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Creativity Meditation

Meditation Helps You to Be Creative

Meditation is a powerful practice that can help us to be creative. Meditation helps us to focus our attention, and focused attention skills are essential for engaging in creative expression. The practice can help us to let go of all of the creative anxiety, self-doubt, harsh inner critic voice, and other hindrances to creativity. In […]

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Meditation Mindful Writing

Focused Writing Meditation for Writers

Focused writing. It’s what all writers long for. I know from personal experience that writing can be fun and focused and flow with ease. Whoever said writing is difficult wasn’t practicing writing meditation!  To help you begin to access focused writing, I’d love to teach you a quick breathing meditation practice to help you calm […]

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Mindful Writing

Writing Meditation as a Mindful Listening Practice

Meditation is the language of the soul. Writing meditation helps us to become still and quiet long enough to practice mindful listening and allow our soul to speak. In the focused and attentive moments of our practice, if we pay attention, we will hear the quiet whisperings of what matters most, the longings of our […]

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Mindful Writing for Healing From Difficult Times

Mindful Writing for Healing can help to bring a sense of order from chaos and help us to heal from life’s inevitable difficult times.

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Mindful Writing Practice as Meditation

Mindful writing practice as meditation involves the art of writing as mindfulness practice. It is a powerful undertaking for writers and nonwriters alike that can help us become less reactive to thoughts. Think of it as a mindful journaling practice. When we practice mindful writing, we allow whatever thoughts arise to come and go as […]

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Meditation Mindfulness

What is Mindfulness? Awareness of the Present Moment with Kindness

Mindfulness is being fully present in whatever is happening in the moment.

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Meditation

How to Meditate for Peace of Mind

Learning how to meditate on a regular basis has helped me to feel such a greater sense of peace, happiness, and wellbeing. That’s one of the many reasons that I love teaching other people how to meditate. I’ve been teaching meditation for 30+ years, and one of the most frequent questions that I am asked […]

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Meditation Mindfulness

Mindfulness for Anxiety: How to Feel Calm

Mindfulness for anxiety is a powerful practice for helping you to feel calmer and more centered and at peace. Pranayama, or mindful breath control practices, can be useful for calming the energy when you’re feeling anxious. Contrary to what your mind would have you believe, there are things you can do to impact your energy […]

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Mindfulness

Positive Emotions to Support Flourishing

Positive emotions and experiences include peace, gratitude, interest, awe, inspiration, and joy. When we experience positive experiences, our minds really open up. It expands our perspective, allows us to appreciate the world around us, and our peripheral vision expands so that we are literally, and figuratively, able to see more. If you notice in your […]

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Meditation Mindfulness

Mindfulness of the Body

Mindfulness of the body is one of the four foundations of mindfulness –mindfulness of body, mindfulness of feelings, mindfulness of the mind and mindfulness of the mental formation. The first step of instruction related to mindfulness of the body is mindfulness of breathing. Begin by choosing an environment that allows you to focus your attention. Sitting […]