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How to Do Meditation at Home

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

Meditation is an effective technique that has been around for centuries. People who meditate consistently find that there are short-term...

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How Meditation Changes the Brain

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

Did you know that simply sitting and breathing mindfully can significantly change the brain? It’s true! Meditation Nurtures the Brain...

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The Art of Letting Go

By Trungram Gyalwa, PhD

Meditation and letting go: the antidotes to suffering Is it possible that many of the difficulties in our lives come...

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What is the Buddhist Eightfold Path?

By Sara-Mai Conway

Why Is The Eightfold Path Important? (Putting an End to Suffering) The Buddhist eightfold path, known as the Noble Eightfold...

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Long Term Benefits of Meditation

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

It often feels like there are just not enough hours in a day and not enough days in a week...

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Guided Meditation for Stress Relief

By Maria Camara

A mindful breathing meditation for relaxation Based on the guided meditations for stress reduction presented in Mindworks Working with Stress...

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Why is Meditation Important? 6 Facts You Need to Know

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

When the topic of mindfulness comes up, there are people out there who still imagine that meditation is the domain...

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Buddhist Meditation Techniques & Practices

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

You probably know that the increasingly popular practices of mindfulness and meditation share Buddhist roots. But did you know that...

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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Noble Truths?

By Sara-Mai Conway

Understanding the Four Noble Truths (Path to the End of Suffering) The 4 noble truths of Buddhism are central to...

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Meditation Definition: What is Meditation? Take Charge of the Mind

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

Good question! Meditation is indeed learning to work with the mind. The Cambridge dictionary defines meditation as “the act of...

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What Happens to Your Mind, Brain and Body During Meditation?

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

Your brain is an unimaginably complex electrochemical organ. There’s always a certain level of electric activity going on there regardless...

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The Contemplative Approach to Compassion

By Lama Jampa Thaye

How to develop compassion in a contemplative way, free from suffering The best approach to compassion is probably through love....

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What Is Mantra Meditation?

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

A mantra is a syllable, word, or phrase that is repeated during meditation. Mantras can be spoken, chanted, whispered, or...

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Opening the Heart to Love

By Vinny Ferraro

4 Heart Practices Meditation I think when I first came to practice, probably for the first couple years, I sat...

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Meditation Benefits for the Mind and Body

By Trungram Gyalwa, PhD

Our minds and our bodies are connected. If we’re unhappy for an extended time, our bodies become weaker and more...

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