Stop living our life with guilt. Guilt about what we did not do and what we should do can stop us from living life in the present moment. Guilt makes us give away our power. We tell ourselves we ‘should’ do things we don’t really want to do.
I am tired of improving myself. I just cant improve. I am lazy, selfish, self indulgent and generally full of myself. I am NOT nice. I also get angry about narrow mindedness. I wish I had been born in a more liberal society, I’d definitely have been able to have purple hair at 16, something…
How to recognize if you or someone around you is suffering from stress Physical signs of stress include: Sleep disturbance (insomnia, sleeping fitfully) clenched jaw grinding teeth digestive upsets lump in your throat difficulty swallowing agitated behavior, like twiddling your fingers playing with your hair increased heart rate general restlessness sense of muscle tension in…
“I don’t have that much time to meditate, but I want to do something good for my brain, what else can I do?”
Meditation means being able to develop the strength not to run away from yourself. We do confuse the happiness that comes from meditation, from the happiness that comes from life such as family, friends, jobs, events etc. Those are all great and wonderful joys. But the joy of meditation is witnessing who you really are, beyond all the names, beyond all the masks, beyond the boxes, beyond words. It heals the mind to detach from the self.
Before you begin, its important to get physically comfortable. Before you sit for meditation, move and stretch enough to start feeling physical sensation. Then you are ready to begin. Don’t rush into meditation from busy mind to meditation mind, because getting there isn’t the point. There is no where to get to, except here. When…