What is a Bugghist Thangka and where can you buy one?
A Tibetan Thangka is a type of painting which usually depicts a Buddhist deity … which the monks use to bring the temple into a Feng Shui alignment during meditation. This old artwork is still…
Author: Nigel Taylor
Shamatha or mindfulness
Free Press Journal: Shamatha, or mindfulness, is how we make this mind more stable, more useful. The word “shamatha” in Sanskrit means “peacefully abiding”. Peacefully abiding describes the mind as it naturally is. The word…
Communal Living: Communal Living is Having a Moment in, Where Else, Brooklyn
It offers a slew of “benefits”— dinner parties, music nights, “sober morning raves,” yoga, massages, meditation and the like are all on offer. Nine fully-furnished and fairly fancy residential apartments, a clubhouse, large communal tables:…
From the Ground Up: Gardening—Good for body and mind
In addition to the benefits of the M. vaccae, gardening increases neurotrophins throughout the entire brain, increasing mental health. It also reduces cortisol, which helps reduce stress. More and more people are turning to the…
Can hypnosis motivate you to work out?
You can see yourself exercising and you can see yourself getting the benefits so your mind gets excited about … Experts say hypnosis is essentially a hyper-focused form of meditation and can work as an…
Hiding from pain by pursuing pleasure
There’s a famous teaching, the Sallatha Sutta, in which the Buddha discusses our suffering as consisting of “two arrows.” The first arrow is simply the unavoidable suffering that we all experience as a result of…
Meditation, IBS And IBD: Study Shows Meditation Helps Alleviate Symptoms of Gastrointestinal Disorders
Although meditation is chiefly regarded as a practice aimed at benefitting … Study participants were taught a variety of meditative techniques (breath work, yoga, imagery), cognitive skill building and acceptance. Along the way, researchers looked…
How to live green in retirement
Is green living important to you? If you’re a boomer or GenX … which developed a year’s worth of activities to encourage sustainable practices, such as reducing the use of plastic bags. Working in partnership…
This is how to motivate creative teams
Yu’s efforts have paid off tenfold, resulting in so many creative ideas that VF developed a Corporate Innovation Fund, through which the company literally invests in employees’ ideas. The result: Over the last four and…
10 Creative Visionaries Share Their Methods For Unlocking New Ideas
Do you need boundaries, or can you let it rip? Ten ultra-creative people share what makes them tick.Notions of creativity tend to fall into one of two camps: Either you’re the wide-open brainstorm type, or…
A life in dog years: Heart-melting pictures of our faithful friends growing from puppyhood to old age
We bought a house, had a baby, and through it all dear Lily was there with us—passing the time, being by our sides, joining us in our adventures of life.’ Taking 20 years to put…
5 Ways to Maintain and Spread Healthy Habits
By now we’ve heard that obesity is contagious. Well, the flip side of that is that healthy habits are contagious, too. Here’s how to build and share those habits with everyone around you. 5 Ways…