Mindfulness finding peace in a frantic world is an excellent book for people interested in getting started with mindfulness practice. I did already practice meditation daily for more than a year so I didn’t follow the entire structured program but rather complemented my practice. So either way you will benefit from this book. The book … Read more
This is one of my favorite books. Why? Because I love books that mix traditional knowledge with science. There is much accumulated wisdom in humanitie’s heritage but how can I know that it is true? That’s where science comes in. As an example, cancer rates are much lower in countries with higher turmeric consumption like … Read more
I recently stumbled on Shawn Achor’s Ted Talk about Happiness. I immediately liked what he presented when he talked about the Cult of the average in psychology. What the cult of the average does is, in simple terms, ignore the outliers in our data. Actually in psychology for many years attention was paid to the … Read more
Leí muchos libros sobre meditación y hasta hice un curso de Mindfulness. Aparte de Mindfulness, también practiqué mantra meditation y muchas meditaciones guiadas. Con el tiempo refiné mi proceso y aprendí algunas cosas muy útiles que quiero compartir. El tipo de meditación que más me gusta hasta ahora es el Mindfulness y además me gusta ser … Read more
Karl: This book is the first book I’d choose to recommend to someone interested to start meditating. Most successful people talk about meditation these days. Many would love to meditate but few do. The problem is that many of us think that meditation is somehow complicated, or we think we don’t have time. What is meditation? … Read more
Excerpt from Your 3 best superpowers “HAVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS The next step in preparing to successfully meditate is to have realistic, grounded expectations of your practice before you begin. When I began learning to play the piano (which is a wonderful form of meditation, by the way), I was very enthusiastic. Learning scales was easy, … Read more
Learn how to start your own journey towards happiness What is the greatest good in life? For thousands of years, philosophers and other intellectuals have tackled this question. Most of them, including Aristotle, declared that happiness was the summum bonum, that it is the sense and purpose of the entire human existence. Gretchen Rubin, the … Read more
Do you feel overwhelmed and don’t know what to do about it? Did you hear about the benefits of meditation but you think you have not enough time to practice? Worry no more, in this excerpt the authors of the very recommended book Mindfulness explain how you can meditate in just 1 minute. A one-minute … Read more
Learn how to become happier and more successful through meditation After suffering a panic attack, Dan Harris began a journey to search for a solution. His search eventually led him to meditation. In this book, the author tells how meditation helped him calm down his inner narrator which was the originator of his crisis, and how … Read more
Este es mi primer post sobre meditación. Hace años empecé a meditar pero mi meditación siempre fue muy irregular y hasta lo dejé por un tiempo. Para qué!? Long story short, recientemente empecé de nuevo y esta vez formé un hábito 100% obligatorio, así como duermo cada día, también medito. Por qué meditar? Ya habrás … Read more