Hi, Jerome Here Asking you...How Can I Support You?

Published: Wed, 03/07/12

How Can I Support You Best in
Your Meditation Practice?

Hello -- I hope that this note finds you well, enjoying life and all that it has to offer you. I've been writing this blog for a year now and I feel that it's time to check in with you, dear readers, to see if what I'm offering here for content is meeting your needs.

Below I've provided a few of the featured posts from the site that I think best support one's meditation practice. Do you consider them to be helpful?

Have a look and let me know:

What works?
What doesn't work?
Are there topics or suggestions that you have that will help you in your meditation practice?

Please contact me here - CONTACT - or with the link below. I will respond to ALL suggestions!

How to Meditate - The Most Important Practice...Plus One Great Tip!

There are so many methods of meditation, so many techniques and tips. By offering this post, I am offering to you the most significant advice that I've ever received on how to meditate and how to really be able to work with my mind.I've studied many, many methods of meditation. This "most important practice" that I'm sharing here can be applied to any method and will - undoubtedly - increase the stability of your mind and the strength of your practice.

When we practice anything, meditation, writing, tennis, parenting...we apply our mind to our tasks and to our skills. We might call this "mindfulness" or focus. To be good at anything, we've got to learn how to keep our mindfulness as we do whatever it is that we're doing. Otherwise, we'll find ourselves distracted and not "100%" in what we're doing.

When Do You Allow Thinking During Meditation?

When Do You Allow Thinking During Meditation?

There are a lot of beliefs about meditation, including that one needs to be a monk or away from society, that one needs to chant a mantra or special phrase, or that one needs to hold one's hands in a particular shape, touching the thumb and middle finger.

While these are aspects of particular meditation techniques, they aren't necessary to meditate and to learn to work with the mind. Meditation, in its basic and most simply profound level, is a state of non-distraction. Distraction can be caused my many things, thoughts, emotions, different sense input, for example sounds or sights.

Meditation is More Powerful Than Morphine!

Ongoing research continues to affirm what seasoned meditators have been claiming for centuries, if not millennia. How we experience our world, including our perceptions of internal world, can be dramatically changed, mediated, through meditation.

In the most recent work done at the Departments of Neurobiology, Anatomy and Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Psychology Department at Marquette University, and published in the Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 Apr 6;31(14):5540-8, researchers found the data to indicated that, "...meditation engages multiple brain mechanisms that alter the construction of the subjectively available pain experience from afferent information."