How the bad stuff that has happened to us controls our awareness unless we actively change that The Buddhist technique to shift your awareness away from what’s troubling you About my own transformation from anger to awareness“Awareness creates choice.”That you can meditate in bed first thing ...
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At the end of the day, Zen is very simple, but at the same time very hard to comprehend. It’s a question of struggling and practicing repeatedly, much like life itself. In this seated position of zazen, without doing anything special and expecting nothing in return, if our posture, our...
In particular, the Buddhist Anapanasati Sutta, also known as the “Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing,” details Buddha’s instructions on how to use the breath to cultivate mindfulness. In the Sutra, Buddha teaches that us that the first step in transforming our suffering, fear, an...
As Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and the co-founder of Headspace, puts it: “Empathy does not require that we have been through the same thing as another person, simply that we meet them where they are now.” Empathy may seem like an all-or-nothing emotion; in a way, that...
As a result, our kindness tends to get squeezed to make room, to the extent that we might forget we possess such a quality. We might even scoff that it’s a part of us at all. The more we meditate with loving-kindness in mind, the more we foster compassion and let go of judgment...
(Break your anxiety cycle but not your skull: Remember to wear a helmet.) Photo: Thinkstock The Best-Foot-First Meditation We admit it's sometimes hard to meditate—legs in lotus, back stick-straight, mudra fingers on knees—especially when our sciatica is flaring up and a frantic mosquito...
Focused attention is very much like a muscle, one that needs to be strengthened through exercise. Less anxiety This point is pretty technical, but it’s really interesting. The more we meditate, the less anxiety we have, and it turns out this is becausewe’re actually loosening the connectio...
That’s why meditation, like self-love, is a constant practice. It’s also why the Headspace app offers guided meditations, so that the voice of one of the in-app teachers offers instruction throughout. What we are cultivating when we meditate is a place beyond thought, beyond feeling, be...
Like Andy said, thebest time to meditateis whenever it works best for you. Here are 9 suggestions for when to meditate when you’re short on time — plus 4 meditations to try that are 5 minutes or less: Short morning meditations