Use a Meditation Chair Why You Might Want to Use a Meditation Chair Why You Might Want to Use a Meditation Chair This article is for anyone who may be thinking about learning Applied Awareness™ meditation techniques, but worry you might be asked to sit in uncomfortable positions or on the floor. Don’t worry, your […]
Self-Awareness Practice Self-awareness practice consists of paying attention to the choices we make and comes in two forms. The first is active self-awareness where we work with our choices as we make them throughout our day. The second is reflective self-awareness, a practice where we use the past as a mirror to understand ourselves […]
Making the Mostof your Retreat Going to a retreat is a great way to get away, relax, and refresh from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. Being in a different atmosphere disrupts our normal routine, the mental associations we rely on in our daily lives, and our usual mental habits. This is why […]
Walking Meditation Meditation, as a practice, distracts us from our normal auto-pilot thought patterns and gives us a better understanding of how our minds work. It’s often the distraction itself that allows us space to mentally relax, which is why something as simple as pausing to take a deep breath can help us relax and […]
Nature Sounds for Applied Awareness Nature-Based Meditation If you’re not familiar with Applied Awareness Nature-Based Meditation there are basic instructions further down below the audio files. Dawn in the Amazonian Rainforest For-Mar Nature Preserve Fountain Rocky Mountain National Park Thunderstorm Lake Birds Daybreak at Buel Lake Backyard Birds Creakside Clio Drummond Hill in Perthshire, Scotland […]
Shaking meditation offers a quick way to calm the mind, and is a great destresser. Somatic shaking (shaking or trembling), which comes from the limbic brain (the part of the brain that holds emotions), sends a signal that danger has passed and that the fight-or-flight system can turn off. They are literally finishing the nervous […]
Our Motivation Pursuing happiness is more than a right, it’s our constant underlying motivation for everything we do. We know we can always be happier than we are right now, and that is our constant motivator, to be happier. Every choice we make, everything we do, is a conscious or subconscious attempt to be happier. […]
How We Think We make the following two choices over and over again…and we call it “thinking“. First we choose how to interpret what we’re experiencing. Then we decide how we’re going to react to our own interpretations. Sometimes our reaction is just to keep interpreting what’s happening until we have enough information to go on. […]
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Mental Habits We form both conscious and subconscious habits for everything we do on a regular basis, including thinking. Mental habits are our time and energy-saving auto-pilot way of navigating daily life. The way we react in different situations, the way we walk, how we get dressed, where we choose to sit, how we go […]