Posts Tagged ‘meditation’

How to Find Your Way Towards Consciousness and Calm

When Thinking Gets in the Way Lately I've written much about the chaotic mind, the propensity we have to over-think and the inability so many of us have to escape the internal noise, get out of our thoughts and find our way back to a little tranquility. Or as Happy Gilmour calls it, our Happy Place. Being constantly trapped in our stinkin' thinkin' can be a ticket to depression, anxiety and… Continue reading

April 14 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: anxiety, calm, consciousness, meditation, peace | 11 comments»

Meditate Regularly for a Great 2009!

I was a sporadic meditator at best for years, only to really commit to meditation when, just after turning 39, I discovered a mass in my right breast. From the point of discovery of the mass to getting the necessary tests, waiting for results, waiting for surgery, waiting to see if the newly diagnosed cancer had spread to lymph nodes, waiting to see what treatment I would have, and so… Continue reading

February 12 2009 | By Liora | Tagged: anxiety, awareness, balance, health, meditation, Productivity, relaxation, stress | 7 comments»

How to Improve Your Memory

Our memory is one of the integral parts of day-to-day human life. We're using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen? It's no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such… Continue reading

April 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: diet, exercise, gtd, meditation, memory, minimalism, mnemonics | 7 comments»

Top 5 Ways to Double your Energy (Without Caffeine!)

It’s one of the most common complaints on the planet and it comes in many forms:

"I just sat down, you get up."
"I’m too tired, too achey, too frazzled."
"Can’t a person have 5-minutes to just chill out?"
"I’m burned out."
"I’m feeling a little... run-down, weak, lazy"

While there may be other contributing factors... Lack of energy plays a pretty major role in all these excuses. Over the last ten years, motivated largely by the… Continue reading

January 18 2008 | By Jonathan | Tagged: energy, exercise, health, meditation | 42 comments»

How to Use a Notebook to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever

The notebook has been around forever. Do you remember your first one? It probably had very wide lines and perhaps a spiral binding. You used a fat pencil and traced letters until they became second nature. Before long you learned script. Then you migrated to pens. Some of you, dear readers, are now Moleskine aficionados and are selective and perhaps downright snooty about your pen choice. The lefties here… Continue reading

January 7 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: goal setting, gtd, meditation, new_year, notebook, planning, Productivity, success, tool | 69 comments»

How to Let Yoga Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever!

People today, are under fire. Relentless stress, longer workdays, fewer vacations, destructive nutrition and an epidemic of inactivity have led to an adult generation plagued by chronic pain, fatigue, disease and frustration. In search of an answer that does not require a lifetime of medication, many have turned to complimentary and alternative medicine and more conscious forms of movement. For many, yoga has led the way. While more than 16 million… Continue reading

January 3 2008 | By Jonathan | Tagged: exercise, fitness, health, meditation, stress, yoga | 70 comments»

How to Improve Your Concentration

In concentration we marshal all our dispersed energies into focusing on just one thing. When mastered, concentration can be of unimaginable benefit in our life; through concentration we can increase our productivity and give ourselves greater peace of mind. These are some suggestions for improving your concentration. One-Pointedness Concentration means that we can focus on one thing, to the exclusion of all else. Our concentration may involve writing or working on… Continue reading

November 27 2007 | By Tejvan | Tagged: alertness, concentration, focus, meditation | 28 comments»

The How And Why Of Meditation

We've been covering meditation for a while on Lifehack.org and don't really get sick of good meditation articles. This one from Tejvan Pettinger for PickTheBrain.com covers the benefits of meditating regularly and how to get into it as a beginner. Even on the most basic level, meditation is beneficial. The best idea, I think, is not to think of it as religious or spiritual, but rather use it… Continue reading

July 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: meditation | 8 comments»

Reboot Your Brain With Practical Meditation

Meditation isn’t just a spiritual practice. If done properly, meditation can be a practical one. Through taking more traditional meditative practices and altering them to fit my needs, I’ve found it can serve many purposes:

Focus. Meditating can cut through distractions and focus your mind. I’ve found certain meditations to be useful to give myself an extra edge in directing my thinking.
Imagination. Visualizing different scenes

July 2 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: brain, focus, meditation | 15 comments»

How To Take A Meditation Nap

To coincide with the recent posts about napping - a great post from Brian Armstrong about designing the perfect nap, and this one on power napping - here's a quick and easy step by step to get in that zone; good for short, meditating sleeps.

1 STRETCH your legs for 30 seconds.

2 SIT on a chair or couch. If you’re at work back away from your desk a

June 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: meditation, nap, relaxation | 2 comments»

Getting to Plumb

Plumb: adjective: At right angles to the horizon or to level ground: perpendicular, upright, vertical.

So many things in life can knock you out of plumb. As you roll on, focused on your life, along comes some crazy thing that slams you - and suddenly you find yourself askew.

Many traditions of meditative practice use the term "centered" to describe the state of presence, peace, and stillness. Another that I have… Continue reading

December 12 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: meditation, presence, relaxation, stress | 2 comments»

Tiny Life Hack: A White Square

While visiting friends in Maine this weekend, I stumbled upon what might prove to be a useful morning hack for you. They'd taken down their bathroom mirror (presumably to replace it), and in its place was a big white rectangle with nothing on it. The first few times, I was disoriented, because I counted on the mirror to give me a quick glance at myself. By the third time, I'd… Continue reading

August 21 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: focus, meditation, observation | 4 comments»

Meditation improves focus and memory

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen at Time Magazine Online has featured an article on meditation and its benefits. She take some good examples and quotes to show that meditation does not only reduce stress, it also improves brain functions, such as increase attention span, sharpen focus and improve memory. And it claims that nap does not work as well as meditation in term of restoring energy during the day: ... Many people who… Continue reading

January 10 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: health, meditation, Productivity | no comments»