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Dec 4, 2008, MEDITATION FOR REAL LIFE Effective techniques for material and spiritual wealth

Meditation and state of the art approaches for purposeful and results focused living.

Dec 4, 2008, Quiet Bytes

Quiet Bytes meditation newsletter...Sign up for free news, information and encouragement!

Dec 2, 2008, Meditation Links and Resources

Meditation links and resources to encourage both heart and mind...

Nov 28, 2008, Heart Bytes

Stories that warm the spirit....

Nov 24, 2008, Lifechoice Life Coaching

Coaching, known as Lifecoaching is about waking up to your life and finding the right tools to make it happen...

Nov 24, 2008, Meditation Inspirations and Success Quotes

Success quotes and inspiring thoughts to light your way to meditation success...

Nov 22, 2008, Meditation Products

Meditation products books, tapes, cd's to help with meditation

Nov 6, 2008, Conscious Living

Conscious Living is crafting your life by design and using meditation in the 'real world'...

Oct 24, 2008, Law of Attraction

The Law of attraction is often an excuse for laziness...

Oct 21, 2008, NLP techniques and Meditation resources

Wondering is good...having instructions is better...NLP techniques to help your meditation practice...

Oct 20, 2008, Enlightenment and meditation

Enlightenment and meditation includes those flashes of understanding that occur along the way...

Oct 20, 2008, Types of Meditation

Types of meditation are as varied as types of people, but there are some common themes...

Oct 16, 2008, Meditation Technique

Meditation technique for a simple and practical way for beginning your practice.

Oct 13, 2008, Heart Coherence

A simple process for feeling better, now...

Oct 8, 2008, Free Online Guided Meditations

Free online guided meditations...the line between meditation and trance thins here, doesn't it?

Oct 8, 2008, Audio Meditations

Audio meditations to develop your practice, so close your eyes and open your ... minds

Oct 8, 2008, Meditation Facts,Help Guides

Meditation facts and basic information about practice along with some interesting brain information related to effective meditation.

Oct 7, 2008, Goal Setting sheets

Free downloadable goal setting sheets

Sep 19, 2008, Stop Complaining!

If we complain about something we etch connections in our mind thatmake it more likely we will fall into this negative mental state. Thisis an aspect of mindfulness that we practice in daily life. We need topay attention to the quality of our thoughts and realise that we canchange them. Jack Canfield writes that we complain when we have an ideaof what would be better but are unwilling to make the effort to achieveit! Harsh but true.You can read more about Jack Canfield's Success Principles by followingthis link: http://www.lifechoicemeditation.com/success_principles.html

Sep 8, 2008, Meditation and Depression: When living hurts

Meditation and depression: How we pick up our practice during times of personal crisis is an important aspect of real life practice

Sep 8, 2008, Sedona Method

The Sedona Method is a perfect application of meditation to daily life...

Sep 8, 2008, About me Richard Ingate

Richard Ingate is a writer of The Chinese Secret and webmaster for LifechoiceMeditation. com

Sep 8, 2008, NLP

Using NLP with meditation in a joined up way takes a certain amount of skill and investigation...

Sep 8, 2008, Meditation Books

The only meditation books I recommend are ones that I own and have found useful...

Sep 8, 2008, Meditation Articles

Meditation Articles to support and inform our practice

Sep 8, 2008, Meditation and Illness

Meditation and Illness...Research shows meditation is a useful treatment for many illnesses, but meditators still get sick! What is going on?

Sep 8, 2008, meditations for Manifesting

Meditations for manifesting...simple processes to make things happen

Sep 8, 2008, The Chinese Secret

The Chinese Secret is a step by step method for manifesting...

Sep 8, 2008, Benefits of Meditation

The science and the anecdotal evidence both seem to agree that the benefits of meditation are quite far reaching...

Sep 8, 2008, Awareness

Awareness is at the heart of our journey through meditation. At diferent times it is both the journey and the destination...

Sep 6, 2008, Amitabha Society

Mainly Resources for the Pandan Indah Amitabha Society, with added information about Pure land practice...

Aug 9, 2008, Success Principles 2

Jack Canfield's Success Principles for people who meditate...

Aug 7, 2008, Success Principles

Jack Canfield's groundbreaking work on success principles seen through the eye of mindfulness...

Jul 21, 2008, Meditation and PositiveThinking

Positive thinking is one of the more pro active aspects of meditation in daily life...

Jun 5, 2008, Contact me

A place to get in touch and let me know what's on your mindfulness...

Feb 5, 2008, Mind the gap

One of the processes we engage with during meditation is to watch our feelings and thoughts. This process can be done more or less skilfully and with greater or lesser refinement. In essence , though, we practice a conscious awareness of what is normally unconscious. The thoughts and feelings that normally trigger behaviour , now become the subject of a patient attention.

This gradually begins to give us choice. To begin with the choice is to not have to follow the conditioned habits. I learn that I do not have to have that bar of chocolate, or be angry. I can feel the feelings and be patient with them.

This is a valuable and lifelong process that can be refined to a high level. There is another benefit of this way of practice.

In seeing that we are separate from our thoughts and feelings we begin to have choice about which ones to encourage.

As we are not living in monasteries, it makes sense to support positive emotions and thoughts that will support us in our business life.

Positive thinking does not come from no where and does not exist in a vacuum. You probably have all the thoughts and feelings you need. Meditation allows you to be selective and skilful with them.

This is quite a novel concept for many: we are not at the mercy of our feelings. We really can choose. It takes skill and strength to be able to do so, but it is a learnable skill.