The Daily Mind
Daily Steps To Mindful Living
If you’d like to improve your focus and concentration, consider practicing Gassho meditation. This particular meditation technique was developed by Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the Reiki system of healing. Here’s how to do Gassho meditation.
You’ve heard of the yamas—specifically ahimsa, satya, asteya, and brahmacharya. The last yama is aparigraha, or non-attachment. But what is the principle of aparigraha?
[Read more…] about What is the Principle of Aparigraha?The Lunar New Year is the beginning of a calendar year where months are marked by moon cycles. Now that we’ve entered a new year, we can look forward to planting seeds of good health, wellbeing, and prosperity. Here’s a lunar new year meditation for good fortune.
Integrating loving kindness in your meditation practice helps improve emotional health, increases compassion and empathy, and heals your relationships. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here’s a meditation that shows you how to send loving kindness to your partner.
Taking time to appreciate yourself can improve not only your relationships with others, but it can also brighten your outlook on life itself. Below is a meditation script for appreciating yourself.
Mindfulness meditation can seem intimidating and inaccessible. Sitting down for several minutes at a time can seem unappealing to most people, especially since it entails confronting your thoughts. But does mindfulness mean controlling your thoughts?
Contrary to popular belief, mindfulness means letting go of your thoughts and allowing your mind to simply run free. When we realize that it is the ego that traps us and that our true identity is our pure consciousness, we release ourselves from our fears, traumas, and negative thought patterns.
Here’s a little breakdown, for you to understand it better.
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