Posts tagged mindfulness
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Inner-Body Meditation

The 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”.

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What is Meditation; what are the benefits of it and how we can practice meditation?

“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…

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WHAT IS MINDFULNESS?

When 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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