Listening to silence to mute the mind and quiet our body Our mind is extremely sensitive to its sensorial receptors - visual, audio, touch, smell, and taste. Connected to our surroundings is critical to function socially, and survive, and our mind is computing zillions of data from our receptors all the time. How to listen […]
Anxiety: a mental tug of war to deal with it. Anxiety can be defined as the capacity to predict a negative outcome of an even X which does not exist yet. It is based on the fact that the human brain is biased- by default- towards negative outcomes x5 more than towards positive outcomes. Anxiety […]
VR was discovered around 2,500 years ago by Zen Our mind produces around 120,000 thoughts/feelings every day. There are 2 types of mental activities: our thinking mind, and dreaming mind. Of course, cognitive, factual thinking is critical in our day-to-day activities for decisional analysis such as during work, but most of the time, our dreaming […]
Training mind, body, and heart while facing stress What I like about Zen is that it is practical as long you practice it diligently. Stressors are everywhere, permanent, either acute i.e. loss of a loved one or chronic such as guilt They are defined as an event being perceived as out of our control. […]
The Breath as a Bridge Our bodies have both conscious and unconscious awareness, conscious and unconscious behavior, and conscious and unconscious minds. For instance, we can think, consciously, ‘I want to move my arm’, and then move our arm. We feel like we have agency and control over that. We also have unconscious behavior. For […]
Accepting your “non-peace” mind state Don't look for any other mental state or gateway when your current mind is not at peace. Don’t look at the “Why-When-How-Where-Whom” Otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance, and, not only you will never win, but, even, you will even make it worse. How that? While […]
See if you can catch yourself complaining. Even, right down every time you complain about x,y,z … sort of a complaint diary! You will be amazed! We complain a lot consciously and mostly subconsciously in different forms: verbally, thoughtfully, and even physically when complaining becomes aggressive. The complaint can last a few […]
Being self vs. Doing self by Martin I'd like to begin with a quote from Alan Watts, who asserts, “The meaning of life is to be alive... it's so simple. Everybody rushes around in great panic as if it is necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” In a world saturated with materialism and incessant striving, […]
Reflections to strengthen your motivation to meditate. Meditating every day alone and weekly in a group is not easy. It can be even impossible when our mind is restless for whatever reason. Every time you have difficulty meditating, turn your mind toward a gratitude reflection that will benefit you. By doing so, you will […]
This breathing technique is used by the US Navy Seals **as an anti-stress relaxing technique during drills or even in covered missions. By stimulating our parasympathetic nervous system, this technique is a great anti-stress tool by slowing down the heart rate and consecutively blood pressure. It is a derivative of the so-called "Vasalva manoeuver", a […]
