New Year Resolutions: a list of tasks to achieve and fulfill in the New Year. The promisses of our resolutions are beautiful, lofty and noble. The expectations are great. But on the way to their fulfillment we miss something and we quite often arrive at the next New Year with the same list of the […]
I have made a set of affirmation cards. Affirmation is abour ideal me. I wrote these bold statements about what I want to and should be, but what I am really not. The theory is that if I repeat these statements often enough I will become them. Does repetition of affirmations help? Does it really
You do your mindfulness with your body, like you do walking and dancing or swimming or even watching. Mindfulness is a body-mind activity with the stress on the body. It is misunderstanding that mindfulness meditation is some kind of intellectual activity, (it is non-intellectual one). It seems to be that because when we look at
What is your mind full of? If you pay attention you will find out that it is full aff thoughts and stories about your past and future. There is nothing wrong about it until you realize that they are there even when you don’t want them to be there and you don’t know how to stop this
We want benefits in our life. We want reward and pleasure. And I want to convince you that learning meditation is beneficial and rewarding. How to describe pleasure? Is it an object or is it rather a feeling we get by acquiring an object, position or state? Everybody has a list of things that bring
Mindfulness meditation teaches how to be present, how to redirect our attention to the here and now. I have discovered however that for many there is a fear of being present, as if the state of presence took away our precious memories and lofty plans. We are afraid of arriving into this realm as if danger awaited us there. The
What I want to achieve or get, what I am after and what comes to me in a natural effortless way is almost always inexplicable to me. Sometimes there are so many struggles involved in a process of finishing something . All that running and racing for getting and fixing is pretty exhausting. Meditation gives me
I love meditation. It is like a chocolate that I can eat without worrying about calories. It is like holidays without any costs. It gives me feeling of peace, relaxation and clarity. And I get all these simply by being present, connecting to my own body. It opens a wonderful space of opportunities, possibilities and
Our mind speaks with words. The never-ending monolog or imaginary dialog we have in our heads is verbal; the letters, the words, the grammar and the stories. Our intelligence uses this medium-the language to asses, to judge, to compare, to argue and to tell stories. But we are not only the speaking intelligence. There wouldn’t be
The vocabulary used by so called “alternative people” has been incomprehensible to me for a very long time. I knew the words, but their meaning was vague and unclear. Here are some examples: “empty your mind”, “open your heart”, “abandon your ego”. I simply didn’t know how to empty my mind, how to open my heart
