“While Meditating I Get Lost in My Thoughts. I’m Failing, Right?” Wrong!

Mindfulness is the optimal interaction between attention and peripheral awareness. -- Culadasa Have you ever tried to meditate? 🙂 If so, you probably know that, once one has chosen an anchor, like the breath, a mantra or body sensations, the basic instruction consists in bringing the attention back to it over and over again. What normally happens …

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Mindfulness Meditation: What Are the Benefits for Your Brain?

One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our brain’s firing patterns, as well as the power to shape the architecture of the brain itself. ― Daniel J. Siegel Once upon a time, prehistoric human beings lived in the wild, …

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