MEDITATION: More on the basics. Learning meditation is like learning to play a musical instrument: It is learning how to “tune” the mind, to get better relationships with our thoughts, and eventually control them Dedicated, regular, patient, and non-judgmental practice is how to achieve this. Progress will not occur if one is casual about […]

                                         Stress,  Mind-body interconnection                                            and the effect of meditation Mindfulness-based Meditation is a well scientifically documented therapeutic tool offered to many patients suffering from acute or chronic stress since the work of Jon Kabat Zinn in 1991 What is stress? The term  “stress” was coined for the first time in 1926 by a Canadian Hans Selye […]

May 8 22 The greatest part of human pain is not only self-created but also unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind controls and runs your life. The pain we are created is very often some form of resistance or complaint against something or someone. Rather than resistance, Zen prefers the word […]

Talking to ourselves and listening to our continuous inner voice is, by far, the most common activity of our mind. It is estimated that around 90,000 to 140,000 thoughts are produced every day. A very small proportion of this huge amount is decisional, but most of them are self-talking and listening to ourselves with w/any […]