By Tara Brach — 2017
Tara Brach discusses RAIN, a technique she frequently teaches to her students and also uses in her own life.
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Mindfulness teacher Jason Gant reflects on a heartfelt memory when he was able to lean on his deep practice and mindfully take action.
The breath is the foundation of every mindfulness practice, and it is also the foundation of life. Establishing a relationship with your breath, especially while pregnant, will have lasting effects for you and the child you are bringing into the world.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
Resilience expert Linda Graham shares three ways to use awareness and deep breathing to ground ourselves throughout the day.
In the past, I’ve felt kind of foolish every time I’ve tried morning meditation. I kind of tried to keep with a regular practice but it just wasn’t working for me.
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Meditation offers time for relaxation and heightened awareness in a stressful world where our senses are often dulled. Research suggests that meditation has the potential for more than just temporary stress relief.
The sequence of events in this practice are: focus, sustain attention, notice, and redirect attention back to the breath when it wanders. This is what we might call a "push-up" for your attention.