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Ready to Give Meditation a Try?

By Kimberly Goad — 2020

A beginner's guide to quieting the mind in a time of stress. Includes three guided meditations by popular mindfulness teachers to try now.

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How to Meditate

Meditation isn't very hard. In fact: if you can breathe, you can meditate. Learn how to meditate, as taught by the Buddha, with our easy-to-follow guide.

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Confessing Jesus' Name Means Confessing Revolutionary Love

I must confess that I am an African-American woman, a Christian woman, a woman who believes there is more than one path to God.

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Jacqui Lewis
2016
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A Guided Meditation for Turning Awareness into Action

Michelle Maldonado, coauthor of A Bridge To Better: An Open Letter To Humanity and Resource Guide, shares a guided meditation for strengthening our ability to be self-aware, self-actualized, and self-determined as we co-create our emerging new reality and world together.

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Michelle Maldonado
2020
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A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg

This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for them, because our lives are inextricably linked.

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Sharon Salzberg
2020
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A 6-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Expand Your Awareness

Tita Angangco, cofounder of The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, shares a loving-kindness meditation that serves as an ignition to spark change.

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Tita Angangco
2021
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What Is Kundalini Meditation?

Kundalini meditation is a way of channeling your energy and releasing yourself from stress and living on "auto-pilot."

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Arlin Cuncic
2020
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A 20-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation

Jessica Morey leads a meditation to help us connect with our own goodness. When we're anchored in feelings of love and gratitude, we can bring loving-kindness and compassion with us out into the world.

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Jessica Morey
2021
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Wim Hof: The Man and the Method

Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.

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Emily Cronkleton
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Meditation Advice for Beginners from Dan Harris

Many of us are grappling with stress, fear, and uncertainty during the global pandemic. We’ve all heard that meditation is helpful, but it’s so hard to start!

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Amy Brinker, Dan Harris
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Body-Work and Being. The Deeper Significance of Somatics

I suddenly knew that the mechanical reactions of my muscles and guts were my personality; that my soul, in fact, lay there writhing to break out of those rigid bonds. - Don Hanlon Johnson

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Don Hanlon Johnson
1987
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