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Meditation
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11.14.08How Meditation Can Help You Survive the Silly SeasonI have just posted an article over at People Jam about how you can use meditation and self-awareness to help you survive the inevitable craziness that happens between now and New Years. The Self-Aware Silly Season Enjoy your weekend - I'm off to drink beer! Ha! Seamus AnthonySHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Meditation Can Help You Survive the Silly Season", url: "http://www.rebelzen.com/2008/11/how-meditation-can-help-you-survive-the-silly-season/" });
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10.31.08Warning: Meditation is like, Totally Healthy, Dude…All three parts of my meditation series are now online over at PickTheBrain.com. The articles are called "How Meditation Improves Your Health". Meditation Article Part One How mainstream society (and in particular the medical community) has accepted the evidence that meditation is effective in assisting healing. The dark side of our connectivity culture - stress. Meditation Article Part Two How your body reacts to stress Why you are probably more stressed than you need to be Why stress is bad for our bodies Meditation Article Part Three What is the Relaxation Response How to achieve Biological Balance (and why it's good for you) The many benefits of meditation Also don't ...
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10.26.08The Five Minute Kettle MeditationBy Seamus Anthony I am a big fan of spot meditations, which are quick meditations done "on the spot" that can take anywhere from an instant to a couple of minutes. Here's a longer one that I sometimes do in the morning when I get up. First thing I do is put the kettle on, then while I wait for it to boil I do a quick, relaxing meditation. I have an old stainless steel kettle that we heat up on the gas stove-top which takes a minimum of five minutes depending on how full it is. You could do an electric kettle ...
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10.19.08How To Meditate While You’re Doing HouseworkBy Seamus Anthony Did you know you can practice meditation in pretty much any situation? If you lead a busy life and find it hard to make time to meditate, then you might like to try meditating while you get some "mindless" chores done. I do it when I am washing the dishes. Here's how ... Turning Mindless Chores into Mindful Chores We usually think of housework as being pretty mindless work. That's why some people like it, they find it relaxing, and why others (like me) hate it. I dislike it because I would much rather be somehow engaging the grey matter ...
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08.16.08You Are Already Enlightened…... the trick is getting in touch with this truth so that you feel it. By Seamus Anthony If you read a lot of Zen stuff, enlightenment stuff, you'll come across the idea that we are all inherently enlightened, and I believe that this is true. But also true is that most people don't usually feel anything like they're enlightened at all. In fact most people either don't even know what enlightenment is or they believe that it's something "up there" that they cannot hope to achieve. Well, we're not the first but we at Rebel Zen are here to tell you that ...
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07.25.08Rebel Zen and the Art of Small VoicesBy Steven Mills There is nothing better then finding that you have carved out a spare hour in the day to sit and meditate. The daily worries of the world have started to float away, and the big thoughts that fill your normal waking mind have started to quieten down. A slow, easy feeling of peace works its way over your body as you focus on the simpleness of in breath and out breath. You begin to focus on nothing, to pull your observing mind out of the "stream of consciousness" and begin to notice your thoughts as something separate. Then you start ...
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07.03.08Ego and the Inner StoryI have heard it said many a time that every person on this planet has a story tell. If you sat down with a pensioner from Melbourne, an office worker in Berlin or a 12 year old kid in Beijing, each would have a unique and compelling tale to tell. I bet that you also have an interesting story regarding your life and your place in the world. You possess a chronicled history of your past, a unique viewpoint on the present and a predictive prophecy about what you assume is going to happen to you in the future. Everyday when you ...
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06.26.08Rebel Zen and the Art of Imperfect EnlightenmentYou Are Already Enlightened! That's right, and no - I'm not joking. Zen Masters have publicly said that we are all enlightened, the trick is knowing it (or getting in touch with it). And if you haven't any idea what it feels like to connect to this state of being then all I can say is it is very difficult for anybody to express in words. To briefly try (not the main point of this post) let me paraphrase Rachel Pollack's words about the Hanged Man tarot card (from her book Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom): It's feeling free to be who ...
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06.24.08Magic BeansBy Séamus Anthony Ennis This afternoon I was munching my way through my lunch when I slipped and flicked a forkful of baked-beans and sauce all over my jumper and trousers. I experienced a flash of irritation, quickly replaced by amusement. I was at home by myself – messing up my clothes mattered even less than it usually would (which would not be much). As I pondered the several squishy beans and blobs of red-orange goop I had so randomly, yet skillfully arranged on my off-white sweater, I had what I will reluctantly call a Magic Bean Moment. I am reluctant to ...
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