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Zen Meditation for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Inner Calm

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By Bonnie Myotai Treace — 2025

Beginning Zen meditation is a step into the unknown―let Zen Meditation for Beginners be your guide. This simple, straightforward handbook shows you how to embrace the beauty and clarity of the present moment―helping you destress and find balance at home, at work, or wherever you are. See more...

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How to Meditate: A Guide for Beginners

Meditation can reduce anxiety and stress. Here are tips on how to meditate for beginners.

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What Oprah Knows About the Power of Meditation

Oprah knows what disconnectedness feels like. Here, she talks about how meditation has changed her life—and why she's striving to be even more mindful in her daily life.

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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Meditation 101

By meditation we mean something very basic and simple that is not tied to any one culture.

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How to Start Meditating in 21 Steps

Consider doing something nice for your poor, flustered brain. Don't know how to meditate? Neither did we! So we asked Andy Puddicombe, the cofounder of Headspace and the voice on its app, to write this basic script. Have a friend read it to you slowly, setting a timer for 10 minutes.

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10 Top Tips for Establishing a Daily Meditation Practice

Training the mind, meditating, being mindful, or whatever else we choose to call it only works if we actively engage with it. More than that, it only works if we practice it regularly, preferably on a daily basis with a considered, gentle discipline.

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The Big Brain Benefits of Meditation

Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

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Letter to a New Meditator

Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.

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Are You Working too Hard?

We all know that unmanaged stress can be destructive. But are there positive sides to stress as well?

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Dr. Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response

Learn to counteract the physiological effects of stress.

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How to Make Your Meditations Effortless

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.

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