The Real Glory of Meditation Lies Not in Any Method But in Its Continual Living Experience of Presence

Every once in a while, I like to post something that comes from another site related to meditation, from someone doing research into mind-body medicine, or from someone else who teaches on methods of meditation. In this case, it is with extreme pleasure and reverence that I post the following "Glimpse of the Day," which comes from a great teacher of meditation and Tibetan Buddhism, Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. This short reminder, from the Glimpse of the Day, essentializes what is most precious about working with one's mind through the practice of meditation. [...]

2014-03-17T13:51:39-06:00By |Meditation|0 Comments
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Why Meditation Matters in Healthcare! Five Simple Reasons…

Meditation Matters in Everything that You Do...   Meditation matters in your life. It matters in your relationships and in your family. It matters when you drive the car and when you eat your meals. (starting to see the pattern here?) Meditation matters everywhere! It almost seems like I could start a Dr. Seuss rhyme here, "...in a park, on a train, in the dark, in the rain!..." Previous posts on this site, as well as posts on other sites like What Meditation Really Is, The Promise of Mindfulness Meditation, and even on Richer Life, have stressed the importance of [...]

2016-01-12T17:17:30-07:00By |Nursing|1 Comment
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Politics Getting to You? Meditate on Compassion – Four Steps…

Can meditation on compassion change the way that we view politics? Regardless of our political inclinations or leanings, we are all subject to the political fracas that erupts years before Presidential elections, and that is almost ongoing in the general and special elections within the local political arena. Do you ever get the impression that many of these politicians, regardless of their party, don't have any idea of how badly we all want things to change for the benefit of everyone? For instance, I don't think that any of us want Medicare to disappear, leaving the elderly in dire straits. [...]

2014-08-25T17:45:31-06:00By |Compassion, Meditation|1 Comment
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Stock Market Ups and Downs? Meditate…Seriously!

Emotional ups and downs? Stock market ups and downs? Is there a difference? Can meditation alleviate the inner turmoil of the external ups and downs? Wow; this site is about meditation in general, and about meditation is the healthcare field in particular. So, what's this post about the stock market got to do with anything? (<----For those of you needing advice on the stock market, this post links to Robert Pagliarini's column. Robert is a great guy who invests his time and resources in the Band of Brothers, previously featured on this site.) I don't know about you, but even [...]

2011-09-29T17:59:49-06:00By |Meditation|0 Comments
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Why Practice Meditation Every Day? Five Great Reasons

What Is the Benefit of Practicing Meditation? On this site, we've discussed how to deal with thoughts, emotions, sensations...even sleepiness while trying to meditate. Those are the "how tos," but how about the why? Why meditate? Or, even if we know the why of meditation, why practice? This question is partially answered when you consider the obstacles (mentioned above) to our meditation; if we don't practice, how do we know whether we're progressing on our path? Almost daily, I experience situations where I wish that my "meditative mind" was in charge instead of my habitually distracted mind. Does this ever [...]

2012-11-28T12:40:00-07:00By |Meditation|3 Comments
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Seven Things to Remember When Learning to Meditate

When we're first learning to meditate, we may find ourselves lost in thoughts, sensations and/or emotions. Previous posts on this site have addressed how to work with these distractions and obstacles and I encourage you to read them to find out more. There are some things that we can do to bring ourselves, immediately, back to our practice, whether that practice is a formal one, or an informal one. For the sake of ease, I decided to share the ten things that I remember when I become distracted by the many things that my mind seems to follow. I hope [...]

2011-09-13T20:08:03-06:00By |Meditation|0 Comments
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Using Meditation to Retrain Our Attention – A Great Video Presentation!

Daniel Goleman - Part 1 from WhatMeditationReallyIs on Vimeo. I just finished watching this video-presentation by Daniel Goleman and what strikes me most is the simplicity of the phrase that he uses, "attentional retraining." In these two words, we are reminded of what is is that we're working with during meditation - our attention - and what we're doing - retraining it. Sometimes, when we're working with our mind and practicing meditation, something as simple as remembering the phrase, "attentional retraining" is all that it takes to bring us back to our practice. Suppose that I sit down to meditate, [...]

2011-09-08T17:43:32-06:00By |Meditation, Mindfulness|0 Comments
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Meditation Isn’t About Arriving Somewhere; You’re Already There!

A colloquialism favored in the state of Maine is that you can't get there from here, or - spoken as a Mainer  "you can't get they-ah from he-ah." But, why talk about Maine when the topics of this blog are mindfulness, awareness and compassion at the bedside? (with bits of the mundane daily stuff tossed in for grins) The "from here" that we work with when beginning meditation is our ordinary - some might say deluded - mind. And, the "there" that we're working to achieve to some degree is a state free from delusions, free from distractions. The premise of [...]

2011-09-06T17:45:45-06:00By |Meditation|0 Comments
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