By Richard Davidson — 2016
Dr. Richard Davidson explains that well-being is a skill that can be practiced and strengthened.
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To help you learn how to meditate and integrate it into your life, SELF asked meditation experts some of your most common meditation questions.
Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.
Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
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It can be powerful medicine for both your mind and relationships.
In the past, I’ve felt kind of foolish every time I’ve tried morning meditation. I kind of tried to keep with a regular practice but it just wasn’t working for me.
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Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a “spiritual” phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical.
A panel discussion with Phillip Moffitt, Cyndi Lee, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Reggie Ray. Introduction by Anne Carolyn Klein.
Once you begin meditating daily, life as you knew it will begin to take on some interesting twists and turns.
Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.
With so many demands on our time and minds, it takes conscious effort to take a moment and allow ourselves the time we need to explore who we truly are. Even when we do make time, many people are stuck on how to actually do this.