Articles about Meditation

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

Meditation for Self-Realization by Carol Palmer . . .a lot of what is called meditation these days, especially by the media, is not actually meditation at all but a meditative state. Using the same word to describe two very different things can be confusing.

Living Mindfully – A Day of Insight Meditation in Oxford by Lee Ronald Insight Meditation, also known as ‘Vipassana meditation’ centres around our conscious engagement with the breath. Its roots are in Buddhist teachings which have been circulating for many thousands of years, although it is only recently that they have been available in the West.

Never Move From Where You Already Are by Andrew Cohen The meditation instructions that I give are very simple. I ask people to relax as much as they can, to be as at ease and as free from tension as possible and at the same time I want everyone to try to pay as much attention as they can to everything.

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Primordial Sound Meditation - A journey to the self by Jane Colebourn Meditation is the most powerful tool available, to enable us to have direct experience of the Spirit. Developed by Deepak Chopra, MD.

Reverie by Jack Schwarz We have talked about meditation as a tool for self-discovery and observed that we should understand how to use it before beginning to work with it. This orientation will continue to be an important aspect of the discussions that follow concerning the actual techniques of creative meditation.

Meditation for Health by Lita de Alberdi Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may eventually become blissfully unaware of time passing.

Transformative Meditation – Loss and Recovery of Meaning by Mark Edwards It is often said today, even in such lofty circles as the World Health Organisation, that health is not simply the absence of disease but the presence of real physical, emotional and social well-being.