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Is There a Role for Meditation in the Fight for Social Justice?

By Sara-Mai Conway

Meditation Can Make You Less Personally Biased Meditation is a deeply personal practice, and yet it has an important role...

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Meditation for Releasing Negative Emotions

By Sara-Mai Conway

Why Emotions Sometimes Hurt (How Emotional Pain Affects Your Mind) Meditation is a powerful tool for helping us work with...

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Spiritual Bypassing and How to Avoid It

By Sara-Mai Conway

What Is Spiritual Bypassing? Definition, Levels, and Examples Most people turn towards meditation and a more spiritual life because they...

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Does Meditation Release Trauma from the Body?

By Sara-Mai Conway

How Trauma Gets Stored In The Body (Somatic Memory & Nervous System) Nearly everyone experiences trauma at some point in...

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The Best Guided Meditations For Beginners

By Sara-Mai Conway

Guided Meditation for Beginners: How to Meditate? (And Keep it Simple) Guided meditation can be a good way to start...

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How Long Should Beginners Meditate For?

By Sara-Mai Conway

The Best Meditation Length for Beginners (The Ideal Amount of Time) New to meditation? You might be wondering how long...

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How Meditation Helps Stop Overthinking

By Sara-Mai Conway

How Overthinking Harms Us (Meditating When You're an Overthinker) We all know what it’s like to lie awake at night...

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What is This Thing We Call Self?

By Bart Mendel

We Are Not What We Think (And the Idea of Selflessness) We know from our experience that everything is always...

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Calming Nighttime Anxiety for Better Sleep

By Sara-Mai Conway

What is Sleep Anxiety? (How to Calm Anxiety at Night) If your anxiety gets worse at night, preventing you from...

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome with Meditation

By Sara-Mai Conway

How to Use Meditation to Overcome Imposter Syndrome Effectively The thoughts and emotions that tell us we’re not enough, incapable...

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What Are the Four Foundations of Mindfulness?

By Sara-Mai Conway

Shifting our full attention to the mind itself with direct experience Mindfulness meditation teaches us to be present with whatever...

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Stress Reduction And Meditation

By Sara-Mai Conway

How Meditation Helps Relieve Stress (Simple and Fast Improvements) When we’re faced with unexpected or challenging circumstances that we don’t...

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The Benefits of Body Scan Meditation

By Sara-Mai Conway

Promoting our body awareness, stress awareness, and overall relaxation Body scan meditation is just one type of mindfulness meditation. In...

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How Meditation Will Change Your Life

By Sara-Mai Conway

There’s an old meditation joke that says everyone should meditate for 30 minutes per day. But if you’re too busy...

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The Benefits of Exercise, Meditation and Brain Health

By Sara-Mai Conway

Upon first glance, exercise and meditation offer similar benefits. Both help improve mood, reduce anxiety and depression, and can lead...

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