Walks Within

I have several practices that I do on a regular basis: yoga, journal writing, and meditation. Over the holidays, and the time leading up to the holidays, my discipline at maintaining these practices has been slipping. As someone with a history of procrastination, I have had any number of reason...

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Yule, Hannukah, Ramadan or Kwanzaa,May the growing Light bless you with Peace, Love and Joy this holiday season.Want to learn more about these different holidays?  ReligiousTolerance.org has a great write up describing the different celebrations at this time of ye...

The Peaceful Woman has recently begun Meet-Ups throughout the US and Canada.  The premiere meet-up theme was, “When you can’t access Peaceful, reach for Chocolate!”At first this sounds like a sales pitch for Hershey’s, but when you get past that, it is really a metaphor to...

Last night we had our annual Solstice Celebration, “Banish the Dark.”  It was a much smaller group than we have sometimes had, and yet we had an excellent meal cooked by my wonderful husband, and some good discussion.After dinner, we turned off all the lights, and the fire in the fire...

As 2009 winds to a close, so many of us eat way to much over the holidays, and make resolutions for the coming year to get physically fit.  But what about our mental fitness? Patt Lind-Kyle offers an easy way for us to strengthen our “mental muscle.”  And yes, it involves some meditat...

Did you know the simple act of walking can be a form of meditation?Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD. explains how in the following article from EVliving.comMany people have been indoctrinated to believe walking is a chore, therefore, it is something to be avoided. People look for the closest parking s...

When I tell people that I write guided meditations, I get a lot of smiles and nods.  Most people have heard of or tried some form of meditation, but don’t know exactly what “guided” meditation is.I gave this explanation to a couple of colleagues a few weeks ago, and around their...

Having three very active boys of my own, I know how challenging it can be to get them to lay still for ten seconds, let alone long enough learn to meditate! Keira Adams offers some useful tips in the following article:Taking some time to collect your feelings before or after a full day of work or...

Learn more about the different types of music available to help with meditation in this article by Ben Pate. Meditation With Music provides a powerful element to the effort to bring balance to the mind and body. This is accomplished through meditative practices or in normal life situations. A pe...

How many ways can I procrastinate? Oh, there are many!  Just today, for example, I did laundry, and read email.  Then I had a whole bunch of errands to run with my husband, since this is a day off for me and two of the boys were in school.  One of the errands happened to be upgrading our old cell...

I had a conversation recently on facebook with a friend of mine about faith and trust.  I was planning to copy that conversation and edit it for today’s blog post.  Facebook is not letting me see that message thread right now, so instead I have to have faith and trust that I can rebuild my ...

The Meditation Society of Australia is one of my favorite meditation sites.  They offer a free online mediation course, and you can subscribe to get daily meditations and words of wisdom emailed to you every day.Here’s an excerpt about the online course: Our free online course features a st...

I had an aha! moment the other night as I was writing in my journal.  I’m feeling the need to go to another personal development conference or workshop.I’ve been to several really amazing ones in the past year, and I always come home feeling on top of the world and soaring with energy...

Here’s an article from the Beginning Meditation Guide about Guided Meditation:Guided meditations are usually experienced with the help of a meditation teacher, or by listening to a guided meditation recording…a guided meditation can be an experience that is not only relaxing, but one ...

From Angels on Your Shoulder by Susan GreggThe only way you can meditate improperly is by not giving yourself the gift of meditating regularly. A very simple way to meditate is to sit or lay comfortably in a quiet location. Start by taking a long, slow, deep breath. Gently focus your attention on...

It’s been a whole week since I posted anything.  Not for lack of inspiration, or being away from my computer, or being lucky enough to be on vacation.Last week, on Monday, I nuked my blog.It was pretty scary, let me tell you.  Mushroom clouds and everything!OK, no mushroom cloud.  But I thi...

By Frederic PremjiThere are so many advantages to meditation. When I first originally thought of this post, I indeed wanted to make it 100 benefits long (think big right!), however, I wasn’t sure I could find more than perhaps 20-25 benefits. Well, I made it happen! Meditation is as powerful as I...

Each of us has been given gifts to share with the world.  Sometimes these gifts are obvious, like a young person who hears a piece of music and can then play it back, or the person who can perform complicated math calculations in their head.Sometimes our gifts take some investigation to uncover. ...

Try “Monotations“.Spencer Burke has created a series of one image, one word reflections.  His purpose, in his own words, “is to encourage people to take a moment each day to reflect, center and meditate – using a simple image with one word to evoke understanding, love, sel...

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Each of us has been given gifts to share with the world.  Sometimes these gifts are obvious, like a young person who hears a piece of music and can then play it back, or the person who can perform complicated math calculations in their head.Sometimes our gifts take some investigation to uncover. ...

Try “Monotations“.Spencer Burke has created a series of one image, one word reflections.  His purpose, in his own words, “is to encourage people to take a moment each day to reflect, center and meditate – using a simple image with one word to evoke understanding, love, sel...

From 1000 Day Vow:“Starting a meditation practice can sometimes seem intimidating.  A lot of people I talk with think you have to go for hours a day, and you have to somehow be qualified to meditate, and that it’s possible to “meditate wrong.”  None of those are true. Too much baggage, and ...

Money is a form of energy.   It flows, just like water.  It is not good or bad…it is.This may trigger some of your belief programming about money. I encourage you to look at those beliefs, and reflect on whether they are still valid or not.This just came to my inbox today, and I really like...

Sacramento women coached in happinessby Liz Shenaut“To [Sacramento-based life coach Nancy] Kilgore, meditation is an integral part of each day’s happiness. She claimed meditation allows new ideas to enter one’s mind. During her presentation, Kilgore led a guided meditation with the lights o...

“Guided meditation and sharing of experiences has been shown to improve mood and decrease feelings of burnout, according to a study of primary care physicians from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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