Do You Ever Feel Like Life is One Big Conspiracy…to Wake You the F- UP!??
Do you ever feel like life is just one big conspiracy to wake you the f* up from your distractions and habits?
How To Meditate: Distraction In Meditation Doesn’t Matter
What is most wonderful about this whole process is that even when you find yourself getting swept away and coming back to your meditation after what seems like hours, you can use that "coming back" as your meditation practice. That is, the practice of meditation means getting used to practicing even as your thoughts and emotions arise and you find yourself getting distracted.
Why Meditate? Are You Tired of Being Angry, Sad, Jealous, or…Exhausted?
Do your feelings and emotions rule you? If you're like me or if...you're human, then you've probably experienced anger, sadness, jealousy (or envy?), or emotional exhaustion. And, if you're like me, you're happy and grateful when those emotional states and feelings go away, right?! What do you do when you experience strong emotions? How do you deal with difficult feelings that just won't go away? What do you do when these experiences persist even when you try to push them away?
What Is Meditation Anyway, And Why (should you) Meditate?
What is meditation anyway? (Do you get tired of me asking this?) Do people even know what meditation is? What I hear when I talk with people in my day-to-day life are things like, "Learning to meditate takes too long," and, "I tried but couldn't stop thinking," and, "I'm not religious." Yikes! People don't know what the hell meditation is! Here are a few things meditation isn't. If any of them are familiar to you, welcome to the club. If some of these seem obvious, read on. Most people get hung up on what they believe meditation is and never [...]
RN.FM Radio Interview: Using Meditation to Unleash Your Career
This week's Meditation Tip of the Week will be preempted with a special announcement: It's radio interview time!! In the spirit of helping others to help others to help themselves, I'd like to encourage you all to listen in to the live radio interview that will be happening on Monday, August 6th, at 9pm EST. If you can't listen to the live broadcast, please feel free to listen to the archived interview, it's sure to be an entertaining evening. RN.FM Radio is the brainchild of Keith Carlson and Kevin Ross, two nurse-entrepreneurs, who are working to empower nurses to speak [...]
Can Meditation Change the World?
And can nursing change the world...? I have to say that somewhere in my heart, I hold the aspiration to "change the world." Not in a Gandhi or Mother Theresa kind of way; those individuals are as rare as stars in the daylight. I'm thinking more about making a small contribution to the world, something that can make a difference to a few people who can then in turn, bring benefit to others. As a nurse, it's easy to get caught up in the "caring" aspect of nursing while forgetting that every time you care for someone from a "meditative" [...]
How To Meditate: Ten Reasons Not to Meditate!
This post is inspired by my friend Erric Solomon, blogger and administrator on the site, What Meditation Really Is. His post, Ten Reasons Why We Should Never Meditate, inspired me to write a similar post. I know that this site is loaded with advice and how to meditate, where to meditate and why you should meditate. But...maybe you shouldn't meditate. Maybe meditation is really a waste of time, a waste of time that you could be using for other things like surfing the internet, watching TV or playing video games (the list goes on, doesn't it?!) Here is a list, [...]
On Meditation and Compassion: Is it Only a Dream…That There’ll Be No More Turning Away….?
What Stops You in Your Tracks? I've always been a sucker for guitar solos, especially ones that invoke a strong emotion of sadness or intensity. For me, when the message of the music hits the heart of the lyrics, it brings me to a state of stillness or reflection...similar to meditation. When I think of something that can stop me in my tracks, something that causes me to catch a glimpse of something beyond myself, music stands out clearly in my mind. What about you? James Joyce used the phrase of "aesthetic arrest" to describe a state where [...]
Meditation and Its Regulatory Role on Sleep
If you want the greatest benefits from your sleep, whether eight-hours of uninterrupted sleep, or a four-hour insomniac’s sleep, you've got to meditate!
How to Meditate, How to Die, Part 2 – Even Famous Rapper – Buddhists Die!
Meditate - This post is dedicated to Adam "MCA" Yauch, Co-Founder of the Beastie-Boys, devoted husband to his wife Dechen, and father to his daughter Tenzin