Mindfulness

Mindfulness Guided Meditation with Deepak Chopra : Meditation : Video

Meditation , , , , ,
Mindfulness Guided Meditation with Deepak Chopra : Meditation : Video

Meditation :

www.wilddivine.com Practicing mindfulness and awareness is not necessarily the same for everyone. This guided meditation with Dr. Chopra is an exercise in mindfulness based meditation practice. The calming images achieve a rhythm inline with the music that accompanies you throughout the meditation. You can devote as little or as much time to your meditation practice as your comfortable with, and as the video shows you can practice mindfulness anywhere. We hope you enjoy this mindfulness guided meditation with Dr. Deepak Chopra and invite you to subscribe to the Wild Divine or add us as a friend.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Mindful Meditation : mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness Meditation , ,
Mindful Meditation : mindfulness meditation

There are lots of different types of meditation practice. Guided meditation is just one of many but has its roots in mindfulness meditation. But what is mindfulness meditation? It is a technique, a mental discipline by which with practice you learn to go beyond the reflexive thinking mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Something that can be achieved quite easily through time and habit.

Mindfulness meditation practice can also help you to achieve different goals – from tuning into a higher state of consciousness to greater focus, creativity, self awareness or simply gaining a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind. What ever your aim the practice of mindfulness meditation can also help you achieve your targets quicker and with only a few minutes regular practice.

The meditator with a´no effort attitude´remains in the here and now, using focus as an anchor to bring everything back to the present. Concentrating on using the mind to gain access to a deeper level and to devote attention solely on what the meditator is seeing and experiencing.

Mindfulness meditation can also be practiced whilst walking – being aware of every step, giving your whole attention and focus on one thing at a time. Being aware of exactly what you are doing. The gentleness of the feeling and the grace of the body´s movement whilst walking helps breakdown the automatic mental responses and encourages the deeper state of awareness of the present moment.

Practicing mindfulness meditation slows the rapidness of the thinking mind down and allows for a different perspective.

A little bit about who we are… Belinda is a Reiki Master and Spiritual Life Coach and also Mum to two grown up children. “Meditation has personally helped me cope with stress, discover inner peace and progress my own spiritual journey”. Toby, born and raised in Ibiza has always been drawn to the spiritual life. Together we have founded GuidedMeditationsNow.com to enable us to share our Guided Meditations and knowledge through the Calma Club. You can visit us at https://secrets2meditation.com/goto/?url=http://www.GuidedMeditationsNow.com

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google.

Meditation: Mindfulness Meditation Leads to Greater Wellbeing and Happiness

Meditation Basics , , , , ,

Article by Leon Potgieter

Meditation: Mindfulness Meditation Leads to Greater Wellbeing and Happiness

Meditation is not another extra activity to be occasionally practised when you have the time for it. Nor is it a specialized activity that can only be performed by the few and under unusual circumstances. It is essential for your wellbeing and can be done by everybody throughout the day. Without abandoning your ordinary life, you can learn to meet its demands with a calm, level-headed approach. This allows you to deal with your life in a competent, satisfying way and reduces levels of frustration, anger and anxiety. Mindfulness meditation is specifically designed for ordinary people and provides a straightforward, systematic method of coping with mental turbulence. This is backed up with a penetrating analysis of the human condition which uncovers unnecessary mistakes and hidden wrong assumptions so these can be avoided in the future. For those who have realized that the usual, unexamined expectations commonly held about life can never be met, meditation’s extra dimension and meaning gives new vision and hope that it is possible to find the freedom from disappointment they have been looking for.

Meditation is the attempt to understand reality and our place in it so that we can get the best out of life.

Meditation starts off with a gentle investigation into where you are at the present moment, what views you hold, if there are any inconsistencies in your viewpoint and what the results of having these inconsistencies could be.

As this is a practical, human problem and not an intellectual or philosophical problem, it can only be solved by practical means, in this case, the practical skills developed by meditation. the issues of life are always fundamentally emotional in their nature. They are based on unrealistic expectations the truth and reliability of which is considered self-evident and therefore beyond examination. Due to familiarity, a person develops a set of likes and dislikes. The likes are taken as proof that the situation giving rise to the like is right while dislikes are taken as proof that their corresponding situations are wrong. First comes the emotion and then the self-serving thoughts that justify the emotion. Whatever fits the dislikes is right, everything else is wrong. As reality does not obey this simplistic, unexamined belief, conflict and disappointment is inevitable.

These issues are emotional and prejudged. They are utterly impervious to reason or any form of intellectual effort or study. In fact, extensive intellectual development is one of the biggest obstacles to resolving them. This is especially true when the person has become proud of their large investment in some intellectual system or philosophy as then they will try to show their superior understanding by forcing the issue to fit their philosophy. Rational problems, such as building bridges or discovering how physical or chemical laws make the outer world of experience work, are susceptible to being solved by intellectual means, human problems are not.

Due to human problems being emotional by nature, when we make the futile effort to understand or solve them, we immediately react emotionally and all attempts at reason are subverted to justify the emotion or abandoned completely. This emotionality walls us off from each other as well as from an understanding of the problem and what can realistically be done about it. This emotional walling must first come down before we can vaguely attempt to do anything useful and kind.

Since the function of emotion is to agitate the mind, it stirs the mind up which prevents it from seeing clearly and acting constructively. Any attempt to intervene and deal with the emotion is again directed effort and essentially emotionally driven. Thus it will only aggravate the mental agitation and the situation will deteriorate.

The only way out is to calm this agitation down and the only workable method is to wait for the agitation to die down by itself. This peace and the insights it delivers is essentially what meditation really is. To prevent the mind from forgetting to do this effortless effort and wander into more distraction and agitation, it is anchored to a focal point, its meditation object. As this effort of meditation is not driven by the usual ambition and the wish to succeed, it is basically a non-activity: meditation is purely experiential and non intellectual. However, it still retains intelligence and understanding but now this is the understanding arising from direct (i.e. non-rational) experience. It is not the intellectual understanding which is arrived at as the conclusion of a laborious line of rational enquiry. It is a spontaneous mental event which occurs due to the fact that the mind is intensely involved in the experience of its meditation object. The intensity of this untrammelled experience delivers a brilliantly clear consciousness and profound depth of understanding.

Meditation is not an attempt to understand your life on a personal level or devise a tailor-made solution for your problems as though these are external obstacles which can be removed once you know how this can be done. This is an inappropriate approach based on the delusion that your unique demands exist and are important so that there must be a special happiness waiting somewhere out there just for you to satisfy these demands, if only you knew how to find it. This is like saying you are in love with the most beautiful person in the world but without knowing what they look like, what their name is or where they live. These are half-baked ideas that everything should be magical and easy so that if it is not then someone else must be to blame. As there is no evidence to verify this mistaken belief, it is wishful thinking. There is no method of solving this problem as it does not exist. It arises from incorrect thinking and the only realistic solution is to let go of involvement with solving this imaginary problem and correct your thinking so that it is in alignment with reality. The peace and happiness that comes with regular practice of meditation makes it possible to do this.

Meditation is an experiential investigation into the laws governing life and how they can be applied to show firstly what is realistic and possible and secondly that veering away from them into wishful thinking inevitably leads to unnecessary suffering.

About the Author

About Leon Potgieter
Leon became involved in meditation a few years after completing his Honours degree in mathematics. His first introduction to meditation was in 1981 when he completed a 12 day intensive silent retreat, each day starting at 4 am and ending at 10 pm. Over the next seven years he did numerous intensive retreats lasting from a weekend up to three or more weeks. He also spent the greater part of three years at Samyeling, a Tibetan meditation centre in Scotland. In 1988 he did a 9 month isolated retreat, living in a tent on the Wolkberg, a mountainous area near Tzaneen. In 2008 he completed a further six and a half year isolated retreat, also in the Wolkberg. Currently Leon has a Shiatsu massage practice in Johannesburg. He specialises in treating injuries and chronic back and neck pain and stress. He also treats cancer patients to alleviate stress, pain and the side effects of medical treatment and provides support during pregnancy and labour.

For more information on massage, shiatsu, pregnancy massage, cancer massage and How to Meditate, visit Massage Wisdom

Use and distribution of this article is subject to our Publisher Guidelines
whereby the original author’s information and copyright must be included.

Heart Meditation – Center For Mindfulness

Grounding Meditation , , ,

Article by Arthur Bosh

In meditation, you should remember two things. Breathing in your diaphragm is the first thing. You will breathe in your diaphragm to make your breath pass through the upper chakras. The second important thing is to stay grounded. Always attach your body to your physical self throughout meditation.

You may try grounding visualization once you feel light headed or spinning or floating. See yourself with roots of light growing out of the base of your body and your feet. They grow stronger as they deepen down into the earth, through the floor of your home, soil and rocks and lava. Certainly, it will cover the whole earth

Learn Mindfulness Meditation to Attain Self Realization

Mindfulness Meditation , , , , ,

Article by Kip Mazuy

Mindfulness meditation is really the essence of meditation and yoga. And if you practice this Zen technique given below not only in your sitting meditation but in your day-to-day life, it will help lead you into deep states of meditation and even self realization. Your natural experience of life will be one of unconditional peace and bliss.

Mindfulness meditation means to allow everything to come and go while remaining resting in the present moment. So first, allow yourself to breathe. Allow the breath to move in and out as it wants without trying to control it in any way.

And while you are consciously allowing yourself to breath, also allow whatever sensations you are feeling to be as they are. Do not concentrate on a sensation and do not resist any sensations, just allow whatever sensations you feel to be as they are.

Try this for now. Just allowing breathing to happen and allow feeling to happen. You should not describe the sensations, analyze them or think about them in any way. Just allow them while remaining resting in this moment.

Now the deeper part of mindfulness meditation deals with thinking. As you are sitting, now practice allowing thoughts to come and go. Do not try and control the thinking in any way. Just allow the thoughts to come and go. Experience the flow of thoughts coming and going rather than getting caught up in the content of the thoughts.

The challenging part in mindfulness meditation is to not get caught up in the thoughts. Allow the thoughts to come and go without getting involved with them.

It may help to passively let go of the thoughts as they come. Don’t try and push them away, there should be no trying to control the thoughts but rather as thoughts arise, let them pass by. Do not hold on to any thought.

This is a very important part of mindfulness meditation, especially if you are interested in self realization. Self realization means fully realizing yourself to be that which is beyond thinking, beyond the body and mind.

So give your full attention to allowing thoughts to come and go in this way. When the thought arises that you have to pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow, just see it as a thought arising and let it go. Don’t make it important or special, just see it as a thought arising just like any thought arising and let it go. Don’t worry about the dry cleaning.

Same with desires: if the thought comes up in meditation that you would really like some ice cream, let that thought go. Don’t grab hold of it and get lost in thinking about ice cream, just allow the thought to come and go. Surrender the thought into the silence of this moment.

When you identify with thoughts, there is an action of contraction, of gripping, of holding on to the thought. But in mindfulness meditation, there is no holding, no action at all; it is just allowing everything to pass without getting involved in any way. You are aware of the happening but not involved with it.

Then more and more you will begin to feel yourself not as the thinking mind, but as awareness, as presence itself. You will see you are not separate from this moment. You will see that thoughts are arising by themselves out of this moment and they disappear back into the silence of this moment. It is all one flow of energy. And the nature of this energy, the nature of this moment is unconditional peace and bliss.

In practicing this Zen mindfulness meditation technique, you will begin to experience this bliss, the bliss of being presence itself of being awareness itself. And in this you will even feel the bliss of thoughts arising and disappearing.

And it is this bliss that draws you into this moment more and more and leads you to self realization. The bliss begins to reveal itself in every part of your life. Walking will be bliss, driving will be bliss, working will be bliss, doing yoga will be bliss. Any action in which you are mindful will be experienced as bliss.

If you want to attain self realization then awakening this bliss is most important. And the most effective way to awaken this bliss is by receiving it from someone who has already attained self realization and radiates bliss. Simply by sitting with such a master, this bliss which is also called Shakti, Deeksha or Grace is awakened in you and deep states of meditation become effortless.

There is some amazing new sound technology available where with special recording equipment, this Shakti/bliss has been recorded and turned into sound. So simply by listening to some very unique meditation music, this Shakti/bliss energy is awakened in you.

And if you practice this mindfulness meditation technique while listening to this Shakti CD, then you will automatically begin to experience deep states of meditation, bliss and even self realization in a fraction of the time as it would trying to meditate without the CD.

You can listen to free samples of this Shakti sound technology music by visiting the “Self Realization CD” link below.

About the Author

Listen to Free Samples of a Shakti Sound Technology Proven to Awaken You into Deep Meditation & BlissVisit The Self Realization CD Website

For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Self RealizationPlease Visit The Spirituality & Enlightenment Website

Use and distribution of this article is subject to our Publisher Guidelines
whereby the original author’s information and copyright must be included.

Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing : Meditation : Video

Meditation , , , , ,
Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing : Meditation : Video

Meditation :

Google Tech Talks March 8, 2007 ABSTRACT Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one’s experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and cultivating greater well-being and happiness. His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, “without the Buddhism” to full acceptance within the mainstream of medicine, psychology, and health care, and has shown them to be effective in people suffering from a wide range of medical…
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Brief Summary of Mindfulness Research

Mindfulness Meditation , , ,

Article by Dina Oelofsen https://secrets2meditation.com/goto/?url=http://www.mindfulleadership.co.za/

The following research has been done on Mindfulness and has a significant impact on developing Leadership talent. Researchers’ interest in mindfulness practice hassteadily increased as studies continue to revealits beneficial effects. Current research looks athow the brain responds to mindfulness practice,how relationships benefit, and how physical andmental health improves, as well as other topics.The following presents a sample of the resultsfrom investigations seeking to uncover more ofwhat mindfulness can offer to enhance humanwell-being.Brain Immune SystemA burgeoning field of study has grown out ofinterest for the effects of mindfulness practice onthe brain. Current literature points towards thepotential for mindfulness to affect the structureand neural patterns present in the brain. Scientistshave seen these results last not only duringmindfulness practice, but also during the dailylife of practitioners. The results of one studypublished in NeuroReport in 2005 show thickercortical regions related to attention and sensoryprocessing in long-term meditation practitionerscompared to non-meditators. These findings alsosuggest that meditation practice may offset corticalthinning brought on by aging1. A recent studyoutlines the difference in neural functions relatedto emotion in expert meditators and novicemeditators. Individuals performed compassionmeditations, while researchers measured howthe regions in the brain responsible for emotionregulation reacted to varying stimuli. The moreadvanced meditators showed more activationin those areas of the brain that detect emotionalcues, demonstrating a heightened empathicawareness2. However, not all studies involveexpert meditators. A 2003 study focused on howan 8-week training course would affect the brainsand immune systems of individuals.This investigation provided some evidence ofincreased activation in a region of the brain correlatedwith positive affect, as well as evidence thatthe immune system would react more robustly inantibody production after meditation training3.Brief Summary ofMindfulness ResearchGreg Flaxman and Lisa Flook, Ph.D.2Article 02Another recent study showed better stress regulation,as measured by a faster decrease in levels ofthe stress hormone cortisol following a stressfullaboratory task, among Chinese undergraduatesafter 5 days of meditation training at 20 minutesa day. These students also reported less anxiety,depression, and anger compared to a group ofstudents that received relaxation training4.RelationshipsMindfulness training may affect an individual’sability to harbor successful social relationships aswell. A University of North Carolina at ChapelHill study demonstrated a correlation betweenmindfulness practice in couples and an enhancedrelationship. The couples reported improvedcloseness, acceptance of one another, autonomy,and general relationship satisfaction5. A 2007study replicated this finding, also demonstratinga correlation between mindfulness and qualityof communication between romantic partners6.Loving-kindness meditation, which can involvepositive imagery or wishes directed toward othersor self, can affect how one relates to others. Arecent study examined how individuals reacted toviewing photographs of strangers after lovingkindnessmeditation. The meditation significantlyaffected the positive values they attributed tothose strangers, demonstrating a relationshipbetween loving-kindness meditation and socialconnectedness7.Mindfulness practice can benefit familial relationships.Parents of children with developmentaldisabilities described increased satisfaction withtheir parenting, more social interactions withtheir children, and less parenting stress as a resultof mindfulnesstraining8. In another study carriedout by the same researchers regarding parentsof children with autism, the same results ofincreased satisfaction in their parenting skills andrelationship applied9. In both studies, the childrenof these parents benefited from the mindfulparenting practice, showing decreases in aggressiveand non-compliant behavior. In addition, amindfulness intervention for adolescents withexternalizing disorders that involved their parentsin the treatment showed improvement in thehappiness of the children, as well as the parents’perception of their child’s self-control10.ClinicalA popular form of mindfulness intervention,devised by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is Mindfulness-BasedStress Reduction (MBSR). This interventionoriginally came about to help those with chronicpain issues or stress-related disorders. Typically inMBSR programs, individuals go through an 8-10week session in which they practice for at least 45minutes a day. Numerous therapies incorporatingmindfulness have sprouted in recent years. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, similar to MBSR,teaches individuals to recognize their thoughtsand feelings with a nonjudgmental attitude. Whenresearchers studied its effectiveness in preventinga relapse of depression for those in remittancefrom a depressive episode, 37% of those that wentthrough an 8-week MBCT program experienceda relapse compared to 66% of those not in theprogram11. Helping professionals can use mindfulnessto improve their abilitiy to empathize withthose they serve as well. A study3Article 02of an 8-week MBSR course for nurses showed thattheir mindfulness practice facilitated empathicattitudes, as well as decreased their tendency totake on others’ negative emotions12. A previousstudy of health-care professionals going throughthe 8-week MBSR program presented results ofincreased self-compassion and reduced stress inthose individuals13. Such self-care may trickledown to improve upon the quality of the relationshipbetween those professionals and their clients.While the majority of mindfulness studies havefocused on adults, some pertain to the practice ofmindfulness in children and adolescents. A seriesof studies have documented its use as an interventionfor youth with psychological disturbances. Inone 6-week study with anxious children, teachersreported an improvement in academic functioningand decrease in symptoms of anxiety in thechildren14. Another utilized mindfulness-basedcognitive therapy with the result of significantlyreducing observable internalizing and externalizingsymptoms. Over 80% of children and parentsinvolved in this study thought that schools shouldteach mindfulness15. A mindfulness interventionfor several adolescents with conduct disorderresulted in a significant decrease in aggressivebehavior. They reported benefits from mindfullyreturning their attention to the soles of their feetduring distressing situations16. In a recent studyfor adolescents with ADHD, mindfulness trainingsignificantly reduced symptoms associated withtheir disorder17.EducationThere is increasing interest in the utility of mindfulnesspractices in educational settings. A studyof 1st-3rd grade children that involved a 12-weekprogram of breath awareness and yoga (deliveredonce per week every other week) showed improvementsin children’s attention and social skillsas well as decreased test anxiety in children whowent through the training as compared to controls18.Another program that combined elementsof MBSR and tai chi for a small group of middleschool students in a 5-week program found thatstudents reported an increased sense of calm,connection to nature, and improved sleep aftergoing through the training19. Two pilot studiesconducted through UCLA’s Mindful AwarenessResearch Center indicate improvements inself- regulatory abilities among preschool andelementary school students who participated inan 8-week mindful awareness practices trainingprogram (developed and taught by InnerKids intwo 30-minute sessions per week). Specifically,children who were initially less well-regulatedshowed the strongest improvements subsequentto training, as compared to children in the controlgroup who did not receive the training20 21.These preliminary findings suggest potentialbenefit and practical applications of mindfulnessfor children in school settings.Other mind/body practicesMindfulness is not alone in the world of mind/body awareness practices currently studied byscientists. A 2006 qualitative study followed theeffects of one year of Transcendental Medita4Article 02tion! (during the first and last 10 minutes ofeach school day) on ten middle school students.Themes that emerged from individual interviewswith students included a greater ability at selfcontroland improved social relationships, as wellas better academic performance. Other investigatorshave evaluated the benefits of Yoga as well22. Investigators found Sahaja Yoga Meditation,an awareness practice related to mindfulness, asan effective intervention for children with ADHDand their families. Results included an improvementin the self-esteem of the children, a reductionin their ADHD symptoms, and an improvedrelationship between parent and child23. A studyof Iyengar Yoga as a complement to medicationin the treatment of depression found significantreductions in overall depression, anger, andanxiety among participants. Participants alsoconsistently rated their moods higher after thecompletion of each class than before each onecommenced24. The underlying mechanismsinvolved in these types of practice remain to beunderstood, although it appears that each doesoffer health benefits.While the discussed research gives one a glimpseinto the many topics of study involving mindfulness,it does not capture the complete picture.Some areas have barely been broached by investigators,including mindfulness in the workplaceand mindfulness in athletics. Future investigationsmay increasingly shed light on both how mindfulnessworks as well as directly comparing variousforms of practice.1 Lazar, S., et al. (2005). Meditation experience is associated withincreased cortical thickness.NeuroReport, 16(17), 1893-1897.2 Lutz,

Mindfulness Meditation – How to Mine Your Past for Creative Gold

Mindfulness Meditation , , , , ,

Article by Richard M. Frost

In our headlong rush to create a new, supposedly better reality for ourselves, there is a great danger of reinforcing a pervasive belief that what we have now isn’t good enough. Such an attitude is counter-productive and a sure recipe for unhappiness. But this constant focus on the future also causes us to ignore a potential source of creative gold: memories of happy experiences from our past. And those memories should not be overlooked, for their vividness in our minds gives them an extra creative potential that wishful thoughts about an imaginary future often lack.

The Past is Not Dead, But it Could be Killing Your Future

Once we have accepted the unconventional proposition that we create our reality with our thoughts, then the six-million dollar question inevitably becomes, “What are we setting ourselves up for by thinking what we’re thinking?” Through the cultivation of mindfulness, we must constantly observe our thoughts and emotions, and stand ready to police negativity that will cause problems if left unchecked.

What that mindfulness often reveals is that we spend a great deal of our time rehashing events from our past – usually bad ones. If just one little thing goes wrong with an otherwise decent day, you can bet your bottom dollar that you’ll be dwelling on that isolated incident, blowing it up out of all proportion and granting it a significance it almost certainly doesn’t deserve. Not only does this make you unhappy without good reason; it also sets in motion creative forces that will cause this poor quality of experience to expand. Think of it as a snowball effect or as a vicious circle, but you are going to get more of what you concentrate upon.

Sadly, we often end up using our creative power not to make the better future we want by concentrating on how things could be, but instead create a poorer future by focusing on the lousy things that have already been. This process is at work all the time, even for people who would laugh at the suggestion that their own thoughts and feelings affect their physical reality. Those of us who have made this breakthrough and perceived our own power ought to know better, but all too often fall into the same self-destructive traps as everyone else. It takes a tremendous degree of experienced mindfulness to learn this lesson.

Time to Turn the Tables

Most efforts to create better realities involve positive thoughts and images about a potential future. Those efforts are particularly difficult when we sabotage ourselves by allocating more time to complaints about the past and present. This tendency dooms many people to failure before they start, so it is no wonder that some say creative visualization doesn’t do any good. In a generally dark mental environment, a few rays of sunshine amount to little more than damage limitation.

There are two things we can do to give our future a better chance at working out the way we want, and both involve our past. The first, following on from what we have just discussed, is to stop dwelling on all the bad things we habitually churn up from our past, whether that past occurred earlier today or twenty years ago. (Memories of ancient harms don’t go away. In fact, the brain is hard-wired to hang on to them.)

The second thing we can do is to deliberately focus on all the good things that have happened in the past. And, no, it’s not acceptable for you to say, “What good things?” Unless you’ve been a prisoner of war all your life, there will have been some good along the way. And even if your life has been unusually hard, we should not forget what Viktor Frankl told us in Man’s Search for Meaning. The most resilient humans – those who survive against all odds – are somehow able to find something positive in the most hellish conditions imaginable.

Focusing on the best events from your past will encourage those better qualities of experience to reappear. No matter what else has happened since, or is happening right now, no one can ever take those memories away from you. They are always available to you, ready and willing to help you focus your attention and creative energy through a brighter prism, and to rekindle happier emotions.

Thus, instead of dredging up toxic mud from the murky depths of your past, only to dump it into the flow of your current consciousness, why not instead tap into your deep reserves of creative gold? The more you do this, the easier it will become. And if you persist long enough, you will start to detect those same happy qualities of experience occurring anew. The details will be different, but life will try to give you more of the same. Once again, the bottom line is this: What do you want more of – the worst things that have happened to you, or the best?

About the Author

The uses and limits of mindfulness practices are discussed in greater detail in this thoughtful and unique meditation blog.