Read Our Meditation Stories
Insights, Experiences, and Answers
In this section, you’ll find blog posts written by our members, sharing their journeys and how meditation has helped them find happiness, overcome challenges, and achieve personal growth. Explore different categories to find the stories that resonate with you, and let these experiences guide and inspire your own meditation practice
Anxiety/Stress Relief, Health, Sleep
13 Tips for a Healthy Nighttime Routine
April 19, 2021 It’s probably no surprise that regularly getting less than 7 hours of sleep affects your health and well-being in several ways. Sleep deficit can result in: Increased risk of accidents Increased risk for diabetes Higher blood pressure...
The Only Certainty is Uncertainty
Most of the time we like to feel like we can be secure in our expectations of how things will turn out but reality isn’t always designed to fit our expectations. When it doesn’t, it can test our ability to adapt and show us just how attached we are to our...
What has your life taught you so far?
I want to share a conversation I had with friends who meditated together recently. I meditate every day, either at a nearby meditation center or online with others. The theme of the day was "anxiety." We each wrote down our anxieties in our notebooks and then shared...
Awareness, Concentration, Self-Development
Admitting To Be False
I was just trying to be a good person. I was so convinced that I was righteous – the noblest person of all. But I found out that the person I thought I was, was just an image I conjured up in my mind, a kind of story of me. Putting most of my attention on this false...
How can I control my anger?
Meditation can help control anger. I practice a method of discarding my emotions. Meditation helps me see and release my anger, saving me. —- Here is a short story of how I controlled anger: Monday I share a home with a flatmate. On Monday night I came home from work....
Letting go of thoughts, and making room for life
You may have seen the reports from brain scan research sponsored by the National Science Foundation: They discovered that the average person has up to 60,000 thoughts a day, of which 80% were negative, and a staggering 95% of those thoughts were repetitive from the...
Beauty, Sleep/Recovery, Relationships
What are some ways to let go of resentment?
Write it out – write freely and as honestly as possible. Exercise – this actually is just a distraction, but I find it to be a helpful distraction. Accept – that people only speak and act according to what they have in their minds. In simple words, if they don’t...
Can depression and anxiety make you feel like you’re not in love?
Unfortunately, yes, and after losing my exwife, years of introspection, and being able to break free from the depression and anxiety, I would love to share my experience to help you. UNDERSTANDING THE MIND When we have an emotion, it covers our whole being. Someone...
How do I overcome my inferiority complex?
“Remembering wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.” (Buddha) Emotions are normal part of our lives, varying from positive to negative. We don’t like having these negative feelings (etc. sadness, anger, loneliness, fear, rejection) because they can be difficult...