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Overcoming resistance to meditation (a self-compassionate guide)

There can be lots of reasons for why we avoid meditating. We might not want to experience particular feelings. We…

June 14, 2019

Get your sit together in 2017

Meditating regularly has immense benefits. Meditating makes you happier, is good for your health, protects your brain from aging, boosts…

December 9, 2016

Overcoming resistance to meditation

No matter how much experience we have of meditation being beneficial in our lives, and of not meditating making life…

December 4, 2013

“To be creative means to consider the whole process of life as a process of birth.” Eric Fromm

For social psychologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, creativity wasn't necessarily about bringing something — a poem, a symphony, a sculpture…

August 26, 2013

Getting your meditation practice back on track

You committed to yourself that you’ll meditate. And you do, for a few days or weeks. But then something happens.…

January 31, 2011

Travelling into the breath

A short travel into the mind during a guided meditation.... Preparing myself with consideration of my back problem, balancing the…

November 18, 2010

When practice goes backwards

I've not been feeling very well the last couple months. I feel tired and achy a lot of the time.…

October 20, 2010

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall

I made three resolutions for this year’s summer trip: · be extra patient with my partner · don’t drink wine…

August 10, 2010

Unweaving pain’s tapestry

There are three main approaches that can help make meditation enjoyable and sustainable when meditating with pain. 1. Learning to…

May 21, 2008

Waking up into the moment

The goal of Buddhist practice is "bodhi" or "Awakening." Waking up fully to reality may yet be far off, but…

February 22, 2008