Meditation Tips On Taming The Monkey Mind (Having Too Many Thoughts) Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist)

Thanks for sharing to Günther Bernhard

Mindah-Lee Kumar explains on her  Youtube Vlog:

"The most common problem for beginner meditators is having a monkey mind, where we have too many distracting thoughts which prevent us from concentrating on our meditation object. In this video I provide you with eight meditation tips for combating our busy mind so we can stay focused on the object of meditation. These techniques explain how to gently and effectively relate to these thoughts so we can achieve a quieter mind and make greater progress in our meditation."

These are very good advices You can use for all sorts of Meditation. Enjoy and share!

Love and Peace to all of us!

Namasté

Easy Start Meditation by Tris Thorp

Today I'll be proudly featuring Trista Thorp:

Tris has just sent me an e-mail describing how Meditation literally saved her life, that she studied at the Chopra Center to become a vedic master and that she's now sharing this timeless knowledge to help others. We got acquainted some years ago, when I met her as a speaker and  teacher at the "Journey into Healing" Conference with David Simon in Oxford. She was giving some of the meditation sessions and lectures. I was impressed, how easily this young lady took over the conference moderation and by the way how she mediated the knowledge. I have then met her again at the Chopra Center when I prepared for my own exams. By now she is probably one of the best meditation teachers You could find. 

She sent me an ingeniously simplified first step meditation instruction for beginners to share:

"To practice the So-Hum meditation, all you need to do is:

1. Find a comfortable place to sit upright in a chair or on the ground.
2. Bring your awareness to your breathing, allowing yourself to settle into a relaxed state.
3. As you follow your breath in, silently think “So”
4. As you follow your breath out, silently think “Hum”
5. Whenever you notice your attention has drifted to thoughts in your mind (and you will), simply return to the silent repetition of the mantra So-Hum
6. At any point when you become distracted by noises in the environment, simply treat it as you would any other thought, without judgment, just return to your breath and the mantra So-Hum"

Tris Thorp states: "Meditation is a practice that saved my life, literally."

I  hope You enjoy this simple to learn practice and that You can share it Yourself, when friends - who may ask You what to do -  want to join in.

In any case of questions or doubt feel free to call either one of us to find answers

Namasté

Thomas

Peace Meditation

It's about time for a Peace Meditation: 



Join in to the meditation every Sunday.

at 07:00 CEST and meditate together until 07:30 CEST , 
We'll repeat this every Sunday and I'm happy for everyone taking part in it, 
no matter where on this planet nor
by which method. Let there be Peace in the world.

The picture is by Christine Wittler. Thank You Christine!

What's happening in Your body during Meditation

Thank You, Troy Dunham, for sharing this special Infographic published on Huffington Post. This makes it all very clear :))

"Because fear, as I have observed, is a dreadful thing."

This morning, the day after Halloween 2012, perhaps the scariest - and for millions of us - the #Sandiest Halloween of mankind so far, I came across an interview that was done already in the 70s of the last century. 
The subject was: Ffff....E... hehehe...A...aa...R...rrrr!

Halloween 2012, scariest so far ...

At first I thought: Wow, that's a long interview, an hour (!), who knows if I can take that, but - hey presto - the time was over. Perhaps one of the shortest hours I've ever experienced. 

The subject however is - in my opinion - as relevant as ever. 
Maybe it has evolved considerably already for the one or the other of us. Got any fear? Looking forward to Your answers, first of all, let's plunge into it ...

20th February 1974 6th Conversation with Dr. Allan W. Anderson 

'Fear'

Dr. Allan W. Anderson: Mr Krishnamurti, if I recall correctly I think, we had begun to talk together last time, just at the point where the question of fear arose, and I think we both, perhaps, could explore that together a little.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Yes, I think so. I wonder how we can approach this problem, because it is a common problem in the world. Everyone, or I can say, almost everyone is frightened of something. It may be the fear of death, fear of loneliness, fear of not being loved, fear of not becoming famous, successful and also fear of not having physical security, and fear of not having psychological security. There are so many multiple forms of fears. Now to go into this problem really very deeply, can the mind, which includes the brain, really fundamentally be free of fear? Because fear, as I have observed, is a dreadful thing.

So what is Your fear?  And if You got any, would You like to share some of it, just to let go of it? 
(Maybe start just with the ones in Your consciousness ...)
Something that works for me: Fear is very similar to suffering. Once You share it, You got only half of it left. Does that work for You as well? Or would a list of fears multiply? 
This might be a good chance to let some of it go and maybe reflect on it from a distance? 
#Fear is as well tagged on Twitter.  What do You feel and what are Your impressions if You follow the track? Is it relief or a drag?
I am interested in how You see the "dreadful thing" and am looking forward to your comments down below :)

Zen on the Beach

12.09.2012 I took a note of what happened to me ... 
... Some time ago I was sitting on the beach and I made these sand sculptures.  
A few pedestrians passed by. The adults continued. Only the children stayed for a while and noticed something special.  
A little boy approached me, laughing: "How do you do that, because this is not possible ?! Who are you?"
I smiled and said, "A magician?
Oh no, it's not magic at all. In fact what you see there, you can do yourself. It is quite normal.  

All you create is made from thoughts informing particals to behave in a certain way. Try it yourself! It's easy! "
...
 
"But my mother will not believe it when I tell her what I have learned!"

In the first days of September 2015, by chance 

I had an afternoon walk after a job in the same town,

 on the same beach 3 years later, there was this same boy, 

three years older now, and guess what: 

He was sitting in the sand, forming these little sand sculptures, 

and his mother at his side, accompanied him doing the same. 

They both smiled this smile of deep knowingness at each other. 

Beautiful, and this was the actual lesson of Zen on the Beach !

Meditate on the Go

Summer, Sun, Travel
Traveling often changes the daily rhythm of life. Whether you travel to foreign countries or if your voyage is Talking place "only" within a "microcosm". A question I am now extremely interested in:
How do you manage to meditate on the road?


Has anything changed for you? Please share in a comment on your experience and your opinion with this :)