Meditation

To harness the energy of the mind, you must learn to see beyond the content of your thoughts to their very substance.

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Learn how to infuse your hatha yoga practice with metta in motion to find your lovingkindness.

Research suggests that more time on the meditation cushion means more everyday enlightenment when you get off it.

When it comes to practicing mindfulness, the yoga and Buddhist traditions have much in common.

Recognize and explore your edge, the point you are not willing to go beyond, in order to move past it.

Meditation and mindfulness don't have to only happen sitting down. Learn how to incorporate your mindfulness in motion and your entire practice.

Rather than straining to quiet the mind in meditation, simply relax into the quiet that contains the mind.

Patanjali's basic advice in the Yoga Sutra may sound simple, but many find sitting in meditation painful and difficult. Here's how you can bring ease to your seated posture.

Having thoughts arise during meditation is normal, but are you clinging to these thoughts rather than simply watching them drift by?

While many medication treat the symptoms, vibrations created from chanting Om can help clear your sinusitis and ward off infections from its source.

Surrendering to the unknown is less frightening if you have faith that something will catch you when you fall—whatever name you call it by.

Your new favorite form of mindfulness.

Traditionally, the goal of a spiritual practice has been to attain enlightenment, but is that what today's seekers are really after?

Try this meditation to nourish the heart from the inside out.

Many yogis find that anapanasati, a form of meditation that focuses on the breath, is a natural place to begin their sitting practice.

Based on Taoist Meditation practice, Shiva Rea's inner smile meditation is an opportunity smile at yourself and embrace your happiness.

By visualizing your heart as a lotus flower, you can begin to create a safe, comfortable place for your mind to settle.

Learn why you should vocalize your mantras instead of silently thinking them to benefit the heart and the central nervous system.

Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, —including ourselves.

Put aside your expectations and allow your mind to relax into its true state of meditation.

When we begin to practice meditation, we come to recognize the sense of limitation that has been imposed on our lives.

What keeps a meditation practice going for 25 years? Renowned author Natalie Goldberg offers some insight.

Knowing what to do with your wandering thoughts is perhaps the greatest challenge for meditators.

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Finding the right concentration technique for your meditation practice means opening as many doors as possible.

Know whether to exhale through the mouth or nose during pranayama breathing or just in natural breathing.

This contemplation meditation is an opportunity to focus "thinking mind" on the mystery of being.

Shiva Rea offers a meditation is based upon the mantra "so hum," ("I am that") used within the traditions of Tantra and Vedanta.

Meditation invokes a shift in consciousness, whether in stillness or motion.

If you're not meditating, are you really doing yoga?

If you're having difficulty meditating because of back pain, you could be sitting incorrectly.

Meditation and yoga allow you to weather the sudden storms in your relationships.

Meditators of all levels are drawn to silent yoga retreats for spiritual awakening and peace of mind. Here are 9 meditation centers that support silence.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Are you ready to tap into all the benefits that meditation offers? Here's our go-to guide on how to get started.

This five-part meditation clears the heart and quiets the mind.

This concentration practice grounds you in the present moment.

Cautiously relinquishing her reservations about meditation, a Vermont writer signs up for a nine-day silent retreat.