Your presence dispels the darkness. Know that you can always go to your state of being no matter what the challenges are during you daily activities.
One simple technique we’ve learned from wonderful Deepak Chopra in New York is “S.T.O.P”. It’s basically an acronym of a simple technique you can use tin any situation to return your state of being, to return to your calmness and manage your oncoming anxiety.
Read MoreAs part of bringing “mindfulness” practice into our daily lives, this practice is aimed at paying attention to and truly appreciating little things in our lives that give happiness and joy to us.
This practice integrates gratitude, mindfulness and positive psychology to reduce our stress hormones, increase our happiness and overall wellbeing like better sleep and higher energy levels.
Read MoreThink of a situation in your life that is difficult, that is causing you stress. Call the situation to mind, and see if you can actually feel the stress and emotional discomfort in your body.
Now, say to yourself:
1. This is a moment of suffering.
That’s mindfulness.
Other options include:
· This hurts.
· Ouch.
· This is stress.
Read MoreAs we’ve noted in our previous post, we can expand and build our loving-kindness practice to include other beings, whom we might have variety of relations with in our lives. In this practice we direct well-wishing phrases toward different people in our lives, such as a new neighbor, a person who has helped carrying our grocery bag, a high-powered person in the government or perhaps someone who yells at us for no apparent reason. At the core of this practice, for each person, we attempt to cultivate the practice of connection, attention and kindness.
Taking the time to think of others in our hearts quietly and wishing them well is quite a challenge, especially toward those who we feel somewhat distant and cold. Taking just a few minutes a day to reflect in this way is a powerful path to transformation.
Read MoreLoving-kindness, also called “Metta” in Pali language, is the ability to accept ourselves as a whole and approach others with same sincerity, love, kindness and care.
Loving-kindness meditation practice can be performed toward ourselves as well as toward close friends and families, or can be extended to those who happen to irritate or annoy us one way or another in our daily life.
In addition, we could include in our meditation those people who has some kind of function in our lives directly or indirectly, like the cab-driver we often have casual conversation with. Furthermore, it may even comprise of other beings such as children, or human companions like our pets and others’.
Read MoreThe spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle introduced this meditation practice in his ground-breaking book titled “New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”. And we practiced this meditation with him live while attending his class at the Eckhart Tolle “School of Awakening”. In short, we find this practice quite effective in terms of connecting with the Presence and getting a sense of what Mr. Tolle calls the “Deep I”.
Read MoreThis 3-minute mindfulness practice is about helping us gently exit from our auto-pilot mode and unstuck ourselves from our current challenging situation, whatever it may be, by bringing our attention to our breathing and our body.
It provides a structure for noting, grounding, and allowing in the middle of a challenging situation or whenever automatic pilot took over in our daily lives. Due to our multitasking, or automatic routines, mostly our attention is not really available to us, and it’s not really being guided or directed by our intentionality.
Read MoreBody Scan Meditation is a great way to relax, get grounded and experience the liveliness and ever changing aspect of your body, especially when you feel disconnected from your body for whatever the reason it might be. This mediation also helps opening the door for new understanding about how our bodies are always in constant change despite its solid appearance.
Read MoreThere are various ways and postures with which we can meditate. “Walking” is one of them alongside sitting, lying, and standing. All of these techniques serve to the same common principle: Bringing mindfulness to the present moment through observing our thoughts, emotions and body sensations.
Read More“At its most basic level, attention – what we allow ourselves to notice – literally determines how we experience and navigate the world.” says Sharon Salzberg. But aren’t we all having a shortage of it, thanks to the weapons of mass-distraction: digital devices, smartphones, internet and social media, and many others…
Read MoreWhen we are busy dealing with daily tasks something like driving in the traffic, walking on the street, talking with a friend, waiting at a subway station or vacuuming at home, etc., our minds are often far away thinking about something else. Our minds are actively chattering. We may be fantasizing about sailing on a boat, or worrying about a future event or thinking about other things in the past.
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