How to Meditate in a Noisy Environment

Developing a meditation habit can be difficult.  Even when you are focused on starting a session, the usual mental blocks begin to make their way into your head.  You wonder if the session will go well.  You get anxious wanting to make sure it’s perfect.

Well, as overwhelming as those thoughts may be, there is one thing that stops people before they even start. Noise.

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How to View Your Thoughts as Things and Why You Should

I grew up believing that thoughts are things.  It is a principle that my Mom instilled in me from a very early age, and it is probably why I am able to teach meditation.  This simple phrase is at the very heart of meditation.  Certainly there are other aspects, like breathing and posture, but this premise is why meditation is so effective for a variety of benefits.

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Using Meditation to Understand Who You Are

Let’s face it, everywhere you go lately, you hear the words mindfulness or meditation.  But I say that in the most exciting way.  When I was learning how to meditate back in the 80’s, people thought that meditation was just weird.  Outside of my progressive thinking family, others thought I was either in a cult or getting ready to join one. Nothing was further from the truth.  There were even some people that thought meditation was witchcraft.

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