meditative awareness Archives - Minding The Bedside

For Black Friday…Meditate! How to Use Meditation to Spend Less…

Well, it's that time of year again. Time to...meditate? No, shop! Or, is it time to meditate on why we shop, why we consume hoping to find some outer reward to our thirst for something...new, different? Time to find happiness in...Target? Nordstroms? Amazon? How often have you felt an urge to go out and buy something, only to find that after you'd bought whatever it was, there was still a hollow place inside? Have you ever been really stressed out and felt like a little "retail therapy" was just the thing that you needed to remove your negative thinking? What [...]

2021-11-30T14:15:00-07:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation|0 Comments

Meditation Tip of the Week: Meditate Whenever You Think About…Meditation!

MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK IS A WEEKLY SERIES OF EASY TO REMEMBER, SHORT AND BASIC TIPS ON MEDITATION. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, IS IT HELPFUL? Meditate Whenever You Think About Meditation Do you ever find yourself thinking about meditating, or thinking about the fact that you haven't been meditating? Do you ever wish that you'd remembered to meditate? Well then, just meditate! Think about it for a minute, since you've taken the time to occupy your mind with the thought of meditation, why not apply that reminder to the moment - [...]

2019-10-24T13:51:26-06:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation Tip of the Week|4 Comments

Meditation Tip of the Week: Meditate Under Water…Or Biking Up a Mountain!

MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK MEDITATION TIP IS A WEEKLY SERIES OF EASY TO REMEMBER, SHORT AND BASIC TIPS ON MEDITATION. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, IS IT HELPFUL? In the previous weeks, the "Tip of the Week" has focused a lot on how to meditate in our daily lives. This week's tip will be similar; meditate under water, or on a tightrope!! When we begin to get comfortable with our meditation practice we can get lazy about it and only practice under the best of circumstances. But, that's not what meditation is about. It's about learning to [...]

2019-10-24T13:49:24-06:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation Tip of the Week|Comments Off

Meditation Tip of the Week: Meditate on What Scares You! Seriously!!

MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK IS A WEEKLY SERIES OF EASY TO REMEMBER, SHORT AND BASIC TIPS ON MEDITATION. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, IS IT HELPFUL? Meditation works easily when we're sitting on our cushion, free from any immediate worries or concerns...and even then it can be exceedingly difficult! But what about when we're in a state of fear or panic, what then?? As we discussed in the Tip of the Week two weeks ago, "Don’t Wait Until the House is Burning Down…," it's vital that we know how to meditate before [...]

2019-10-24T13:48:21-06:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation Tip of the Week|2 Comments

How to Watch the Cloud-Like Thoughts Within Our Mind

MEDITATION TIP OF THE WEEK ...IS A SERIES OF SHORT, EASY TO REMEMBER, AND BASIC TIPS ON HOW TO MEDITATE. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, IS IT HELPFUL? When Meditating, Understand Thoughts to be Like Clouds Minding one's life mindfully, aware, and compassionately comes from realizing the changing nature of our thoughts. We do this by turning the mind inward, transforming the stormy arisings of thoughts, emotions, and feelings by recognizing them to be impermanent phenomena like passing clouds in the sky. Minding one's life mindfully comes from realizing that whatever thoughts and emotions may be stirred up [...]

2019-10-24T13:44:49-06:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation Tip of the Week|3 Comments

Compassion Doesn’t Have to Hurt, in Nursing or Otherwise

Compassion Doesn't Have to Hurt, in Nursing or Otherwise Albert Einstein wrote: A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, his feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and [...]

2021-08-16T20:24:18-06:00By Jerome Stone|Nursing|11 Comments

When Meditating, Don’t Give in To Distraction – 10 Tips On How to Stay Focused…

Distraction Isn't Your Enemy! Considering that the main objective of meditation is to arrive at a state of non-distraction without altering our mind, how do we deal with the fact that distraction seems to be the one thing that prevents us from meditating? Is there some easy way to deal with our tendency to get distracted? After all, we'd probably all be excellent at meditation if it weren't for the fact that we get so distracted during our meditation. And, it's this distraction that can become the most frustrating and cause us to abandon our meditation practice in favor of [...]

2019-02-26T13:42:40-07:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation, Mindfulness|5 Comments

Losing Compassion at the Bedside? Five Instant Tips….

COMPASSION ISN'T OUTSIDE OF YOU Compassion isn't something foreign to our minds and our hearts. It isn't something "out there" that we have to get or acquire. And, it isn't something that we need to learn (although we may need to remember it at times). Granted, there are times when we feel that to find even the smallest compassionate impulse for certain patients requires of us the most Herculean effort. There are also times when, either due to the amount of stress that we're experiencing, or the number of patients we're dealing with, it doesn't feel like there's "...enough to go [...]

2019-01-17T14:22:08-07:00By Jerome Stone|Compassion, Nursing|7 Comments

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.

2017-04-10T13:49:25-06:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation|16 Comments

Is Mindfulness the Same as Meditation?

t's funny but there are so many concepts and ideas about what meditation is that we can get caught up in the definition of it all while forgetting to practice. Does it matter what you call it if you're doing it? Or, do you need to have a word for it to understand what you're doing?

2019-02-26T13:42:25-07:00By Jerome Stone|Meditation|5 Comments