Category: Meditation Practice and Benefits
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Due to the influences of our social environment people have forgotten the true essence of time. As far back as I can remember the concept of time was directly related to clock time or dates on a piece of paper called a calendar. In this human made understanding it appears that time is…
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I remember sitting on the floor in my 8×13 storage room that I had rented and converted into a bedroom/office in 2013. It had been 13 years since I had attempted to meditate. By meditation I mean sitting still and thinking about nothing. The main motivation for the attempt had nothing to do with believing…
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If you are able to sit still long enough in your meditative practice, clock time eventually dissolves. You smile as thoughts come to mind that try to drag your attention back to the clock. Their attempt to influence you to move from stillness has no effect. The real you has separated from your thought and…
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Take a moment. Close your eyes. Breathe deep. Hold it. Focus on your center. Hold it. Exhale. All of it. The last of it. Hold it. Focus on your center. Now breathe normally. Boom! You have just absorbed the gift of breath and it is pleased to propel you forward. You are no longer the…
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Meditation retreat weekend with meditation and yoga teacher Dada Veda. Learning about the 7 Chakra’s. Merging music and meditation. For more on meditation, music, and social vision, visit Dada Here.
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Throughout the past centuries hierarchical authorities have pushed ideologies that convinced us to be uncomfortable with ourselves; uncomfortable with where we were at in our life, uncomfortable with the way we look, uncomfortable being vulnerable at times, uncomfortable in sharing our mistakes, uncomfortable sharing our life promoting dreams, uncomfortable speaking out when you know somethings…
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Buddhist and meditation teacher Tara Brach leads a Vipassana meditation group at the River Road Unitarian Church in Bethesda. (Andrea Bruce Woodall /The Washington Post) Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness…
