I enjoy listening to podcasts and lectures on mindfulness and meditation, and here are some of my favorites from last year. Some of them are older than 2020, but they were new discoveries for me.
Most of them are for listening only, but there are also some videos.
I hope they are useful and inspiring to you.
…Continue reading My mindfulness podcast recommendations from 2020
If you have some trauma in your life, you may need to take certain precautions when meditating. While meditation can provide deep relief, calm, and even healing, it can also reveal trauma previously repressed or denied.
…Continue reading Trauma-sensitive mindfulness: PTSD and meditation
In October 2020, I had the honor of being invited to give a presentation on mindfulness for pain relief at The Embodiment Conference. It was an online conference with many of the world’s greatest teachers in meditation, yoga, trauma treatment, and other embodiment modalities.
…Continue reading Video: Mindful Relief Fundamentals for Chronic Pain
To cultivate equanimity, it is often fastest to train it in the body first.
…Continue reading The shortcut to equanimity
(.. and all guided meditation in general ..)
There are many good reasons to use meditation apps to get started with your meditation practice.
However, if they are based on guided meditation, they can keep you from strengthening your attention skills in the best possible way.
…Continue reading Is it time to put away the training wheels? How meditation apps hold you back
Ever since mindfulness became a well-known concept in medical research around 1985, studies of meditation and pain have been central to today’s contemplative neuroscience.
Below is a table with an updated overview of the neurological effects meditation has on pain.
…Continue reading Effects of meditation in patients with chronic pain
You can use your concentration power in four ways when meditating and in daily life. Each has its own benefits.
…Continue reading Four forms of concentration
Motion is lotion. If there ever were an evidence-based miracle pill for health, it would be movement done mindfully.
The body softens. Stability, balance, and coordination improve. The joints are lubricated, while blood and lymph get moving. The mood lightens, and it gets easier to relax.
And that’s just a tiny selection of the wide-ranging effects.
…Continue reading Find your mindful movement (7 recommendations)
Focus on rest is a meditation path where we work with restful states in all of the senses.
This path gives us tools to explore silence around us and silence within us. We cultivate relaxation in the body and peace in the emotions, and the hidden rest that is found in both the outer and inner fields of vision.
…Continue reading Focus on rest: Refresh and release
In this meditation path, you use your attention skills to be mindful of thoughts and emotional feelings.
…Continue reading Focus in: Untangle and be free