Category: mental-health
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The Hidden Key to Informal Meditation: Unlock Your Brain’s Urge to Be Happy Anytime, Anywhere
I love my formal meditation. It’s taken me more than a few years to get there, but I love connecting every morning to a basic sense of okayness that is always there. I find this easiest to recognize early in the day when my body is still and my mind is free of distractions. Informal…
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How I Built My Wisephone
A little over ten years ago, I had what my charming meditation teacher calls a nervous breakthrough. I enjoyed my job as a freelance journalist and book critic in 2012, but the smartphone had ruined everything. The newspaper that had been the backbone of my income folded. Glossy thick magazines, now skeletal, were paying half…
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The One Tool We Need To Thrive
About 20 years ago a group of neuroscientists put a young monk into an fMRI machine because they wanted to see if his brain behaved any differently than ordinary western brains. What they saw was so unusual that they had to take their system apart to make sure there were no glitches to explain it.…
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Never mind the mindfulness
5 key differences between awareness meditation and mindfulness meditation I remember my first experience of awareness meditation like I remember the feeling of riding a bike without training wheels. Meditation master, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, used a Tibetan singing bowl for two very short guided meditations. In the first, the instruction was simple and clear: “Listen…
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