Archives for June 2015

Healing and the Mind – Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Sunrise Meditatoin

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Just Be Happy!

Here are two amazing quotes that tell us to just be happy! The first one if from Swami Satchidananda whose popularity among yoga students in the 1970’s was phenomenal. Seekers like Dr. Dean Ornish sought out this yogi above all others. He founded the world wide Integral Yoga Institute. I knew many of his followers […]

Heal Your Life: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

Heal Your Life: Guided Meditation. Today’s guided meditation will take you on a miraculous journey that’s meant to help you heal all areas of your life. It will help you cleanse your physical and emotional aura; release old blocks and toxins; let go of fear-based attachments and heal past-life issues that might be holding you […]

Relaxing in the Body of Meditation – YouTube

Some of the earliest meditation instruction — from the Buddha himself — emphasizes the centrality of body and breath in the process of relaxing into deeper states of awareness and realization. Will Johnson has been “obsessed” with these teachings of the Buddha for decades, and is extremely skillfull in passing the wisdom along to contemporary […]

How to Transform Suffering into an Opportunity for Growth

Here we have more words of wisdom from Robert Emmons. This lesson is on how to transform suffering into an opportunity for growth. He quotes Abraham Maslow, who we heard from recently in The Creative Spirit Of The Self-Actualizer last month. It continues on the gratitude theme from A Gratitude Practice to Increase Happiness from […]

Pope Francis Delivered His Climate Response Encyclical

By the time you read this, the rest of the world will know that Pope Francis delivered his climate response encyclical today. With the Pope getting behind climate justice, we may see a broader movement to stop global warming. This video is so entertaining that Andrew Butler says, “What’s going on here is nothing short […]

Jon Kabat-Zinn On Mindfulness In Healing

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn spoke last year (in 2011) at Dartmouth College. The topic of his speech is “The Healing Power of Mindfulness.” Some of the ways we use our minds includes worry about things that haven’t happened yet and planning what will happen next. He said, “In this moment, your life is just like this!” Recent […]

A Gratitude Practice to Increase Happiness

Robert Emmons has been investigating the psychological effects gratitude on happiness. One of his studies utilized a gratitude practice to increase happiness and health. Emmons divided the participants into three groups. The group called the gratitude condition kept a weekly journal about five things they were grateful for. The group called the hassles condition wrote […]

Give Back to Your Community

One of the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing is to give back to your community when you are ready. This is important for two reasons. The first reason is that a gift of service to your community has the benefit of getting you out of yourself long enough to serve others. This releases tension […]