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Chakra Meditation
What are Chakras? If you haven’t heard of chakras, they can be described as our energy organs. We have our physical organs like our heart and lungs, but we also have energetic organs. Even though they’re usually not shown on a poster in the doctor's office, they still deserve a check up! Whenever we’re having an off day, but nothing is really to blame, it could just be blocked energy in our chakras.
By Balance Bliss Yoga5 years ago in Longevity
How Meditation Will Help You Improve Your Life
The mind that is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and repel every attack. — Marcus Aurelius
By JM Miana5 years ago in Longevity
Meditation for Fidgets
Are you wanting to begin an meditation practice, but don't think it's "for you"? Maybe you have days you are just so busy that you skip meditation, subsequently feeling guilty afterward. Or, perhaps you just cannot sit and meditate without planning your grocery list or wondering when Outlander will return. Is it a part of your self care and mindfulness practice that you just can't get on board with? Regardless of the reason you think you can't, there are other ways to bring yourself into awareness and focus on your goals and what you want to send out. Even if you've got the attention span of a drunk squirrel. Here are 3 steps to making sure you're keeping your shit together, regardless of seated meditation..
By Dena Danzig5 years ago in Longevity
4 Stages of Meditation
The whole essence of meditation is paying attention to your work, your relationships, and other situations. That's the actual sense meditation.
By Infinitians5 years ago in Longevity
Inspired
When she holds back her tears, it gets stuck in her chest. Her chest feels tight, as her breath feels short. Words come out without depth. Her heart feels hollow, her arteries feel narrow.
By Marzi Banilohi5 years ago in Longevity
The Real Essence of Meditation
Now that you have learned the ABCs of Meditation, don’t think it is game over already. Actually, the game has just started now.
By Infinitians5 years ago in Longevity
Five reasons that make online meditation and talks ideal for you.
The reality can be revealed to you in simple language. Your efforts for peace, health, and spiritual enrichment are addressed in these sessions. This online session is so essential and has, in fact, become easier to conduct Satsang(spiritual gathering) and meditation to anyone from around the world!
By Jawahar Govindan5 years ago in Longevity
Millennials' Misconceptions About Meditation
Being a millennial myself, I understand the struggle of living with a hyperactive mind. Thoughts are always darting around, piling up in our heads. Our minds have been blessed (maybe also cursed) with the ability to multitask and focus on a million things at once. It's easy for us to feel like SpongeBob in this scene:
By Nira Misa5 years ago in Longevity
The Clouded Mind
As the founder of Soto Zen shares, “Put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases and learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines inward” (Baldoquin p 179). Thanks to the way our society works, we are molded to fill our heads with all of the wrong things. From the very beginning we are made out to waste precious time focusing on words and phrases that are essentially taking us down the wrong path. Our minds are filled with clouds consistently as we work our way through the ingrained process of socialization. “Great is the matter of life and death. Awake, awake. Don’t waste time” (Baldoquin p 180).
By Amanda 5 years ago in Longevity
Meditation
Meditation “We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement” (Chördön). I grew up a dancer, from age two my mother put me in my first ballet class and I have not been able to stop dancing since. Dance had always been a form of release for me. Looking back at it now, it was probably the first form of meditation I ever practiced. Considering it was the only time my mind was still and there was no need to judge any emotion that arose, it all found its own place in my movements. However, this passion began to dwindle with the intensity of competitive dance. It became this process of constant self-improvement, an seemingly race against other performers just as well. It lost the passion, it lost the meditative state, and it became another stressors in my life. That is just why I love Pema Chördön’s quote, because there is no need for self-improvement, we already have it all. That is what the continuation of my mediation practice has proven to me. “The practice of meditation is based, not on how we would like things, but on what is” (Trungpa).
By Amanda 5 years ago in Longevity
Chaos to Calm in 5 Minutes
Panic, stress, anger, sadness, overwhelm... these feelings are probably resonating with you on a new level this year (is 2020 over yet!?). You do not have to let these feelings dictate your decisions. When you base your decisions based on how you feel in a negative state, it can lead to negative outcomes. This may be the cause of the exact opposite reaction of what you wanted to happen. Luckily, it is easy to return to a calm state by learning how to use your breath to help bring you back to center. For example, have you ever started to get worked up or excited when your talking and you start talking really fast and the person your talking to can no longer understand you and it starts to get really frustrating? Than in the back of your mind you remembered something you most likely heard in elementary school years, slow down and take 3 deep breaths. Than you paused and took 3 deep breaths, felt calmer and were able to finish your conversation in a calmer tone. In this example the breath was used to control the tempo and tone of the conversation by calming the body and focusing mind to be able to finish the conversation. Taking full deep breaths is one of the quickest ways we can use our breath to calm down. There are many different breathing exercises you can do from nostril breathing to fire belly breathing. Each of the different breath techniques serve a different purpose. For example, alternating nostril breathing can help reduce anxiety, calm and is commonly used in yoga practice. Breath of fire (fire belly breathing) technique is used to help reduce stress and can also improve digestion and strengthen the abdominal wall. Today we will focus on a short breathing/meditation combo that will help you become more calm and focused. (This even makes a great escape if you are not stressed and just seeking a few minutes of space for yourself.)
By Shannon Emary5 years ago in Longevity
7 Great Ways to Use Subliminal Self-Hypnosis
The subconscious mind is a vast nether-region of experiences, thoughts, and beliefs that may not filter through to the conscious mind. These shadow thoughts, and beliefs, nonetheless affect our day to day lives, experiences, and behaviours.
By Samadhi5 years ago in Longevity