By JoAnna Hardy — 2019
JoAnna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
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Meditation can reduce anxiety and stress. Here are tips on how to meditate for beginners.
By meditation we mean something very basic and simple that is not tied to any one culture.
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Consider doing something nice for your poor, flustered brain. Don't know how to meditate? Neither did we! So we asked Andy Puddicombe, the cofounder of Headspace and the voice on its app, to write this basic script. Have a friend read it to you slowly, setting a timer for 10 minutes.
Training the mind, meditating, being mindful, or whatever else we choose to call it only works if we actively engage with it. More than that, it only works if we practice it regularly, preferably on a daily basis with a considered, gentle discipline.
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Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.
Meditation has a built-in problem that needs solving, the problem of noncompliance. Countless people have taken up the practice, motivated by the benefits of meditation supported by literally thousands of studies.
Kristin Neff guides us through a twenty-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.