By Mukti Gray — 2008
Learn how to break the cycle of suffering from "push-pull' thoughts by really embracing stillness.
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Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.
Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.
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Meditation has a built-in problem that needs solving, the problem of noncompliance. Countless people have taken up the practice, motivated by the benefits of meditation supported by literally thousands of studies.
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.
Zen teacher Norman Fischer proposes a two-week trial run to get your meditation practice started and looks at how to deal with some of the obstacles you may encounter.
Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.
When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they discovered something surprising: The effect of Buddhist meditation isn’t just momentary; it can alter deep-seated traits in our brain patterns and character.