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Eugene Cash examines the paradox that awareness of the inevitability of death can enliven our lives and our relationships. You can find his article here: The Paradox of Maranasati Practice Larry Rosenberg provides a good description of approaches to practicing with awareness of death as a way to re-orient our priorities in life, and through… Continue reading

The body scan is a powerful meditation for increasing our awareness of the body, and it became an important part of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the mindfulness program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn to help those with cancer and chronic pain at the University of Massachusetts General Hospital. You can find out more about his… Continue reading

Cortland Dahl and Richard Davidson are well known scientific researchers at the University of Wisconsin. Both are also longtime practitioners of Buddhist meditation, and Cortland Dahl is a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. They developed a framework for wellbeing based on the research results that they and others have developed in the last… Continue reading

Jack Kornfield introduces mindfulness of breathing in an article that describes the basic practice and provides a brief guided meditation on mindfulness of the breath. You can find his article here:  A Daily Breathwork Meditation The Greater Good Science Center has a good introduction to mindfulness of breathing with a verbal description of the practice… Continue reading

Spirit Rock has a practice guide that provides a great introduction to the four foundations (domains) of mindfulness and ways in which we can practice with them. The article includes a description of each domain, or area of experience, and links to guided meditations and talks on practicing with each domain. You can find their… Continue reading

The website Mindful.org has a good introduction to mindfulness from a secular perspective, with basic information on what mindfulness is, plus many suggestions and guided meditations for learning to practice mindfulness, both formally and in daily life. You can find their article here: Getting Started with Mindfulness Phillip Moffitt provides a helpful introduction to mindfulness… Continue reading

Phillip Moffitt describes several different forms of doubt and suggests ways in which we can practice with it, both in meditation and daily life. You can find his article here: Lost in Doubt? Gil Fronsdal also has a good discussion of doubt. He mostly focuses on the differences between skeptical or investigative doubt and doubt… Continue reading

Dr. Jud Brewer is a researcher and professor at Brown University who specializes in neuroscience, psychiatry, and mindfulness, especially around the area of habit formation and letting go of unhelpful habits. He has a well-regarded book on anxiety, Unwinding Anxiety, and has developed apps and teaching programs to help people deal with anxiety and other… Continue reading

Matthew Sockolov describes restlessness and worry and their relationship to getting lost in the thinking mind. Those thoughts often focus on things we have no control over. The post describes several ways of relating to restlessness and worry, including the practice of mindfulness of our thoughts. You can find his article here:  Letting go of… Continue reading

Gil Fronsdal has a discussion on his website of sleepiness and lethargy, which he refers to as sloth and torpor. He looks at some of the ways that low energy states can arise and discusses several ways of investigating it and relating to it. You can find his article here: The Hindrance of Sloth and Torpor… Continue reading