Eyes: You can close them if it is comfortable, but that can promote drowsiness or excessive mental activity. It is best to allow your eyelids to relax and half close. You should focus on the ground approximately 4 feet in front of you. Ears: To make sure your head, neck and spine are aligned properly, [...] Read more »
Other Tricks To Reduce Habituation
In my last post we discussed how meditation can reduce habitation in general, but in particular in the context of “stuff”, the things we covet, buy and own; how we can reduce the neurological process whereby you get bored with what you have and start to yearn for more. In this post I wanted to [...] Read more »
Don’t Buy Something, Just Sit There
Our brains do an odd thing. If we see, hear or do the same thing over and over again, we stop paying attention to it. We desensitise to it. This is called habituation. Have you ever gone into a room and thought, “something is different, but I am not sure what?” and then someone tells [...] Read more »
Why I Meditate
My mind goes at about a 1000 miles an hour. Always has. It’s exhausting. It is why I talk so much and so fast, it is a sort of escape valve to release the buildup of thought pressure. Thoughts and ideas come in and go out of my head so fast I can’t grab hold [...] Read more »
Meditation Guide Now Exclusively on Kindle
Don’t Do Something, Just Sit There! A Simple Introductory Guide to Mindfulness Meditation – Now Exclusively on Kindle. Do you want to learn to meditate but don’t know where to start? Click here to buy now: Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Mindfulness meditation is a powerful tool of personal change. What seems a deceptively simple process has the [...] Read more »
One Minute Meditation
Even if you have have a regular meditation practice (and if you don’t, I highly recommend that you cultivate one), you will find at times, in the hustle and bustle of life, yourself being swept away, distracted, harassed and flustered. At times like this I have developed a “one minute meditation” (although, in reality it [...] Read more »
Mindfulness Part 3: A Simple Meditation
OK, now you have had a go at just sitting still (how did you find it?), lets expand that to a bit more of a formal meditation. I know, I know, to some people the word “meditation” sends shivers down their spin, and they conjure up images of tie dye hippies all sat round chanting, [...] Read more »