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10 Health Benefits of Mindfulness

by Stannah

“Developing countries have high, and increasing, issues with heart health, mental health problems, relationship breakdown and substance abuse because we live in a culture of busy-ne...

A Guide to Meditation

by Swami Shivapremananda

In the West, the word meditation, means a concentrated state of mind in serious reflection. The Latin root of the word meditation mederi means to heal. It is an effort to heal affl...

Application of Mindfulness for Work-Related Stress

by Dr William Van Gordon

According to the UK Health and Safety Executive, work-related stress results in a loss to the UK of 10 million working days each year and similar statistics are reported for the US....

Be Still on a Daily Basis

by Jason Chan

In this article the author discusses the benefits of being still. Sitting still, he says, for even five minutes a day, every day for a month, can begin to transform your life. It a...

Best Plants for Meditation and Healing

by J Parker’s Dutch Bulbs (Wholesale) Ltd

According to the statistics from Bupa Global, over 26% of UK adults meditate because of its healing benefits, with British men (30%) practising meditation almost twice as much as wo...

Choosing to Listen

by Dr Nirvana Tehranian

This article focuses on the importance of the present moment and listening – how or when do we listen, and to what we are listening. It also looks at why, when we are in a state of...

Creating a Sacred Space

by Roselle Angwin

There is a beautiful poem by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado and translated by Robert Bly, in which the jasmine-scented wind calls to the poet soul, offering its perfume of jasmin...

How I Met Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)

by Andreas Mamet

This is an account of the author’s spiritual journey, as well as of a real-world journey to Rishikesh, a spiritual centre in the Himalayas.

How Meditation Is Changing With The Times

by Linda Hall

Far reaching changes brought about by recent advances in technology and science have created fundamental shifts in the way meditation is perceived and practised. The enlightened age...

How Meditation Transformed My Life

by Elizabeth Garner

This article focuses on the power of meditation. The author shares how and why she got into meditation as well as its positive effect on her. She describes her initial experience...

How to Slow Time Down

by John Hendry

As I write, in September, a brochure has just arrived in the post emblazoned Christmas Gifts. OK, some of it’s proper forward planning, but we do seem to need something to look forw...

Introduction – A Mindfulness Guide for Survival

by Ruby Wax

If anyone had told us a few weeks before March 2020 that most of the world would be unable to leave their homes because a virus was going on a rampage, we would have said it was a b...

Living Mindfully

by Lee Ronald

Insight Meditation, also known as 'Vipassana meditation' centres around our conscious engagement with the breath. Its roots are in Buddhist teachings which have been circulating fo...

Meditation - A Practical Approach to the Art of Relaxed Awareness

by Martin J Handy

The author, a meditation teacher, emphasizes important aspects of his role, such as reassurance and encouragement, as well as the wide knowledge he needs to impart in terms of the ...

Meditation - a Way of Life

by Linda Hall

So much time is spent living in the relative dream worlds of the future or the past, we would do well to remember that both come from the present moment. The more we are able to li...

Meditation - Antidote to Stress

by Nancy Goudie

Nancy Goudie, public speaker, author, broadcaster, singer and teacher, looks at the possibility of alleviating stress through meditation.

Meditation & Mindfulness Toward Positive Transformation and Fulfilment

by Alex Montagu

We all exist in two different worlds. One is the external world; the other is our inner world. We tend to spend all of our time in the outer world but very little, if any, in our i...

Meditation for Health

by Lita de Alberdi

Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may e...

Meditation for Personal Transformation

by Jon Shore

This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to ...

Meditation for Self-Realization

by Carol Palmer

This article describes an ancient form of pure meditation, involving learning and practising given breaths. It is a deeper meditation than the meditative states that can be achieve...