What is tai chi? Is it true that this ancient martial art, often referred to as a form of moving meditation, can impact the health of your mind, heart, bones, nerves, muscles, and immune system? In fact, the latest research out of Harvard supports these claims and more. Of course, Tai Chi masters have known this […]
OM037: Meditation & The Miracle Morning with Hal Elrod
Be grateful for adversity, for it forces the human spirit to grow. For surely the human character is formed not in the absence of difficulty but in our response to difficulty. ~Jim Rohn Have you ever come back from death? There aren’t a lot of people on earth who can say they’ve died and come […]
How Brainwave Entrainment Can Deepen Your Meditation
We are all practitioners. Whether we are just beginning to meditate or getting deeply into our meditation practice, we look for ways in which we can transform conflicts, wounds, stories, and beliefs that limit our capacity to function at our best. You may be familiar with practices in which the object of meditation is sound […]
OM036: Meditation And The Art Of Doing Nothing
I have come to feel that nothing is more tonic—more urgent, in fact—than simply doing nothing. ~Pico Iyer What is the art of doing nothing? Is it just a fancy spin on lazy navel gazing? Or is it, like many suggest, an important refresher for your brain and a profound contemplative practice? These days “doing nothing” is […]
How the Brain Changes When You Meditate
This post was originally published on mindful.org. Not too long ago, most of us thought that the brain we’re born with is static—that after a certain age, the neural circuitry cards we’re dealt are the only ones we can play long-term. Fast-forward a decade or two, and we’re beginning to see the opposite: the brain is […]