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Jon Kabat Zinn – A Unique Approach to Stress Reduction

[caption id="attachment_4518" align="aligncenter" width="617"] Photo credit to Changing The Game Project[/caption] Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is a concept that many of us are familiar...

Headspace Meditation: Changing Your Life for the Better

[caption id="attachment_4528" align="aligncenter" width="656"] Photo credit to Carnegie Mellon University[/caption] Meditation is a practice that few of us have gotten a chance to try, in part...

Mindfulness Meditation Guide: Getting You Started

[caption id="attachment_4530" align="aligncenter" width="697"] Photo credit to Huffington Post[/caption] Derived from the 2,500-year-old Buddhist practice known as Vipassana (also called Insight...

Simple Body Scan Meditation

[caption id="attachment_4568" align="aligncenter" width="654"] Photo credit to Men's Journal[/caption] Body Scan Meditation One of the most common questions we hear from athletes and performers of...

Athletes Doing Meditation? Yes!

I recently gave a talk to a group of athletes (ages 18-24) about meditation and sport. There questions were good and probably similar to questions that most people have when they first hear...

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Meditation

[caption id="attachment_1316" align="alignleft" width="150"] The Avatar in meditation[/caption] Meditation and The Lesson of Avatar:The Last Airbender Many of you may have heard of or seen the...