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Metta meditation is a beautiful way to heal your mind so fear, sadness, and pain melt away. I have used this practice at various points in my life to regulate my emotions, and return my mind to tranquility. So, here are some metta teachings and a guided meditation that you can use today, to attain peace and happiness.
Continue reading “A Guided Metta Meditation for Healing the Mind”Writing can be used as a form of meditation and can be a wonderful source of insight. This method helps to reduce stress, quiet your mind, and focus your attention.
This article includes a short guided writing meditation and worksheet for you to try.
Continue reading “Writing Meditation: Writing as a Form of Meditation”What exactly is mindfulness and why should we care about it? Well, we often make up our minds about something within a very short period of time. Influencers, bloggers, writers, advertisers, salespeople, almost everyone who has ever tried to engage or convince anyone of anything, knows that they must have a compelling hook. This is the extent of mine and if you are still reading, great, but at any point that can change because of a single deciding factor: a thought.
If we picture “desire” as a tree and “clinging” as a rope, suffering arises when we tie one end of the rope around ourselves and the other end to the tree. The tree and the rope can exist, but it is our identification with them that binds us. Both desire and clinging arise in our consciousness and we can be aware of them because we are separate from them.
We do not need to tie ourselves to either but because we believe we can obtain something of value, we continue clinging even when it causes us pain.
Many people who have experienced “The Dark Night of the Soul” or have been meditating for a long time, are eventually drawn to self-inquiry. Often, questions like “who am I?” begin to arise.
I first stumbled upon self-inquiry (Atma Vichara) through a documentary about a sage from India, Sri Ramana Maharshi, who offered this practice to spiritual aspirants as a means for spiritual liberation. Self-inquiry removes the obstacles and illusions that stand in the way of self-realization.
In the beginning, I could not grasp the heart of this meditative practice but eventually returned to it. Now I understand that self-inquiry is one of the highest teachings for self-realization.
Knowing who you really are is freedom.
Continue reading “An Introduction to Self-Inquiry”It can be difficult to disentangle from thoughts when your mind is racing. In fact, it can feel like you’re aboard a thought-train that has no stops and the mind jumps from one thought to another. Likewise, it can be difficult to fall asleep, and overthinking can also result in inaction.
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