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
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...
Accepting Change
Can you accept change? I could not accept change and I hid it so well. It became clear to me after reflecting on my life and observing my mind and its patterns. Let me tell you more about this. I liked the way things were in my childhood, my blue carpet, my little...
How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection For Good
Rejection hurts. There’s no sugar-coating it. In fact, rejection appears to activate the same regions in the brain that physical pain does. If you’ve experienced it, you probably don’t want it to happen again. Photo by Alex Green Why Do We Feel Rejected? Rejection is...
Beauty, Sleep/Recovery, Relationships
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...
What’s the best relationship advice you can give someone?
In our daily life, we encounter people who don't fit me. And sometimes, it causes us a lot of emotional exhaustion and stress. If you understand the cause of the conflict and let it go, you can be more detached from your emotions and can see the situation more...