How to Meditate — A Practical Guide to Finding Your Own Way
Meditation can seem mysterious, complicated, difficult, and time-consuming. But it doesn’t need to be. There’s value in easy, brief, and informal ways of meditating, too. … Read more …
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Getting Quiet for 15 Minutes Can Change Your Life — A Meditation Story
A couple of years into Aikido training I was sitting in silent meditation with Sensei and several dojomates before class, lights dimmed, eyes closed. This … Read more …
Pause… Settle… Presence and Patience Overcome Hurried Distraction
I recently revisited one of my very early posts, where I wrote about my experience in my first 6 classes. That reminded me of the … Read more …
Presence — Being in the Moment
This is the current draft of the chapter “Presence” from my upcoming book Aikido to Zanshin —26 Essays on the Martial Art of Peace, based … Read more …
Movement Helps Children Learn
Aikido combines learning through movement, awareness of our own bodies in space, and mindful moving meditation. In Aikido, students learn experientially, with the guidance of … Read more …
Mindfulness Practices and Compassion
Aikido is often seen as a form of moving meditation, an embodied practice in partnership with others. As such, this and similar research could point … Read more …
Getting Quiet Enough to Hear Whispers
Sensei is offering a mindfulness class (guided meditation and mindfulness exercises, some stretching, …) at the dojo, beginning today. Years ago we used to sit … Read more …
Presence – Being In The Moment
This is the sixteenth in this series of 26 posts, one for each letter of the alphabet, that I am writing during the Blogging from A to … Read more …
Owww… My Brain…
If my brain had a warning like my iPhone does it would be telling me that it’s overheating and needs to shut down for a … Read more …
An Unlimited Supply
Sensei asked, at the beginning of one of our meditation sittings, a question for us to consider: “What if you had an unlimited supply of … Read more …
