Industrial Mindfulness – Manufacture your happiness
This mindless ramble by The Gregarious Hermit will teach you how to be happy anywhere no matter what you’re doing. Even if it differs from what you’d rather be doing.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness Hike – Wildcat Ridge NJ – General Update
Join me as I give you a few insights into why nature is so relaxing and how you can become absorbed into your surroundings. Why hiking is one of the simplest mindful activities you can do.
Why Guided Meditation Only Works Once
Have you ever tried a guided meditation where you’re being led on a journey through an enchanted forest, or a beautiful beach with the waves gently lapping on the shore – you finish the meditation and you’re floating, peaceful and all your stress has gone? You feel amazing. But then. The next night, you sit …
Silence Your Mind – Refuse to Play the Game
This article discusses how the mind tricks us into thinking we are superior because we meditate. Don’t get fooled. Simply ignore the mind and refuse to play the game. This is the only way to silence your mind. If you understand that the voice in your head that sounds like you, isn’t actually you, then …
Evel Knievel & Mindfulness
Some tasks, hobbies or sports are able to give us the experience of mindfulness without realizing it or without having to resort to a formal process. Do you think Evel Knievel was thinking about his laundry while jumping over flaming cars? Probably not. Certain situations call for such high levels of focus and attention that …
Mindfulness Walk
Mindfulness. We hear that term quite often these days. I for one am very grateful that things like meditation and mindfulness are gaining more momentum. It has tremendous benefits for all. In this short video, I take you along on a little mindfulness walk in nature. I show you what sort of things to look …
Enlightenment Tip – Look at the Space, not the Thing
For those of you jumping into the subject of Enlightenment for the first time, simply put, Enlightenment is the point where the mind loses all control over you and you are able to use the mind like a tool rather than letting it be the master. You don’t become one with the universe, you are the universe. It’s much deeper than that, but lets keep it simple. The process usually starts with the “understanding” that you are not your body and not your mind. At first, this understanding may be completely faith based because you read it somewhere, or stumbled upon a Youtube video that sounded interesting. But through a careful process of meditation and playing games with the mind, you will experience phenomena that seem to back this claim up.
Turn Every Day into a Vacation
Why is it that vacations make us feel good? And why do we remember them so vividly? There’s a lot to unpack in those two questions, so sit back and let’s explore what’s going on. Normal life seems dull Before we can understand why vacations feel so special, we need to dig into how the …
What is the best sort of meditation?
Short answer. Whichever meditation works best for you. In a nutshell, that’s it, we’re finished with this blog post. Whichever meditation works best for you is the best meditation for you. If you go on the internet (duhhhh, you’re already here), and do a search for “meditation”, you will come up with 1000’s of different types. …
Attitude of Gratitude
I love the basic premise of that statement. I also love that it seems to have become more mainstream whether you’re a seeker or not. Having an “attitude of gratitude” is the same as seeing the glass as being half full. Optimistic. Looking at what you have and not what you don’t. But the deeper …
Mr. Rogers
Enlightened Master? I recently watched the Mr. Rogers movie, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”, starring Tom Hanks. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly encourage you to break out the pop corn and fire up whatever streaming service you prefer. It is a truly remarkable movie about a wonderful human being. I’m from …
Find Your Center
We hear that expression a lot in yoga, meditation and spirituality. But what exactly does it mean? What is your center and how do you find it? What is your “center”? We’re not talking about your nearest holistic yoga center. We’re not talking about the center of our galaxy or the universe. We’re talking about …
Why do Gurus Change Their Name?
Have you ever wondered why Gurus and Spiritual teachers change their name? It might not be why you think. It isn’t used as a distinguished title, so that their followers will worship the ground they walk on. It’s not used to put them on a pedestal and is not an egoic status symbol to be …
A Hungry Man Only Sees Restaurants
If your best friend was walking down a busy street towards you, you’d be able to spot them and pick them out of the sea of faces really quickly. It’s not that you don’t identify any other people, it’s just that your mind recognizes that you’ve had past interactions with them. It has a reference point. It found them in the database. Your mind is really good at this and does it so fast, you don’t even consciously notice it. But it’s a totally passive activity. You don’t go, “I’m going to keep track how many cars I see that are like mine”. Or, “I’m going to look for my friend Bob in this crowd of people.”
Should You Meditate in Nature?
When it comes to getting away from the stresses of a hectic modern day life, I can’t think of anything better to do than go for a walk in the woods. Reconnecting with nature for even a few minutes has a wonderful restorative effect on the body. Sunlight warming the skin. Fresh air filling the lungs. All those happy …
Meditation Boot Camp
The boot camp is an in-depth look at meditation. Rather than just jumping right into meditation, I feel it really helps to have a good understanding of the nature of the mind and why we meditate in the first place. If you don’t fully understand the reasons why, then you will just be sitting in an uncomfortable posture with your eyes closed, wondering what’s for dinner, or when that new movie comes out.