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The Power of Now: Why You Should Be Meditating Today

The Power of Now is a book by Eckhart Tolle that talks about the importance of living in the present. Tolle believes that living in the present is the key to happiness and inner peace. He says that most people…

Getting to Know the Benefits of Meditation

Meditation is an ancient practice that has been proven to reduce stress and improve physical and mental well-being. The long list of benefits can be attributed to the increase in activity within the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). I’ve been meditating…

A Million Different Things Make One …And Night: Motivation Habits Meditation

And Night, Meditation #11 is from A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man, and is concerned with motivation, habits and meditation. By David Stone The picture… The picture is persistently reinforced within us that there is someone a…

You don’t meditate? Come on now, You know better…

You don’t meditate? Why not? You usually have better judgment. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small “If a pharmaceutical company developed a medicine akin to meditation–providing such broad health benefits with so few side effects–it would probably be…