I’m very pleased to publish this adaptation from Meg Salter’s new book Mind Your Life, which you can get on Amazon. ~ MWT by Meg Salter Why do different people respond to stress so differently?… Read More »The Seven Muscles of Resilience
from Brown University Though it has gained popularity in the West as medically and psychologically beneficial, meditation can produce a much wider variety of outcomes, not all of them calm and relaxing, according to a… Read More »Study Documents Range Of Challenging Meditation Experiences
Pragmatic dharma teacher and host Michael W. Taft feel the power of the dark side, talk about nirvana, deconstruct the concept of nirvana, dive deep into the reality of death, look at the denial of… Read More »Masters of Oblivion, with Kenneth Folk
Pragmatic dharma teacher Kenneth Folk and host Michael W. Taft look at suffering machines, ways to suspend the necessary conditions for suffering, The Terminator, state chasing, and getting the cosmic joke. Kenneth Folk is an… Read More »The Cosmic Joke – with Kenneth Folk
Pragmatic dharma teacher Kenneth Folk and host Michael W. Taft discuss what it means to be mindful, various definitions of being mindful in the moment, the trouble with remaining mindful during an entire sit, and… Read More »Am I Mindful Right Now? with guest Kenneth Folk
by W. T. Johnson They don’t want you to be still. They don’t want you to be contented. They don’t want you to know yourself. Harsh as it may be, they don’t even want you… Read More »The Anarchist’s Guide to Mindfulness
by Sean Wilson Fargo Thirty years old on the other side of the world, I was hot on the trail for something profoundly meaningful in my life. It was so close I could taste it.… Read More »The Birth and Death of Monks
In a new study of a Brown University scholarly course on mindfulness that also included meditation labs, researchers found that the practice on average significantly helped women overcome “negative affect” — a downcast mood —… Read More »Mindfulness Class Helped Women, But Not Men, Overcome ‘Negative Affect’
From Science Daily Just 10 minutes of daily mindful mediation can help prevent your mind from wandering and is particularly effective if you tend to have repetitive, anxious thoughts, according to a study from the… Read More »Just 10 Minutes of Meditation Helps Anxious People Have Better Focus
Getting Mindful with Money by Jessica Graham [dropcap]T[/dropcap]his might come as a shocking disappointment to some, but waking up doesn’t mean you and your life become magically perfect. How many enlightened masters have also been… Read More »The Long Road to Financial Awakening
Want to learn how to focus and concentrate? Start here What do you think of when you think of focusing? For most people it means narrowing the attention to a single point. But actually there… Read More »Dimensions of Focus and Concentration
More than you ever wanted to know about the etymology and history of words for attentional stability by Michael W. Taft The Oxford English Dictionary defines the meaning of concentration as: The keeping of the… Read More »What Is the Meaning of Concentration and Focus?
How to Use Sensory Clarity to Deepen Your Mindfulness Meditation Practice—and Enliven Your Life by Michael W. Taft Once some friends of mine were trying to get pregnant, and were having a hard time. They… Read More »The Sensuality of Everyday Experience