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Advanced breath and counting techniques

Advanced meditation techniques: breath and counting Improve your practice with these additional methods: advanced breath and counting techniques. Here is another way to use the breath as the object of

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Mindful microhits meditation

Mindful microhits meditation Instead of staying with an object of meditation for any sustained period of time, another option is to intensely focus on one sensation for a brief period.

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Touring the senses meditation

Touring the senses meditation In 5-Minute Mindfulness: Walking,* Douglas Baker offers another way of working with awareness that he calls “Touring the Senses.” In his “touring the senses meditation,” Baker

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Free-floating awareness meditation

Free-Floating Awareness Meditation The next mode of awareness is “free-floating.” Returning to the camera analogy, in this type of focus, point the camera at the first thing that draws your

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Wide focus meditation

Wide Focus Meditation Widening Focus – When I first began to run, that “wonky ankle” would swell. It rarely hurt during the run, but it ached after. I checked with

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"Writing is not just an act of creation. It is a process of self-discovery."—Cristina Istrati
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Writing as Creation and Self-Discovery

  “Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery.”—Cristina Istrati Self-discovery draws many writers to the page. We don’t know what we think

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