Meditation
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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There’s a photograph that floats around the internet, some perfectly flexible person sitting in full lotus on a cliff at sunrise, spine like a...
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A few years ago I sat in a room full of people who all claimed to meditate daily. When I asked what their practice...
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I’ve started meditating at least four separate times in my life. The first three times, I quit within a month. Each time, the pattern...
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The first time I sat down to meditate, really meditate, not just sit with my eyes closed and think about what to make for...
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A Battlefield Is a Strange Place to Learn About Stillness I’ve always found it striking that the most profound teaching on meditation in the...
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For a long time, I used prayer and meditation interchangeably. They were both “the quiet thing I do with my eyes closed,” and I...
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I couldn’t meditate. I was sure of it. I’d sit down, close my eyes, and within thirty seconds my mind was composing grocery lists,...
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I used to think concentration was about willpower, gritting your teeth, forcing your mind to stay on one thing, pushing away every stray thought...
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The Number That Got My Attention When my doctor told me my blood pressure was 142/91, I didn’t panic, but I did sit up...
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Standing at the Sink at 10 p.m. I used to hate washing dishes. Not mildly dislike, genuinely resent it. Every evening, standing in front...
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