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Terms like groundbreaking and life-changing are often used to describe books, but not always accurately. They are when describing The Power of Now, which has become a genuine cultural phenomenon. Oprah Winfrey keeps it at her bedside and calls it “one of the most valuable books I’ve ever read.
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In a world where there’s much to be taken seriously, it’s important to remember to laugh. Not to make light of the severity of war, discrimination, terror threats, or climate change, but to maintain a perspective that there is still much to be thankful for and to celebrate in your life.
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
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Imagine yourself a great lover of music, about to hear the world’s greatest musician perform an unknown composition. Imagine yourself listening to that performance. How would the mind be?
The antidote to fear is to reconnect with the immediate sense of now. During this broadcast from the Peace Room, Adyashanti speaks about the fear that can arise from encountering the unknown. When we focus only on our fear, we can lose connection with the concrete reality of the moment.
Speaker: Amy Cuddy, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Author Topic: "Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges" (Little, Brown, 2015) Leadership Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman March 4, 2016
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Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.
In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas presents a marvelously effective practice for developing the transformative quality of presence.
Why is it so difficult to respond consciously when we are upset? Why do we instead resort to hurtful, repetitive, unconscious, reactive behaviors? The reason is that we all have deeply suppressed emotional imprints that are programmed into us through experience and other’s example.
Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening.