Loving Kindness Exercise

This meditation practice from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center is very simple. Just follow these instructions. Sit straight on a chair in a darkened room. Close your eyes, breathe naturally, and relax your entire body, letting go of all the tension in your race, neck, legs, arms, and feet. Focus your mind on someone

22 Jun, 2015
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Mindful Meditation Exercise

Sit straight on a chair in a darkened room. Close your eyes, breathe naturally, and relax your entire body, letting go of all tension in your face, neck, legs, arms, and feet. When you feel your body is relaxed, start to focus on your breath. I do this by focusing my attention on my abdomen

15 Jun, 2015
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Practicing Mindful Meditation

Many years ago I was doing a research project on success in various fields, and I was fortunate to interview Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher who wrote, among other books, Be Here Now, a classic book for Western readers on spirituality, meditation, and yoga. As part of the book, Ram Dass wrote about his transformation

8 Jun, 2015
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Practicing Gratitude

Gratitude, opening your heart in appreciation, is a wonderful feeling: It feels good physically, and it feels good mentally and emotionally. With its constant search for problems that may not even exist, my default programming is fabulous at making me worry rather than focusing on all the good things to be grateful about. Practicing feeling

25 May, 2015
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Breathing Exercise

First, pay attention to your anxiety by noticing your breathing and scan your body for any signs that tell you that you are anxious. Ask yourself: Where am I tense? Is my breathing labored? Am I holding my breath? Second, look within to find which emotion or emotions are linked to or are being covered

18 May, 2015
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