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10 Unexpected Ways to Meditate Every Day. Practicing meditation regularly has legitimate health advantages, especially for the brain. Studies suggest meditation can do it all: reduce anxiety and sensitivity to pain, make us smarter, ward off sickness, and prevent stress.  Read more here…

Meditation In Action: Learning How To Give Generously. Giving is easy, but doing so with sensitivity and care is an art. When we give, it’s important to be generous in our giving. At first, this sounds pretty obvious — we may even think of the two words as being synonymous with each other. Read more here…

In this meditation you’re actually trying to increase feelings of caring about people. So first you practice with somebody you really love – somebody it’s easy to feel compassion for. You imagine a time when they were in pain or suffering and then you go through a phase of wishing that their suffering is relieved and you repeat the phrases, “May you be free from suffering,” ‘May you have joy and ease,” but it’s not just repeating the words, you’re really trying to change the way you’re feeling. Read more here…

s: Parents Turn To Mindfulness Practices To Help Children Stay Calm. As more adults turn to mindfulness practices like yoga and meditation to combat mounting stress in their own lives (91 percent of Americans experienced stress in the month of March, according to a Huffington Post survey), they’re also experimenting with alternative practices to teach their kids to relax. Read more here…

By turning everyday activities into meditation moments, you can bring more mindfulness, clarity, and peace into your day while energizing yourself and reducing stress. Read more here…

Though the practices of yoga and meditation have their roots in ancient cultures, they’ve both become modern day movements. More than 20 million Americans meditate regularly, according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. More than 13 million do yoga. Read more here…

Reduce stress with yoga, tai chi, meditation. We all can recognize feelings of stress overload, and they are not pleasant. A tightening of muscles, headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, a racing heartbeat and blood pressure that feels way too high. With overloaded schedules, deadlines and everyday hassles, stress seems inevitable.  Read more here…

The words “zen” and “child” don’t exactly go together, but that hasn’t stopped a growing number of parents from “ohm schooling” their kids in the art of yoga, meditation and relaxation. Read more here…

These brief mindfulness meditations don’t require sitting like a pretzel or sniffing incense, not that there is any thing wrong with a traditional meditation practice if you have the time. Read more here…

Walking is a great way to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life and has been practiced as a meditative technique for thousands of years. But in everyday life, walking is usually an established and habituated action that requires very little concentration. Read more here…