Category: How to Meditate

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 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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Why Breath Meditation is Not Only for Beginners

By Sara-Mai Conway

What are the Benefits of Advanced Breathing Meditation? Most people who are new to meditation are instructed to begin with...

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How to Listen to Your Breath, and What it’s Telling You

By Sara-Mai Conway

8 Breathing Patterns that Reveal the Health State of Body and Mind The quality of our breath has lots to...

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Which Type of Meditation is Best?

By Sara-Mai Conway

The Best Types of Meditation for Beginners — Mindfulness & Awareness Once people understand there’s more than one type of...

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Common Meditation Myths Debunked

By Sara-Mai Conway

Mistaken assumptions about meditation, how it works, and what the outcomes should be can prevent us from starting a practice...

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How Meditation Works to Stop Bad Habits

By Sara-Mai Conway

Science points to how bad habits form, but mindfulness helps us break free Research shows almost half of what we...

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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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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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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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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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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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Does Meditation Make You Happy?

By Trinlay Rinpoche

What do we all have in common? What motivates us? What is it that we’re all striving for? We’re all...

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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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How to Breathe Properly When Meditating

By Bart Mendel and Mindworks Team

The point of mindfulness meditation practice is to cultivate awareness and peace, but beginners often get side-tracked by worrying about...

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