YOGA

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Meditation To Reduce Fear and Anxiety

A Meditation To Reduce Fear and Anxiety

We often devote enormous amounts of energy to suppressing our feelings of anxiety, worry and fear.

Unfotunately, this only makes our fears worse! We often push these uncomfortable emotions to the dark corners of our minds, or hide it in areas of our body. Often we make ourselves overly busy to avoid having to sit with anxiety or uncertainty. However, fear thrives in the darkness of ignorance, so although these strategies may work in the short term, when we bury our negative feelings, they only tend to grow bigger. Alternatively, when we become attentive to ourselves, and shine the light of awareness on our feelings of fear, we can observe how it immediately effects us, and how it also changes. With a little time and steady practice we can watch our worries dissolve and disappear altogether.

Have you ever wondered what might happen if you took the time to consciously explore your fears and anxiety?
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An Introduction to Meditation

An Introduction to Meditation

Are you’re feeling anxious or stressed-out and you’ve heard that meditation can help?

But is it safe to just sit down and try to meditate?

And what the heck does it mean to meditate anyway? Where should you begin?

Relax, you’ve come to the right place. In this video, I will answer all your questions, and guide you through a short practice that you can easily start to use on your own.

But first, a little about how I became interested in Buddhist meditation practices…

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All is coming... All is going...

All is coming... All is going...

Somewhere along the way, I realized that “All is coming” meant ALL of it: the good, the bad, the ugly, the miserable, the beautiful, the exquisite, the pain unbearable, the joy insurmountable, the laughter and tears, new friendships and the loss of others, children, lovers, enemies, sickness, hours of being stuck in traffic, the feeling of lightness and oppressive heaviness, unbelievably good fortune as well as terrible hardships... ALL of it.

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