Read More
2019-01-09 19:09
What
is mindfulness?
One
of the questions I get asked a lot, is ‘what exactly is mindfulness
meditation?’. The easy answer to this that mindfulness meditation
is a set of prac… Read More
2019-01-06 11:21
Remember the last time you got ill? Your muscles might have felt sour, your might have had an annoying running nose, or, the most dreadful of all for me, you might have felt nauseous. So, th… Read More
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