insight Archives - Meditation Practices for Healing and Well-Being

We Cannot Escape Impermanence

March 30, 2021 by Jerome Freedman

One of the so-called “remembrances” contains the statement, “We cannot escape impermanence.” This is recited daily in monasteries around the world. This article is about the advice that I recently gave to a colleague when she was troubled with the law of change. Consider this wisdom teaching from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh from my […]

Filed Under: Contemplations, Meditation, Mindfulness Tagged With: Eckhart Tolle, Even the sun will die, impermanence, insight, insight of impermanence, mindfulness breaks, Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening, Thich Nhat Hanh, We Cannot Escape Impermanence, Your Path to Awakening

The 3 I’s

December 8, 2020 by Jerome Freedman

One of my main meditation practices of the day is to identify the “3 I’s” and what they continue to teach me. Read this article and see if it makes sense to you. Then you can begin to practice the “3 I’s”. Before we go into this, let me describe the practice that brings me […]

Filed Under: Book, Contemplations, Meditation, Mindfulness, Visualization Tagged With: imagination, insight, investigation, Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening, The 3 I's and What They Teach

What is Involved in a Mindfulness Break™ Session?

May 9, 2017 by Jerome Freedman

By now, you may be wondering what is Involved in a Mindfulness Break™ session. Whether you sign up for a Mindfulness Break session in your home or workplace, my office, or through Skype / Whatsap / Facetime, you will have the same type of experience that hundreds of people have already had with my training […]

Filed Under: Insights, Meditation, Meditation Lessons, Mindfulness Tagged With: body scan, insight, just as it is, mindfulness break, mindfulness breaks, What is Involved in a Mindfulness Break Session

The Science of Meditation

November 9, 2016 by Jerome Freedman

While I listened to Rick Hanson‘s talk on The Science of Attention and Mind Training in the Science of Meditation Summit offered last month by Shambhala Mountain Center, I was happy to hear him speak about gamma waves and synchronized firing of neurons. As he answered a question about how does meditation practice or mindfulness […]

Filed Under: Cosmology, Insights, Mindfulness, Quotes, Research Tagged With: altered states of consciousness, amygdala, Eugene Gendlin, gamma waves, insight, quantum physics, Rick Hanson, Science of Meditation Summit, Shambhala Mountain Center, Silva Mind Control, synchronized firing of neurons, The Science of Attention and Mind Training, The Science of Meditation

9 Minute Meditation Course

July 30, 2014 by Jerome Freedman

The 9 Minute Meditation course will help you reduce or eliminate stress from your life. In just 9 minutes a day, you will be able to manage your stress, anxiety, and worries in new and different ways. 9 Minute Meditation will help you also in other aspects of your life. Your relationships with your family, […]

Filed Under: Meditation, Mindfulness Tagged With: 9 minute meditation, 9 Minute Meditation Course, compassion, equanimity, insight, loving kindness, meditation practices, mindfulness of breathing, stress, sympathetic joy

Can A Few People Make A Difference?

December 14, 2013 by Jerome Freedman

Can a few people make a difference? Yes they can! Four people, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sister Chan Khong, and Alfred Hassler did make a difference. These four superheros of peace used the five powers of faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight to change the course of history during the […]