Meditation
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5 Celebrity Meditation Techniques That Can Help You Reshape Your Life
A lot of people never try meditation because they’re worried they’ll do it wrong. But like making a cup of coffee or cooking a steak, there are actually a lot of different ways to successfully achieve the mindful, spiritual centeredness that meditation can bring.That’s why the best meditation apps, ...
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Kick Your Stress to The Curb With This Cutting-Edge Meditation App
If you’re like most hard-working Americans, anxiety is bringing you down. It can be a distracting, painful, life-disrupting nuisance. After a certain point, you probably feel like you’ve tried everything, and have resigned yourself to a life of feeling vaguely uneasy about every one of your responsi...
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What is the Meaning of Life? An Exploratory Guide
Most of us wonder at the meaning of it all now and again, but fewer of us dare speak the question aloud for fear of sounding ridiculous: “What is the meaning of life?” Without an answer to what seems the most pertinent question imaginable, how do human beings know what’s important, or where our focu...
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6 Ways Mindfulness Techniques Can Improve Your Life
Mindfulness techniques are mainly used to alleviate symptoms of mental illness, but they have many other uses as well. Even if you don't suffer from mental health issues, skills such as meditation, deep breathing and taking a non-judgmental stance can greatly enhance your life. Below are 6 ways mind...
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10 Things I Learned from 1,000 Hours of Meditation
When I first heard about meditation in 2011, I wasn’t sure it was for me. I was an MBA student and entrepreneur after all, not a Buddhist monk! That all changed when I watched this video of Jon Kabat-Zinn talking at Google. I figured if meditation was good enough for Google employees, it was worth a...
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5-Step Nightly Ritual to Recharge and Maximize the Quality of Your Sleep
For years, I rose before the sun came up to meditate. I thought I was clever with my wholesome habits (and it did help, a lot, but…). Never did I think to work on the other half of the equation. Eight years ago I began rising early. Being a night owl my entire life up until then, it was a big change...
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The Best Meditation: 7 Tips for Improving the Quality of Your Sleep
It took me years before I realized the value of sleep. Growing up I was a night owl and would consistently go to sleep at 2:00am only to wake up four to five hours later and get on with my day -- and I know I wasn’t the only one. The thing is, unless you pay close attention over a long period of tim...
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5 Tips for Starting Off Right in Your Meditation Practice
When I first started my own meditation practice, I felt absolutely, completely, and utterly… ...dumbfounded. Perhaps it would have been better starting a meditation practice before the advent of the Internet. However, nowadays? There’s literally mountains of text, audio, and video content you could ...
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How to Meditate: Guided Meditation for Beginners
Around 15 years ago, I bought myself a copy of Meditation for Dummies. I’d always been interested in starting some form of basic mindfulness meditation, but couldn’t build momentum. Was it as simple as closing your eyes, taking a few deep breaths, and daydreaming, existing in the present moment? To ...
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4 Tips for Using Writing as Meditation I Learned from "Writing Down the Bones"
Nowadays, it’s impossible to talk about mental health or even self-improvement without mentioning meditation in the same breath.But I’ve taught meditation for a while now and I can say from experience that one practice that is an ideal fit for one person might not be great for another.Everyone is di...
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Sensory Deprivation Tank: What Are the Benefits of 'Floating'?
Floating in a sensory deprivation tank may seem to some people like the stuff of futuristic science fiction – and admittedly, it does seem an out-of-this world experience, this floating in body-temperature, highly salinized water in a darkened, silent space – but it actually has real, scientifically...
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150 Meaningful Spiritual Quotes About Love, Life and Healing
Spirituality is a verywide concept, but it generally involves searching for the meaning of life andtrying to connect with something bigger than ourselves.We are in a constantquest for success and happiness and we often neglect our spiritual side.Spirituality is a universal human experience and it’s ...
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How to Make Meditation a Daily Habit in Just 60 Seconds a Day
Years ago, meditation transformed my anxiety. What was once an unshakeable sense of panic had become calm and reflective like a lake with still water. As nice as this story is, in retrospect, I often leave out what seems like a small detail: I had a very hard time making meditation a daily habit. An...
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The Voice of Stillness: Meditation and the Journey to the Self
Meditation is perhaps one of the few things that can be equally agonizing and enriching. Sitting still for ten (or more) minutes as an observer of your thoughts, inhaling and exhaling, forces you to go through an experience -- not to reject it, deny it, suppress it, or put it off. This experience is...
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7 Benefits of Meditating Every Day
Did you know that some of the top executives in the world meditate? These people are not doing it for religious reasons. More and more people who reach the top are taking advantage of the benefits of meditation. It makes them more productive and allows them to better reach for their goals. There are...
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Unleash Your Mind's Potential With the Power of Meditation
In these accelerated times where it feels like faster is never fast enough, carving out a few moments of peace to catch our breath and reconnect with ourselves can seem like a gargantuan struggle. But as more and more Westerners come to realize the negative impacts of stress and overwork on their pe...
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The Healing Power of Meditation for Brain Health
Meditation is an ancient practice. Though once linked mostly to religious traditions, more and more non-religious people are today taking up the practice for the many benefits it provides the mind and body, including the strengthening of a person's mental abilities and capacity for long-term happine...
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The 4-Step Guide to How to Meditate
We hear a lot these days about the incredible benefits that a dedicated meditation practice can have on our brain health, mental and physical abilities, creativity, and overall happiness and well-being. But how do you meditate?It can seem like a silly question -- just sit down and breathe, right? Th...
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7 Mindfulness Tips to Help You Live in the Present
You’re sitting at the beach with your toes in the sand and your gaze at the crashing waves. You should feel relaxed, but your mind is racing uncontrollably. Did you turn off the oven? What are you going to make for dinner? Oh, no! You forgot to send that important work email. The thoughts flood in f...
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How to Calm the Chaos of Everyday Life with Mindfulness Meditation
Eight years ago, I suffered a panic attack.At the time, I didn’t know exactly what had happened to me. For months I had been stressing about the forthcoming birth of my son. While I was looking forward to having a son, I felt in no way prepared to raise another human being (I hadn’t even come close ...
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