The practice of mindfulness isn’t just limited to adults. School children of all ages can also practice mindfulness in the classroom. Practicing mindfulness can be very beneficial during childhood. Therefore, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire article to the subject. Mindfulness…
The Green Tara mantra comes from the most popular goddess of Buddhism. Green Tara is the goddess of universal compassion, enlightenment, and virtuous performances. They say she’s the mother of all Buddhas.
Defining self-esteem isn’t a simple task. We could say that self-esteem is the emotional part that stems from our self-concept, the emotions that arise from how we see ourselves. These emotions create thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that tend to reinforce…
One of the principles of the Hawaiian philosophy Ho’oponopono states: “Take care of the exterior as well as the interior, because everything is one“. This idea of unity is fundamental to understand how dissociative disorders work and to nourish our…
Meditation is a great opportunity to connect with ourselves, become aware of what we feel, and explore our thoughts. However, keeping your mind from wandering while you meditate can be quite difficult. It requires a lot of practice and adequate techniques…
Zen coaching combines two focuses. On one hand, the discipline of “coaching” is orientated towards making connections, instructing, and training others to achieve their goals. This is a Western idea. On the other hand, zen is a thousand-year-old philosophical system hoping…
Do you ever wish you could silence the thoughts that frustrate or distract you? Have you heard about the power that repeating mantras has on quieting your mind? Have you ever experimented to see what would happen after vocalizing one…
Eastern culture has identified energy centers situated in the human body called chakras. Here, different biological and psychological aspects of the way we relate to ourselves come together. When you balance your chakras, you put yourself on the path to health…
Meditation has become so popular that it is part of our lives in many environments, with different objectives. This is not without reason. Meditation has multiple benefits for your physical and mental health. Maybe that’s why meditating is becoming fashionable.…
Self-hypnosis is a very useful psychological tool to make behavioral changes. Likewise, it can help you control the flow of negative thoughts, get you in a better mood, and even help you focus on certain goals. It’s at least worth…
What if you learned how to take care of your mind the same way you take care of your body? Getting into self-care habits means exercising your self-esteem muscles and overcoming the resistance of apathy. It means being more emotionally balanced…
Meditation is a technique for health and well-being that has a huge impact on everyone: men, women, the elderly, adults, young people, and of course, children too. It’s not enough just to take care of your body. It’s also good…
The tea ceremony is part of the Zen meditation rituals. It is what the Japanese call Ichigo, which means “a moment, an encounter.” It is all about creating a unique, unrepeatable moment. Participants focus all their senses on the moment…
Matthieu Ricard is a Tibetan Buddhist monk involved in research on the effects of mental training on our brains done at the universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Princeton, and Berkeley. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin have claimed that Matthieu is the…
Maybe you have your own playlist of relaxing music. You turn it on when you need to calm your mind. Music can make us feel so wonderfully peaceful. It produces serotonin to relieve our stress and relieve physical pain. It’s always there for…
Tai Chi has gotten very popular all over the world in the past few years. The practice originated in Imperial China, but today millions of people practice it in every part of the world. Tai Chi is a physical-spiritual practice, but…
You might think that it is very difficult to develop your intuition. The truth is, however, that you can foster and perfect it just like any other ability. Many people have a powerful and seemingly innate instinct. Nevertheless, instinct is…
Meditating doesn’t mean distancing yourself from the world; actually it means the exact opposite. It means getting closer to the world: understanding it, loving it and transforming it. The books on meditation we’ll list below can teach you how to do…
Meditation mantras are words or phrases that help us adopt an attitude of greater concentration and focus. People have used these kinds of linguistic formulas for ages. Almost every culture has given a special value to certain words or expressions. In many…
Conscious attention, meditation, mindfulness, or Sati, as they call it in Pali, is a practice where we become aware of the different facets of our experience in the present. To start meditating is give ourselves the chance to get conscious of how…