What we know about meditation and mindfulness is generally positive, about how it improves our lives. But no one talks about the dangers. I have studied how these situations show up, and now offer some remedies for the most popular misunderstandings. If we substitute the word "challenges" instead of danger, I think it's being nicer [...]
Tag: beginner meditation
New Spiritkeep YouTube Video
June 15, 2020, I added a new video to the Spiritkeep YouTube channel, inviting potential Meditation and Mindfulness Students to examine my qualifications and teaching courses here on the Multimedia Web. The YouTube Link is here. (FYI....the Spiritkeep YouTube channel is also on the Menu Bar under the Home page title.) I have more videos [...]
Meditation Mindfulness Classes
With the best information you can decide for yourself if you want to take my courses or classes. These research based classes are designed to provide you with your own set of meditation and mindfulness skills. (to read more, click on article title) Ethics, Rob Owens (Links to Verify) Personal health, safety and integrity is [...]
Meditation on Main Stream Media
Long a proponent of meditation to relieve suffering and promote wellness, I was delighted this week when I hear a Canadian Broadcast Corp. (CBC) short program on my favourite subject - mindfulness. Too often these shows are a turn-off to beginners, citing stuffy statistical analysis, dry academic theories of instruction, with lotus sitting, incense laden methods difficult for [...]
Meditation for Beginners
Culturally, we expect a certain result or predictable outcome from our efforts, so it is difficult letting go of expectations for meditation. Also, disappointment of expectation can bring suffering, and isn't that what we are trying to eliminate? Understanding that each meditation will probably yield different results, and that regular time and place practice leads [...]
Demystifying Meditation
Meditation does not have to be so confusing! Consider that meditation has accompanied humanity since the sun set on the first prehistoric cooking fire. Picture our ancient ancestors gazing into the glowing coals; a warm, comforting and ineffable pleasure after a stressful day of running from tyrannosaurus rex while hunting and gathering nuts and berries. In the fire's [...]
