The speaker discusses the intense beauty and appreciation for life felt during meditation and the similarity between this experience and a scientific experiment. They also mention how remembering the joyous moments during low times can be comforting.
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.
Meditation can either make things better or worse depending on whether or not we become more present to interoception or dissociation and our bias is one of dissociation versus interoception. Being mindful of your bias in meditation can help you gain the intended benefits of meditation without harmful consequences.
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 a guided meditation practice that involves envisioning a safe space and a younger version of oneself, and uses visualization techniques to alleviate feelings of guilt or shame.
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.
Dan Harris discusses his experience with therapy and his eventual discovery of the science behind meditation, which has been proven to have multiple health benefits including lowering blood pressure and boosting the immune system.
The use of mantras during meditation allows the mind to quiet and experience a sense of coming home to one's true self.
The process of building a habit of meditation includes starting with a few minutes each day and gradually increasing it, rather than trying to meditate for a long time right from the beginning. One can also use apps like Headspace and have three-minute emergency sessions.
The speaker discusses the purpose of life as experiencing the infinite within the finite and shares how they processed their son's death through long hours of meditation.
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.
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.
Sharon Salzberg talks with Tim Ferriss about how people involved with meditation, addiction research and medicine, and plant medicine, as well as icons of sport, can overcome self-hatred.
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.
