Meditation
The Difference Between Stillness and Spacing Out in Meditation
It Took Me Years to Notice the Difference I’ll be honest about something that embarrasses me a little. For a solid stretch of my...
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Meditation is the meeting point of all three teachers on this site. Yogananda called it the highest form of activity a human being can perform. Neville’s SATS technique is meditation. Joseph Murphy’s bedtime prayer method is meditation. They all point to the same truth: when you quiet the conscious mind, the deeper mind becomes available.
This section offers practical techniques drawn from all three traditions — from beginners’ guides to advanced practices for anxiety, sleep, and conscious creation.
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It Took Me Years to Notice the Difference I’ll be honest about something that embarrasses me a little. For a solid stretch of my...
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My Body Was Running on a Chemical It Didn’t Need For most of my thirties, I lived in a state I considered normal: alert,...
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The Words I Couldn’t Take Back We were sitting at dinner, my oldest friend and I, and the conversation turned to a project she’d...
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For three years, falling asleep took me between forty minutes and two hours. I’d lie in bed, eyes closed, mind spinning, body tense, increasingly...
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The Gap Between Morning Practice and Real Life I have a morning meditation practice that I’m fairly consistent with. Twenty minutes before anyone else...
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I’ve Tried Them All, And I Keep Coming Back to This One I should confess something: I’m a serial meditation experimenter. Over the years,...
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My Hands Were Shaking in the Parking Lot Forty-five minutes before the biggest interview of my career, I was sitting in my car in...
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I meditated for three years before I hit the wall. Not the kind of wall where you can’t sit still (that one comes in...
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You’re Not Doing It Wrong I need to say this right up front because it’s the thing nobody tells you when you start meditating:...
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The Thing You’re Already Doing (But Not Paying Attention To) Right now, you’re breathing. You’ve been breathing since the moment you were born, and...
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