Mindfulness

When learning how to meditate or practicing meditation, we often focus on technique. We learn what to do in meditation.. Technique matters, but how we meditate […]

Meditation is often associated with relaxation, but sometimes meditation simply isn’t relaxing. In fact, research finds that stress-reduction is consistently one of the top reasons people […]

A few weeks ago, we talked about mindfulness of mind in one of our meditation groups (recording of the meditation and talk below). Then, our most […]

If you’ve heard the teaching, “no mud, no lotus,” you perhaps have been reading some Thich Nhat Hanh. Imagine the lotus. It grows in murky water. […]

This is a topic I hesitate to write about, but here I go. We’ll be covering some signs of deep meditation here, specifically when it comes […]

Many years ago, I spent my first weekend at Deer Park Monastery, a Vietnamese Zen center in Southern California. I was introduced to the practice of […]

We all meditate for a reason. Sitting in silence for a period every day isn’t just for fun. We may be hoping to free ourselves from […]

10 Simple Mindfulness Practices for Couples That Improve Your Emotional Connection People fall apart not because they don’t love each other anymore, but because they lose […]