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Here we cover two vitally important things to keep in mind if you are just starting a meditation practice or continuing a pre-existing meditation practice. When NOT to get discouraged Here’s the first one: remember that the goal of any particular meditation “sit” is...

This article goes out to all of the deep thinkers, philosophers, spiritual seekers, existentialists and lovers of truth out there. Below we discuss one of the TOP reasons to have a meditation practice: to qualify your mind for insight and understanding. Meditation...

Let’s look at a very palpable (and most pleasant) effect of a regular meditation practice: stripping the “problematic-ness” out of the situations that you call your “problems.” In other words, with regular practice, things that felt beyond your capacity to handle with...

Here we will outline how to free yourself from one of the most common compulsions of the mind: judging. We’re talking about that incessant judgement of people, places and things. Here’s what we’ll cover: Why you’d want to cut down on judgmentalnessHow you can live...

There exists a type of meditation specifically designed to change patterns of negative thought (sweetening the mind), cultivate the qualities of love, and send that good, positive energy out into the world. The Buddhists refer to this type of meditation as...

Here is an insight that you can apply any time you feel negativity as you go throughout your day. This insight has the power to: take the edge off of the negativity,help you “digest” the emotion with more ease,Bolster your confidence in your ability to accommodate and...

You know that scene in The Matrix when Neo finds himself face-to-face with a spray of oncoming  bullets? He expertly handles the situation by slooooowing everything down and neutralizing the bullets. They drop to the ground like pebbles before they ever reach...

A capacity to focus is just one of the myriad byproducts of a meditation practice. Here we cover our mind’s tendency NOT to focus,the value of training it to focus,how meditation helps train your mind to focus. Either watch our video below, or read on. The crazy...

We have described meditation as an exercise that helps you develop “life skills” for your mind. Here we will look at life skill #2—sensitizing yourself to the subtleties (of experience): what these subtleties are,how meditation sensitizes you to them,the dangers of...

This is our first micro-meditation lesson as part of our 10-Day Chill Pill Challenge. Read 10 Micro Meditation Lessons Livestreamed from Facebook for an overview of the lessons and challenge. You can also watch the Live Stream replay of this lesson below. One of the...

Welcome to this very first installation of our 10-day Chill Pill Challenge. A series of 5-minute mini-lessons on meditation that are available as Facebook Live Streams and instructive blog articles—like this one. The objective is to help you use meditation to...

So here's what went through my mind yesterday evening at 5:15pm: "Oh, Jesus. Here he comes." Broad-shouldered, wild-eyed, screaming incoherently at the top of his lungs, the man a-few-sandwiches-short-of-a-picnic was coming straight at me on Connecticut Avenue. I did...

Do you like to feel good? Me too. But the vast majority of us are conditioned to extract "feel-goodness" from something out there. We rely on external circumstances and internal thoughts/emotions/sensations to "make us" happy. For those of you interested in...

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post—I hope the holidays went well for everyone, and happy new year. And a big welcome to those of you who are new to the Transformational Acupuncture blog. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a weeklong spiritual retreat...

Why do many people turn to meditation?  They are interested in relieving their suffering. Suffering comes in many forms—physical, emotional, and mental. As I mentioned in a previous article about finding a meditation style that is right for you, there are many...

When I first started meditating and studying spiritual philosophy in earnest, about 12 years ago, my goal was spiritual enlightenment. I clearly remember, in 2000, participating in a group meeting at the Heartwood Institute, a holistic healing training center where I...

Awareness Based on my own intensive process of healing through nutrition, I found that in the end, the most important part of the healing process came not as much from changing what I ate as from developing a greater awareness, or mindfulness, around the whole eating...