Meditation can help you learn to focus and encourage awareness in how we show up in the world, impacting mental and physical health, relationships, and more. It can lead to a higher purpose and confidence, as long as it's not taken to the extreme like getting addicted to plastic surgery.
The speaker shares his experience with open awareness meditation and how it helped him become friends with his panic, leading to it eventually disappearing. He goes on to talk about teaching this meditation practice and becoming an accomplished author and abbot.
While many people start their meditation practice with increased focus on their interoceptive awareness, it's important to find a balance and not become too focused on bodily sensations to avoid being intrusive in daily activities. Some people may benefit from practicing more exteroceptive awareness meditation techniques such as walking meditation.
The practice of breathing in gratitude and breathing out fear can transform us into better leaders, friends, family members and happier, healthier people. This podcast explores how gratitude and courage can be cultivated through meditation and daily practice, even for those who do not consider themselves natural optimists.
The speaker describes their experience attending a retreat to learn meditation and how it was motivated by their friends' success in startups. They express frustration during hour-long meditations and their desire to strengthen their mind.
Even just a couple of minutes of clear, focused meditation can have a powerful impact on your day and your mental state, whether you are an actor or not.
The podcast discusses affordable meditation options for beginners, including an inexpensive program and an app that features 10 bits of guided meditation. It compares learning how to meditate to learning a new instrument.
The podcast talks about a unique meditation technique, where one needs to imagine negative thoughts and feelings while inhaling instead of thinking happy thoughts.
This podcast discusses how trait changes can affect your day-to-day headspace, and provides a tip to speed up your trackpad every month to make a lasting change. The hosts also touch on the topic of scrolling habits.
This podcast episode discusses the benefits of guided meditation for mental focus and explores interesting ideas, including those of Donald Hoffman. The episode also includes an advertisement for Element, an electrolyte supplement for low-carb diets.
Matthew Ricard, a Buddhist monk, has been officially declared as the happiest man on earth after scans of his brain showed the highest level of gamma waves, associated with attention, memory, learning, and happiness, ever recorded by science. Researchers have also found fewer signs of aging in his brain than his peers, more than 10 years after the initial studies were conducted.
This podcast episode discusses the benefits of guided meditation, prayer, and devotionals for introducing different thoughts and clearing the mind. The host also shares a metaphor about finding inner peace amidst the chaos of daily life.
The speaker shares his experience traveling through Asia and meditating with various monks. He emphasizes the importance of finding inner peace and detaching oneself from negative thoughts.
A person expresses difficulty in finding time for traditional meditation practices due to busy schedules, citing personal experiences with therapy and lack of free time.
This podcast discusses the benefits of meditation, including cultivating compassion and improving innate human qualities. The proper instruction for loving-kindness meditation is also explained, emphasizing that it's okay to have desires and not to be too hard on oneself during meditation.
Meditation or sitting down and thinking about the intention that one wants to pursue might not be for everyone but it can help in putting oneself in the perspective of achieving that goal and help solve problems; it can have a positive impact on the mind.
The podcast discusses the importance of morning meditation to avoid distractions and negative influences that come from social media and instead focus on improving oneself through self-help books and positive education.
In this podcast, experts discuss the various benefits of practicing meditation, including reduced stress and improved mental clarity.
Join us for a sound journey of repeated syllables as we explore the power of rhythm and repetition in meditation and mindfulness.
