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The act of meditation for at least 15 minutes in the early morning will have a positive effect on your mind during the entire day.
Upon waking have these positive thoughts
I am a peaceful soul, my aim today is to have a peaceful mind and radiate peace to every person that I come into contact with.
Try to experience the stillness of mind of being a peaceful soul.
as other thoughts emerge in the mind do not judge or focus on them but repeat …………
I am a peaceful soul ………….I am a peaceful soul …………
My mind is filled with peace ………….. I radiate peace to the world ……………
I feel the gentle waves of peace flowing across my mind ……….
As these peaceful thoughts emerge in my mind I feel the stillness and silence envelopes my mind ……………..
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about the importance of a calm mind during his teachings in Delhi on March 19th, 2010.
His Holiness facebook link:
http://www.facebook.com/DalaiLama?v=a…
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An important stress management teaching is the idea that if you calm your mind your body will also be calmer and that if you relax your body your mind will be more peaceful. The concept is referred to as calm mind calm body and calm body calm mind. If you calm your mind your body will be more relaxed and stress free and that will improve your health and mood. If you relax your body you’ll be calmer. So you should try some calming exercises or techniques for stress management. Calming exercises could include affirmations, breathing exercises, meditation, Pilates, stretching, walking and yoga.
A helpful calming stress management technique that could help you to calm quickly is mindfulness meditation. In mindfulness meditation you try to pay attention to how you feel, what’s happening and any sensations you have including sounds. You try to live in the present moment (which is sometimes called be here now) and feel what is happening in the time period. Try to be very attentive, alert and conscious of what is happening in the present moment. Pay attention to what you’re doing and how it feels. This technique should help you to be more centered and peaceful.
From time to time throughout the day pause and do some kind of calming or mindfulness exercise. You can try the calming techniques in this article or make up your own. You could stretch and look around the room. You could massage your hands or neck and shoulders. You could count to ten, do things more slowly or carefully or try to be more calm and peaceful.
One simple way to do this is to breathe deeply. Slow breathing can help you relax. Exhaling more slowly than you usually do can also help to [...]
It seems like we all go through it. You know- those times of change, when everything that we hung our hats of self-esteem on- are cast aside. Perhaps it’s the loss of a job, spouse, friends, health, children, youth and beauty, or some less dramatic change that causes us to experience our share of fear and worry. I’m sure there is no one reading this message that hasn’t experienced it more than once, and I would venture to guess it may even be going on now for many of you. After all, this is a time of huge evolution in the growth of mankind, and in order for growth to occur, we demonstrate change and transition. It’s not always easy and it doesn’t feel good- at least not to some part of us. This is the time, more than ever, to turn to the part of ourselves that never changes, is always the same, whole and complete. But how do we do that when our mind is running rampant with fear, worry and compulsiveness?
1st Step: OBSERVE THE MIND
If you pay attention and just notice, what were you thinking that caused your upset feelings just now? Were you worried about the future? Was it past regrets? Was it some form of either one? Just notice, don’t judge. Look over the last hour-what were some of your thoughts? How many thoughts were anchored in the past? What about the future? You can begin to break out of the mind’s incessant suffering-causing mechanism when you can begin to disidentify from you as your mind to you as the one who uses your mind.
How does the mind work? It judges, worries, justifies, blames and compares. It looks for opposites, comparisons, judgments, etc. The mind when left to run rampant will cause suffering [...]
