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Meditation Practices

Explore meditation techniques for every level - from your first sitting practice to advanced methods like body scan, breathwork, and loving-kindness. Each practice includes step-by-step guidance to help you build a meditation habit that lasts.
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Getting Started
What Happens After Now? 

Being in the here and now is what mindfulness is all about. Yes and no, says Barry Boyce. It’s also about being aware of what’s inside and outside, past, present, and future. Once we steady our mind with mindfulness, our awareness shines a light on not just the present moment, but where we’ve come from and where we’re going. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • April 8, 2016
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Expert Interviews
Is Shyness Holding You Back? 

Family therapist Steve Flowers on how self-compassion can free us from the grip of the mental judge and jury that is running, or even ruining, our lives. Read More 

  • Steve Flowers
  • March 22, 2016
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Breathing Meditations
8 Breaths to Joy: A Guided Practice 

Using the breath, this practice encourages compassion and can help focus your attention to better work with roadblocks and difficult moments throughout the day. Read More 

  • Tim Desmond
  • March 15, 2016
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