Untangling emotions The last year my father was alive coincided with my recovery from a major depressive episode during which I had nearly killed myself. He and I spent his
The 5 Conditions During the meditation leader training I took at the Sage Institute for Creativity & Consciousness, they introduced us to “The 5 Conditions,” another way to look at
How to meditate on emotion How do you deal with emotions that come up in mindful movement practice? The real question is, “When emotions arise, how do you infuse that
Taking the Wrong Medicine Shinzen often talks about the temptation to do what’s easy or comes naturally. He calls it, “taking the wrong medicine.” If for example you prefer guided
Use What Arises Earlier on this blog (and in the book Make Every Move a Meditation) you learned a wider variety of awareness techniques and another splendid thing about meditation
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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
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.
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
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
