Mindfulness Meditation

  “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Mindfulness Meditation is a powerful tool for continuous brain development and there are real, measurable, physical changes that take place in the brain of those who meditate regularly.

Studies conducted by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital using magnet-imaging have shown that in as little as eight-weeks of practice people new to meditation can dramatically strengthen the brain structures associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection

Meditation builds your capacity to embody compassion and detachment.
First toward the reactive patterns of your own body/mind and then toward the rest of your world. It builds the neural networks, the emotional resilience, and the self-awareness that expands your choices and opens your possibilities.

There is a state of wisdom and love within you now. By turning the light of awareness within and opening your mind and body to that light, you can let go of reactive patterns naturally.

There is a state of wisdom and love within you now. By turning the light of awareness within and opening your mind and body to that light, you can let go of reactive patterns naturally.
Through meditation you build your capacity to witness, experience, and bless the patterns of reactivity that have been conditioned into your body/mind. You build your capacity to embody balanced being in the face of reactivity.
You can do this by taking three minutes to do the following:

1. Sit still with your eyes closed.
2. Be aware of your breath.
3. Bring to mind something beautiful, like a flower or a sunset.
4. As you breathe in imagine that you are breathing the beauty of that flower into your mind and body.
5. Feel the beauty spreading through your nervous system.

Kaizen starts with asking yourself a simple question: "What's the smallest change I can make to [insert basic goal here]"? The goal should be succinct and the question a simple one. Our subconscious brain then mulls over the question in the background as you go about your day, periodically coming back with creative, new answers as it processes the question. What's really interesting, is that because the question is a simple one, answering it is not stressful! It's actually fun coming up with creative Kaizen solutions to your problems, which encourages you to think of more and more.

Your mind would like you to believe that all of your thoughts are correct. One of the ways it does this is by having you think that you and it are one. The truth is your mind is just one part of you; it isn’t you.
Being able to separate your thoughts from your sense of self is one of the most useful things you can do. Try this: think of yourself as being made up of four parts.

1. Mind
2. Physical body
3. Heart
4. Spiritual aspect

This means: You. Are. Not Your. Mind. Your mind is just a tool for you to use.
All of your thoughts and perceptions are filtered through your unique belief system, and it’s this filter that causes negative thoughts. The negativity is in the filter. When you try to “heal” and “grow,” what you’re trying to do is change the filter; you’re trying to change your belief system. You are the bit underneath your thoughts.