By Lynn Rossy — 2017
An 8-step mindfulness practice to build awareness around hunger, fullness, and healthier eating choices.
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CLEAR ALL
In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...
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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“You are what you eat” is the old cliché that you are no doubt familiar with, but have you ever realized just how profound this notion is and applied it in your life?
The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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I was reading metaphysical books and going to workshops, and one of the ones I attended was on creative visualization—learning to use your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create what you really want.
I became extremely serious about meditation practice when I read the following line from the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi: “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”
In the mid-sixties there seemed to be an expectation that if we got high, we’d be free. We were not quite realistic about the profundity of man’s attachments and deep clingings. We thought that if only we knew how to get high the right way, we wouldn’t come down.
Is there something woven into the fundamental fabric of our being that urges us to seek fulfillment beyond the offerings of the external world?
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.