One of my more popular guided meditations on the Insight Timer app is meant to help people get to sleep.…
Anyone who has meditated knows that over and over again we turn the mind toward the sensations of the breathing,…
There can be lots of reasons for why we avoid meditating. We might not want to experience particular feelings. We…
The problem with distractions is that they're compelling. They make us think that they're important. They draw us into their…
The one emotion that we most commonly repress is joy. We don't intend to do this. Instead, it happens through…
The moment when we realize that we've been caught up in a distracted train of thought is a valuable opportunity…
Someone recently asked me about how to deal with useful distractions: As a creative writer, I think I get some…
Someone wrote to me the other day, asking for advice regarding how to deal with a bout of self-punishing doubt:…
Some kinds of thinking are helpful in terms of what we're trying to achieve in the meditation, and some kinds…
In her book My Stroke of Insight, brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor explains that the natural life span of an…