Meditation In Action

The question: 'How do I know if it's working?' is the sort of question that in popular representation would meet with side splitting bursts of laughter from a wizened old Zen master. Of course, ...

Many people find it hard to switch off when meditating or simply in order to relax. This is largely because ‘switching off’ is at odds with what we are normally expected to do to such an extent that ...

Meditation is not necessarily best experienced sitting in prescribed positions and following specific mantras or breathing techniques. In the contemporary Western world it is perhaps not best ...

Relaxing the mind presents itself as something of a problem in modern Western society, purely because it is so at odds with what is required of us in our day to day activity. To be completely relaxed ...

Sound has large part to play in meditation whether it is through the deliberate and concerted focus upon its presence or absence or whether it is through the inadvertent focus upon the beating of ...

A Mudra is a gesture, normally of the hand, employed in meditation to channel energy. Mudra's are used along with the 'asanas', or seated postures I yogic practices to help the practitioner to ...

Whilst to the new practitioner, meditation may resemble the act of sleeping in many ways, it is important that it is not treated as such. The level of awareness that one aspires to reach during ...

There is no universal specific diet for meditating, yet there are a number of factors you may wish to take into account before either embarking on a course of spiritual or secular meditation. ...

Meditation is relaxation. If you are not relaxed during meditation you are not really meditating! The aim of meditation is to clear the mind of all intrusive and irrelevant thoughts in order to reach ...