Zen and the Art of Meditation Alarm Clocks
Let the Meditation Timer Do the Work so You Don't Have To!
One of the most difficult tasks for a beginner meditation student is to simply SIT. For someone just starting out 5 minutes can seem like an eternity! I remember constant "quick peeks" at the nearby clock to see if I had reached my time target. Unfortunately, this distracts from the point of the meditation practice which is to sit with a still, calm mind, or focusing on a given object (but not your clock!). Every time one thinks "Has it been 5 minutes?" he or she is being pulled away from the...

Learning To Meditate
28-Day Meditation Challenge!
I have joined the 28 day meditation challenge conducted by a dear friend , Spiritual guide and mentor Janice Lynne Lundy at her blog- Awake is Good Quoting Jan-"For in the new year, I really do want to get to know myself better, be happier, more peace-filled, and when I take time for meditation I am. I am also more calm, clear, and wise, and who doesn't want more of that?" Jan is an inspiring author who blogs to connect with kindred spirits who desire to live in an awakened manner-with clea...

Meditation - how to ground yourself
Feel more focused, present, calm and peaceful
Whilst grounding yourself is the basis for any meditation, it is something you can and should do every day. Once you have the routine down pat, you can literally ground yourself in a few minutes. Essentially, grounding energetically connects you to the earth. Just like an electric plug that needs to be grounded, when we connect to the energy of the earth, we are able to release stress, tension and any negative emotions and absorb healing energy. So, if you are living in your head, stressed,...

Know The Benefits Of Meditation
Why Meditate?Get To Know The Benefits Of Meditation
Why Meditate? and what are the benefits of meditating? This is the question that runs in your mind when you participate in a meditation challenge and that is your motivation to meditate. I was fortunate to participate in a 28 day meditation challenge at the blog Awake is Good which answered to many questions about meditation and I am happy to share what I learnt with all. "Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life,...

Meditation 101
Meditation For Everyone
There are many forms of meditation and they all provide similar benefits for achieving health and a clear mind.Try a few different methods and see which one you like. I practice more than one form with T'ai Chi being my favorite by far followed by QiGong

Awareness is Everything
Awareness - What is it? Aren't we already aware? How can we become more aware?
While at a workshop led by neuroscientist, Dr. Dan Siegel, he used the term "awareness is everything." To me, this meant that awareness, or the process of being aware, is foundational for a life of meaning. This particular word struck me because my favorite quote is "The meaning of life is to see." On this page, we will explore this one aspect of reality, being aware. You may be asking yourself why this is a big deal. We are all aware, aren't we? Can becoming more aware improve our lives? W...

Smadhi-Meditation
Smadhi or Meditation from Thai Buddha, nothing is forever except change because we believe to well done good and ware Amulet for protect you from the bad thing. We go to the Temple for meditation.(We call Smadhi) Maditation is a Hindu and Buddhist technical term that usually denotes higher levels of concentrated meditation, or dhyana, in Yogic schools. In Hinduism, it is the eighth and final limb of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. It has been described as a non-dualistic state of consciousness ...

Beginners Meditation
Beginners Meditation Journey
It is week-2 of our Beginners Meditation Journey . Jan is an inspiring author who blogs to connect with kindred spirits who desire to live in an awakened manner-with clear, open minds and wise, compassionate hearts.She invited in her blog to join an exploration of meditation for 28 days where we get to know of various methods of meditations.The response is fantastic with more than 100 bloggers uniting to read and share their meditation experiences. This lens shares the great messages learnt...

The Song Of The Healing Crystal Bowls
Have You Ever Thought About A Body Tune-up?
Our cars need tune-ups once in awhile. So do our bodies. In the ancient lands of Atlantis and Egypt, healers traveled door to door with 'healing' crystal bowls tuned to the note of F# for the high heart. The high heart is the one heart that connects all hearts to the one, to spirit, to God. The ancients believed that the way to facilitate healing was opening the high heart. Today we refer to this as the Thymus Gland, the center for your immunity system. By opening, clearing and re-balancing...

Mindfullness Bell
The Bell The Voice of Our Spiritual Ancestors
Listening to Thich Nhat Hanh one gradually attunes to the meditation bell which is much a part of his practice path. The mindfulness bell is the voice of our spiritual ancestors, he instructs: "Its sounds call us back to our true home in the present moment--to emptiness. When we inter-are, we find peace, stability, freedom--the root of our happiness. With non-self we discover the nature of emptiness." *inter-are "So, for example, we 'inter-are' with a tree: if it is not there, we are not the...