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Tag: meditation
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How do you teach children to concentrate?
The best way to teach children how to concentrate is for you to learn concentration and practice it yourself. Concentration is the ability for you to keep your awareness on one thing for an extended period of time. Parents struggle to teach concentration because they are not concentrated themselves. Children learn through examples -- they watch you do something and they do it. If you learn and pra...
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Jun 13, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
Meditation is a Scart
Meditation is a Scart. Scart is a word I coined to refer to something that is a science and an art, hence ScArt. Meditation is a combination of science and art. A science, because it requires a systematic goal-orientated approach based on a solid understanding of the process. And
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Jun 1, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
Preparation for Meditation
Your preparation for meditation is as important as your meditation practice, if not more so. The better you prepare, the better your meditation will be. Look at it this way, if someone very important was coming to your home for dinner you would prepare for this, would you not? Yo
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Apr 27, 2016 1 MINUTE READ
The Journey of Awareness in Meditation
The mystic's goal is to control awareness in his mind. To separate awareness from that which he is aware of so he can consciously move it to any area of the mind that he wants it to go to. As he gains mastery over his awareness and a gains a better understanding of his mind, he
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Nov 10, 2015 3 MINUTES READ
Meditating, starting a business, falling in love and other how-tos
It's been six whole months since I have blogged. That was the longest hiatus I have taken since I started blogging shortly after leaving the monastery 7 years ago. In that time lots have happened. One of the biggest developments is that I have a brand new website. You're looking
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Nov 18, 2014 4 MINUTES READ
Yoga & Meditation Retreat in North India, March 2015
Join me on a transformative yoga and meditation retreat in North India next March 2015. This spiritual adventure will focus on learning the foundations of both yoga and meditation while exploring one of the most exquisite the parts of the world where these practices began. This
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Nov 10, 2014 4 MINUTES READ
Bringing Life to Meditation
Recently in privately training someone how to meditate I spent the first 3 days not even talking about meditation. There is a lot to learn before one even begins to sit down to meditate. Everybody is in a rush these days. Even in a rush to learn to meditate. They know what the
