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There's still time to enroll for an online course on insight meditation taught by vipassana meditation masters Sharon Salzberg and Joseph...
Meditation labyrinth rings in new year Every Near Year environmental artist Kirk Van Allyn, also known in art circles as Kirkos, builds an elaborate meditation labyrinth on the beach at Encinitas. He creates elaborate...
Blessing for a Happy Beautiful New Year The year 2009 has come and gone, with its medley of joys and pain--each of them enlightening experiences in their way.
In reviewing 2009, I have many things to appreciate....
Meditation, stress reduction, and anger management:...
NEW STUDY: THE STRESS OF ANGER AND AGGRAVATION CAN LEAD TO HEART ARRHYTHMIA
It's just as important for your physical wellbeing as it is for your spiritual life to dedicate...
Meditation, stress reduction, and anger management:...
NEW STUDY: THE STRESS OF ANGER AND AGGRAVATION CAN LEAD TO HEART ARRHYTHMIA
It's just as important for your physical wellbeing as it is for your spiritual life to dedicate...
Sometimes words alone are not enough to convey a feeling of the true fellowship we share with all life. It is at times like these that I often turn to music, exotic sound, monastic chant to experience healing meditation…
Many self-styled experts on the mind feel that spiritual practice like mantra or meditation is just about belief. Others come to realize that belief is an aspect of the mind that tries to grasp the unknown.
Always seeking to make what it doesn’t understand conform to something it can quantify, the lesser ego can often miss the healing message of
From one of Dalai Lama quotes featured in the Feeds section of my Belief Net page:
One of the most powerful visions I have experienced was the first photograph of the Earth from outer space. The image of a blue planet floating in deep space, glowing like the full moon on a clear night, brought
The teleconference meditation retreat held on Sunday, June 1st, entitled, Quantum Enlightenment, was a successful start as the first in a new series of TeleMeditation Retreats I have planned for this year.
I presented for a half-hour on some of the latest science on DNA and on the quantum principles in our own bodies that activate
Is there an easy way to achieve a better sense of focus and concentration? You know that when you’re disturbed, or it’s difficult to concentrate, it can affect your judgment and even
A comprehensive study of the insight meditation tradition can teach you many things, including the Buddha’s teaching on how happiness itself arises in consciousness. The Buddha developed and taught the insight meditation method of using the power of
Here is refreshing and inspiring music by the Japanese ensemble, Kokin Gumi, set here to stunning visual effects. The music is outstanding. You can listen to more simply beautiful and original compositions like this
In May, 2008, I launch my Meditation Portal three month course. I’m asking those taking the course, and other readers of the blog, to begin journaling about your experience and if you like, to
Where do you go when you’re looking for yoga equipment or clothing? Do you search for hard to find yoga books or unique meditation music? And, if you’re like me, wouldn’t you rather purchase from an organization that cares about the planet, and offers exceptional
You may be well aware of some or most of the clinical trials being done to document the benefits of guided imagery or meditation. Perhaps best known is its value in helping to reduce stress and to manage pain. It can also help patients recover quickly from surgery and other medical procedures.
Just as a transformer changes high voltage energy into usable form, so Shaktipat or Saktipata can perhaps be thought of as energy currents of kundalini, streaming through a person serving as the transformer to spiritually conduct it to others. This can be done either in person with sound or touch; by distance with sound; or by the charging of objects with sound and touch and given to another.
I’m Donna Ferri, and I’m launching TeleMeditation Retreats, my new series of ongoing teleconference meditation events. They begin in late Spring, and I’ll be posting