What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain?

What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain?

Meditating when you’re having physical, mental, or emotional pain is an opportunity for discovery. I’m in my backyard meditating on a gorgeous, early autumn morning in New Orleans. Green and lush but not too hot or humid. The heat of the bayou in the summer has cooled...
Seven Breaths — A Simple Way to Begin Meditating

Seven Breaths — A Simple Way to Begin Meditating

When you think of meditation what do you think of? * Is it someone sitting alone on a mountaintop with their eyes closed? * Is it a group of people sitting in a room on pillows saying, “Oooommm”? * Do the people meditating have robes on? * Are they bald or do they...