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How to Totally Relax in Meditation - The Way of Meditation. A lot of people start meditation because they are under the impression that it helps to relax and reduce stress, but meditation can be incredibly frustrating and becomes stressful and anything but relaxing.

How to Totally Relax in Meditation - The Way of Meditation

People can very easily quit meditation and say it doesn’t work; but the problem is taking our normal attitude of using willpower and aggression into the meditation instead of an attitude of surrender and neutrality. As Meditation Master Chogyam Trungpa says: 6 Universal Principles That Will Set You Free. 1 – Action You, in the sense of being everything, have constructed the human experience.

6 Universal Principles That Will Set You Free

You experience yourself through an individualized experience of taking directed action. The Writer's Challenge: Using Author Pen Names on Facebook - and Getting Locked Out! Boy do I have a story to tell - and fortunately, the solution that finally worked to get my Facebook access back after they locked my access to both my profile and Page due to my not using my "real name.

The Writer's Challenge: Using Author Pen Names on Facebook - and Getting Locked Out!

" (Shoshanna Evers has been my pen name since 2009, which makes it legally my real name in 46 states just by the fact that I use it everywhere - and I have an Idaho-state DBA (doing business as) Shoshanna Evers). Backstory: I had a Shoshanna Evers profile from 2010 that was converted into a "Like Page" when I couldn't add more friends. 8 Things I Say Most Often To My Therapy Clients - mindbodygreen.com. I've been working with clients for 46 years, so of course, there are things I say over and over — even to the same person and even in the same session!

8 Things I Say Most Often To My Therapy Clients - mindbodygreen.com

That's because there are certain things we each need to pay attention to, over and over. The process that I use is called Inner Bonding, which teaches people how to love themselves. As loving themselves becomes a way of life, their anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, anger, fear, addictions and relationships gradually heal. 15 Questions To Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets. As a loving parent, it is important to instill in your kids the right mindset and attitude.

15 Questions To Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets

Both determine how your child interprets the world. And asking the right questions encourage behavior that brings positive change and also allows for the best use of available resources. As the saying goes, where your mind goes, energy flows. One of the ways to encourage children to develop a positive mindset and practice it is to talk to them honestly and ask them leading questions. British Mindfulness Institute. I heart intelligence 10 Powerful Insights from Eckhart Tolle.

3 Buddhist Beliefs That Will Rock Your World (And Make You Much Happier!) You don't have to practice yoga or follow an Ayurvedic diet to benefit from Buddhist ideas (but if you do, more power to you).

3 Buddhist Beliefs That Will Rock Your World (And Make You Much Happier!)

So whether or not you think about balancing your dosha, here are three powerful elements of Buddhist philosophy, "The Noble Truths," and how you can incorporate them into every day. They might just change your life... 1. Meditation » Blog Archive » Rising Above Thought. Your mind is an instrument, a tool.

Meditation » Blog Archive » Rising Above Thought

It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true.