Watching Your Emotions during Meditation It is quite common to experience strong emotions during meditation. If you are by nature an emotional person this may not be a problem for you because you are used to experiencing high levels of feeling, but if you are a cool, unemotional type who is used to keeping [...]
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Walking Meditation
By chenno on Friday, April 22nd, 2011 | No Comments
Walking Meditation Practised regularly the following exercise (based on Kinhin, a Zen meditation technique) will increase your awareness of the relationship between your mind and body. Practise it for as long as you feel comfortable. 1) Find a peaceful space, preferably outdoors. Choose a place where you can walk freely for a few minutes [...]
Read More...Stilling Your Mind
Stilling Your Mind During Your Meditation Practice This exercise will help you to still your mind by monitoring your thoughts as they come and go during meditation. 1) Sit in your meditation position. Relax, breathe naturally and easily, and focus your attention on your thoughts, don’t stop or censor your thoughts, allow them to flow [...]
Read More...Overcoming Negative Emotions Meditation
By chenno on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 | No Comments
Overcoming Negative Emotions Meditation This exercise will help you to deal with overwhelming or negative emotions that may arise at any time, but especially during meditation. 1) Close your eyes and breathe deeply for a few minutes. When you feel calm, imagine that you are holding a large stone, rock or crystal in your hand. This [...]
Read More...Meditation Instructors
By chenno on Friday, March 25th, 2011 | No Comments
How to find the right meditation instructor If you would like to play volleyball but do not know how, what do you do? To start with, you can watch other people play, maybe buy a book or two, and then head out to the court yourself and start practicing. But once you have mastered the [...]
Read More...Meditation For You
By chenno on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
More benefits of meditation Lighten up! Perhaps you have noticed that non stop thinking and worrying generates inner fears that feed on one another, problems get magnified exponentially, and the next thing you know, you are feeling overwhelmed and panicked. Meditation encourages an inner mental spaciousness in which difficulties and concerns no longer seem so [...]
Read More...Meditation And The Three States Of Consciousness
By chenno on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | No Comments
Meditation, properly speaking, begins once the thoughts and emotions have been silenced. It is a state of intense inward awareness, a state in which a persons’ attention is no longer engaged in the outside circumstances but is wholly engrossed in the superconscious experience. Meditation may be defined also, as any practice of which the goal [...]
Read More...Living in the Meditation Break
By chenno on Sunday, March 20th, 2011 | No Comments
How to live after your meditation session Learn to live more superconsciously. This means to live with meditation-born awareness. Try to make the peace you experience in meditation the basis of your objective experience of life. Do not let the meditative peace slip between your fingers the moment you find the winds of worldly duties [...]
Read More...Learning To Sit Still For Meditation
By chenno on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 | No Comments
Be Still for Meditation When talking about the practice of sitting still during meditation, one of the great meditation teachers, the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki, used to say that the best way to show a snake its true nature is to put it in a hollow stick of bamboo. Take a moment and give this [...]
Read More...How Get In Tune With Your Senses During Meditation
By chenno on Friday, March 18th, 2011 | No Comments
Enhance Your Senses During Meditation Smell: You can enhance your sense of smell during meditation by exploring the particular nuances of your favorite scent, a flower, or fruit, and the sensations of breathing it in. Then, as if appreciating an intoxicating fragrance, inhale slowly and savor the breath. Even if there is nothing actually in [...]
Read More...Christian Meditator
