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A Guide to Meditation

by Swami Shivapremananda

In the West, the word meditation, means a concentrated state of mind in serious reflection. The Latin root of the word meditation mederi means to heal. It is an effort to heal affl...

Be Still on a Daily Basis

by Jason Chan

In this article the author discusses the benefits of being still. Sitting still, he says, for even five minutes a day, every day for a month, can begin to transform your life. It a...

Choosing to Listen

by Dr Nirvana Tehranian

This article focuses on the importance of the present moment and listening – how or when do we listen, and to what we are listening. It also looks at why, when we are in a state of...

Creating a Sacred Space

by Roselle Angwin

There is a beautiful poem by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado and translated by Robert Bly, in which the jasmine-scented wind calls to the poet soul, offering its perfume of jasmin...

How I Met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)

by Andreas Mamet

This is an account of the author’s spiritual journey, as well as of a real-world journey to Rishikesh, a spiritual centre in the Himalayas.

How Meditation Transformed My Life

by Elizabeth Garner

This article focuses on the power of meditation. The author shares how and why she got into meditation as well as its positive effect on her. She describes her initial experience...

Living Mindfully

by Lee Ronald

Insight Meditation, also known as 'Vipassana meditation' centres around our conscious engagement with the breath. Its roots are in Buddhist teachings which have been circulating fo...

Meditation - A Practical Approach to the Art of Relaxed Awareness

by Martin J Handy

The author, a meditation teacher, emphasizes important aspects of his role, such as reassurance and encouragement, as well as the wide knowledge he needs to impart in terms of the ...

Meditation - a Way of Life

by Linda Hall

So much time is spent living in the relative dream worlds of the future or the past, we would do well to remember that both come from the present moment. The more we are able to li...

Meditation - Antidote to Stress

by Nancy Goudie

Nancy Goudie, public speaker, author, broadcaster, singer and teacher, looks at the possibility of alleviating stress through meditation.

Meditation for Health

by Lita de Alberdi

Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may e...

Meditation for Personal Transformation

by Jon Shore

This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to ...

Meditation for Self-Realization

by Carol Palmer

This article describes an ancient form of pure meditation, involving learning and practising given breaths. It is a deeper meditation than the meditative states that can be achieve...

Meditation: Staying Present to the Now

by Harry Henshaw

To live fully in the present is to become awakened to what is truly real and to our own natural power. Much of our life is spent living in the past, and in the process, attempting ...

Mindfulness Meditation for Stress

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The stress in our lives is now so great and so insidious that more and more people are making the deliberate decision to understand it better and to bring it under personal control...

Never Move From Where You Already Are

by Andrew Cohen

The meditation instructions that I give are very simple. I ask people to relax as much as they can, to be as at ease and as free from tension as possible and at the same time I w...

Oases of Calm

by Catherine M Crawford

This article focuses on the importance of quiet time, especially in today’s environment where the levels of stress we experience create problems such as headaches, skin irritations...

Practical Meditation

by Steve Hounsome

Meditation has been used for thousands of years, in many different ways and in cultures across the globe. It is thought primarily to be an Eastern practice as a means to finding sp...

Primordial Sound Meditation

by Jane Colebourn

Primordial Sound Meditation is a mantra meditation that was developed by Dr Deepak Chopra from an ancient tradition.

Reverie

by Jack Schwarz

Reverie is a short, consciously guided daydream. Day-dreams, like the dreams of sleep, give us a taste of the meditative experience. They feel quite real, and we can think, sense...