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10 Health Benefits of Mindfulness
by Stannah
“Developing countries have high, and increasing, issues with heart health, mental health problems, relationship breakdown and substance abuse because we live in a culture of busy-ne...
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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...
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Application of Mindfulness for Work-Related Stress
by Dr William Van Gordon
According to the UK Health and Safety Executive, work-related stress results in a loss to the UK of 10 million working days each year and similar statistics are reported for the US....
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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...
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Best Plants for Meditation and Healing
by J Parker’s Dutch Bulbs (Wholesale) Ltd
According to the statistics from Bupa Global, over 26% of UK adults meditate because of its healing benefits, with British men (30%) practising meditation almost twice as much as wo...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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How Meditation Is Changing With The Times
by Linda Hall
Far reaching changes brought about by recent advances in technology and science have created fundamental shifts in the way meditation is perceived and practised. The enlightened age...
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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...
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by John Hendry
As I write, in September, a brochure has just arrived in the post emblazoned Christmas Gifts. OK, some of it’s proper forward planning, but we do seem to need something to look forw...
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Introduction – A Mindfulness Guide for Survival
by Ruby Wax
If anyone had told us a few weeks before March 2020 that most of the world would be unable to leave their homes because a virus was going on a rampage, we would have said it was a b...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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Meditation & Mindfulness Toward Positive Transformation and Fulfilment
by Alex Montagu
We all exist in two different worlds. One is the external world; the other is our inner world. We tend to spend all of our time in the outer world but very little, if any, in our i...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...