A Meditation Practice From One Of My Readers

Mindfulness Meditation - Part 1

In a chat conversation with one of my readers, I sent her the link to my video of the First Mindfulness Meditation Practice. I am including it here for you to watch as well. Then she replied with this: Wow, it is great. Would do you think about this, I heard that this is very [...]

Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks On Life “Just As It Is”

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the  Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts. He is famous for creating the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program which is now all over the world. This program teaches people from all walks of life and all religious beliefs a [...]

Meditation Practices: How Do They Affect The Brain?

This Google Talk by Dr. Philippe Goldin of Stanford University is titled, “Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation.” Dr. Goldin spent six years in India and Nepal studying meditation and languages. In his talk, he examined the effect of mindfulness meditation practice on brain function. He listed three basic types of meditation: concentration, analytic and emptiness. The [...]

Meditation as Medicine

Dr. Robert Stahl at Google Tech Talk

Dr. Robert Stahl has founded Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses in medical centers around the San Francisco Bay Area. He recently gave a Tech Talk at Google about meditation as medicine in relationship to MBSR. As you can imagine, the lecture was very well attended. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction was founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn [...]

Mindfulness Meditation Practices in Politics

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in Vancouver 2011

Did you know that there are now mindfulness meditation practices in politics? These three excerpts should demonstrate this fact. Mindfulness Meditation Practices in Politics 1. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh The first is Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s visit to Stormont. He spoke to members of parliament about reconnecting with their spiritual life to create [...]

What is Mindfulness?

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Mindfulness is the act of deliberately paying full attention to what is going on in the present moment without judgment. I’m sure you have experienced moments of mindfulness sometime in your life. These moments of mindfulness can come when you see a beautiful sunset or gaze down on your infant child in awe or in [...]