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One Mind
by Morgan Dix : Yogi, Meditation Coach, Blogger
How on earth can you squeeze meditation into the accelerating pace of a 21st century lifestyle? On OneMind we explore the art of meditation and mindfulness and interview meditation teachers and every day practitioners. We share tips and find stories that illuminate why this ancient practice matters now more than ever. You’ll learn the latest science and how to bring the benefits of meditation into your work, your health, your play, your relationships, and your life.
Episodes
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OM038: Harvard’s Guide To Tai Chi with Dr. Peter Wayne
What is tai chi? Is it true that this ancient martial art, often referred to as a form of moving meditation, can impact the health of your mind, heart, bones, nerves, muscles, and immune system? In fact, the latest research out of Harvard supports these claims and more. Of course, Tai Chi masters...
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OM037: Meditation & The Miracle Morning with Hal Elrod
Be grateful for adversity, for it forces the human spirit to grow. For surely the human character is formed not in the absence of difficulty but in our response to difficulty. ~Jim Rohn Have you ever come back from death? There aren’t a lot of people on earth who can say they’ve died and come […]
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OM036: Meditation And The Art Of Doing Nothing
I have come to feel that nothing is more tonic—more urgent, in fact—than simply doing nothing. ~Pico Iyer What is the art of doing nothing? Is it just a fancy spin on lazy navel gazing? Or is it, like many suggest, an important refresher for your brain and a profound contemplative practice? These...
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OM035: The Golden Rule of Meditation (Everything You Need To Know)
There are a lot of evergreen meditation tips. There are techniques and tricks you can learn along the way. But I’ve found that one lesson stands above the rest. After meditating for more than two decades, I’ve come to call it the Golden Rule of meditation. The Golden Rule is simple. In essence…
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OM034: Why This Pro Boxer Meditates Every Single Day
Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don’t know yourself you don’t know anything. ~Zen Master Shosan What does a modern-day warrior look like? Does being a warrior have anything to do with meditation? And when was the last time...
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OM033: Why We Need Silence Much More Than We Think
We’re fascinated by the words. But where we meet is in the silence behind them. ~Ram Dass Why do we need silence? That disarming question launched a recent conversation I had with a health reporter. The answer to that question has many parts. Why? Because there’s inner silence and there’s outer...
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OM032: Growth & Insight Through Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Where do meditation and psychology intersect? For several decades, these two models of self-understanding—one based in religion and the other in science—have started to mingle and merge. As mindfulness steadily develops a body of research to support it’s efficacy in treating stress, depression,...
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OM031: Having Trouble Meditating? 5 Common Challenges Every Meditator Needs To Understand
Meditation can be challenging. That’s especially true when you’re starting out. It’s easy to get lost, confused, frustrated, or just bored. As you wade into the deeper waters of contemplative arts like meditation, it’s important to understand the terrain. For example, it’s helpful to know where…
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OM030: 4 Mindful Steps To Manage Stress With Meditation
Do you have a clear way to manage your stress? When your stomach drops out and your adrenaline kicks in, what do you do? According to a mountain of scientific evidence, stress erodes nearly every significant system in our body. That’s why it’s important to develop some conscious tools to help you...
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OM029: How To Be 10% Happier with Bestselling Author Dan Harris
Can meditation make you 10% happier than you already are? According to Dan Harris, the co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline” and the weekend edition of “Good Morning America,” the answer is unequivocally “Yes.” After covering the religion beat for ABC News, Dan discovered meditation and wrote the...
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OM028: How To Practice Basic Mindfulness with Julianna Raye
What can you learn from the practice of mindfulness? Why has this ancient practice exploded into the mainstream? You may have noticed the long-time meditators among us looking bewildered but happy about this geek-to-chic transition. One definition of mindfulness is paying attention to the present...
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OM027: How To Manage Grief And Emotional Pain During Meditation
Awakening self compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ~Tara Brach What’s the right way to deal with emotional pain during meditation? Often, difficult emotions arise in meditation when we least expect it. We don’t tend to welcome those feelings with open…
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OM026: What Integral Theory Can Teach You About Meditation (Part 2)
What if you had a map of everything? I don’t mean the kind of map that gets you from London to Sydney. I’m talking about one that leads you from the befuddled state of confusion to the great state of clarity. From the lowlands of lagging inertia to the summit of inspiring insight? What if this…
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OM025: Taming Your Crazy Mind With Meditation (Part 1)
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life. ~Eckhart Tolle Is your world big or small? Because, often that’s a matter of perspective. For example, do you feel like your entire being is trapped sometimes behind the…
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OM024: 10 Essential Tips To Nurture Stillness In Meditation (And In Your life)
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~Eckhart Tolle Do you struggle to be still? I don’t just mean in meditation. I’m talking all the time. Maybe if you’re like me, you experience...
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OM023: 8 Important Signs Of Your Success In Meditation
Meditation isn’t about what’s happening, it’s about how you relate to what’s happening. ~Sharon Salzberg What does success in meditation look like? Does it mean that you’re suddenly as serene as the Buddha? Does it mean the end of your anger, fear, doubt, and other unpleasant feelings? This is a...
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OM022: How To Practice Mindfulness Meditation with Jennifer Howd
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. ~Tara Brach Do you listen to what your mind tells you? Or do you step back and observe it cooly, knowing that you aren’t what you think? Because, there is a world of difference between…
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OM021: The Two Miraculous Gifts of Meditation with Jeff Carreira
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Is everything ok? I mean right now, independent of whatever is happening in your life, do you think life itself is a positive event? Stop for a second and think about it. Sure, […]
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OM 020: Learning Compassion Through Tibetan Buddhism with Richard Klein
How do you learn compassion? Can meditation teach you? Or does it have to come from your own suffering? Maybe a combination of both? I know well how my own experiences of a broken heart have pierced the veil of selfishness and opened me to the needs, pain, and suffering others. But do we have to...
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OM 019: A 5-Part Meditation On The Power of Silence
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley What is silence? I’ve been chasing silence since I was 20 years old. But why is it important and what can you learn from it? Is it, as some research suggests, essential for our health? Many people…
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OM 018: The Most Popular Meditation Technique on Earth with Tom Bershad
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Have you ever wanted to learn more about Transcendental Meditation (TM)? Arguably one of the most popular forms of meditation on...
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OM 017: The Ashram & The Entrepreneur—Exploring Meditation As A Habit with Sonia Thompson
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible. ~Swami Satchidananda Meditation and yoga have gone hand in hand for millennia. It was only when yoga came to the West that it got reduced to the calming and healthy physical...
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OM 016: Meditation For Life—How To Break Free From Stress & Tunnel Vision
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. -Elizabeth Lesser Do you struggle with stress and anxiety? At times do you feel like you’re life is a little like a hamster wheel that you can’t get off? Many […]
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OM 015: The Lonely Meditator’s Guide To Developing True Grit
What you seek is seeking you. ~Rumi What does it take to keep going when, as the saying goes, the going gets tough? Really tough. We all start on the path of meditation with high hopes, serious aspirations, or maybe just guarded optimism. We come to the practice suffering from stress, anxiety…
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OM 014: 95-Year Old Yogi Shares His Secrets & Why He Doesn’t Fear Death with Joseph Gifford
By penetrating very deeply the present moment, the past and future fall away, and you become free. Fear is the demon that prevents us from letting go of the past and the future, that in turn, keeps us from spontaneously plunging into the present. ~ Joe Gifford Do you fear death? Does the promise...
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OM 013: Brain Science & How To Manage Pain Through Mindfulness with Dr. Jennifer Wolkin
Do you suffer from chronic pain? Did you know it’s possible to reduce your pain through meditation and mindfulness? Are you aware that meditation can help reduce the stress related to chronic pain? Now more than ever, clinical psychologists are using contemplative modalities like meditation and...
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OM 012: How To Practice The Art Of Letting Go
To deal with things, knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight and sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are—conscious being—and don’t stray away from yourself. ~Sri Nisargadatta What is letting go? And what exactly are we letting go of during...
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OM 011: Healing Wounded Warriors Through iRest Meditation with Dr. Richard Miller
It was November 1970 when Richard Miller quietly stepped outside of the first yoga class he’d ever attended and looked up into the clear California night sky. Something was different. What was it? He was relaxed, at peace, and he felt connected to everything throughout the entire universe. He had...
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OM 010: How Silence Transforms The Classroom And Unlocks Young Minds with Laurie Carroll
How would you like to do nothing for the whole year? That’s the very first question that high school teacher and long-time meditator Lawrence Carroll asked his students on opening day. That’s a good way to sell meditation in the math class, but little did his students know, just how…
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OM 009: The One and Only Reason I Still Meditate with Erin Aquin
Why do you want to meditate? People meditate for different reasons. Some meditate to relieve anxiety and stress. Others meditate to connect with the nourishing and restorative silence within. But it’s rare to find someone who meditates for others. But that’s why my friend Erin Aquin meditates. As…
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OM 008: How To Turn Meditation Into A Keystone Habit
Did you know there is actually a science to making meditation a lasting habit? A lot of people struggle to be consistent with meditation. And that’s understandable, because meditation can be challenging. But we can actually make it easier on ourselves. One way to do that is to learn the science…
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OM 007: A Life-Long Passion For Meditation with Igal Harmelin-Moria
Imagine you are in a war zone. You’re squeezed, shoulder-to-shoulder, into an armored troupe carrier day after day in the arid Israeli desert with 15 other people. Mortar shells are exploding nearby. You’re sweaty and dust is everywhere. Now let me ask you a question. Would you choose to meditate...
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How on earth can you squeeze meditation into the accelerating pace of a 21st century lifestyle? On OneMind we explore the art of meditation and mindfulness and interview meditation teachers and every day practitioners. We share tips and find stories that illuminate why this ancient practice matters now more than ever. You’ll learn the latest science and how to bring the benefits of meditation into your work, your health, your play, your relationships, and your life.
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Morgan Dix : Yogi, Meditation Coach, Blogger
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