How to Guide a Meditation (from the 100 Meditation Tip series)

Becoming Self Sufficient with your Meditation. Meditation Tip 23

30 MINUTES OF TOTAL RELAXATION - Nice, Gentle, Slow Guitar

Finding HAPPINESS Within - Meditation Tip 22

University Student Speaks About Meditation

Children can Meditate too! - Meditation Tip 20)

The Mystery of Meditation - Meditation Tip 19)

Take a HOLIDAY for the Mind! - Meditation Tip 17)

INNER PEACE, share it with the world - Meditation Tip 16)

30 MINUTES OF TOTAL RELAXATION - Nice, Gentle, Slow Guitar

Here in the UK its Monday morning!
Must be time for 30 minutes of Total Relaxation :)

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Share Your Experience of Meditation - Meditation Tip 14: 100tips.mindsp...

How to Successfully start a Meditation Practice

100 Meditation Tips 12) We don't need to change our lifestyle

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Meditation Tip - Don't worry about distractions

RELAXING, MYSTICAL, HYPNOTIC MUSIC

100 Meditation Tips 9) Read Around the Subject.

30 MINUTES OF TOTAL RELAXATION - Nice, Gentle, Slow Guitar

100 Meditation Tips - 6) Keep a Straight & Relaxed Back

100 Meditation Tips - 5) Focus on the Quality

SOOTHING MUSIC FOR RELAXATION - Little and Often

100 Meditation Tips: 4) Little & Often

Music for Relaxation - Filter the Information

New Mindfulness and Meditation Classes starting next week in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton: http://ping.fm/qnBqn

Music for Relaxation - Filter the Information
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New Video: 100 Meditation Tips - 3) Filter the Information
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This weekend we have reached the 400,000 listen mark to our online meditations and tutorials - check out what people are listening to here:
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Half Day Meditation Retreat Tomorrow in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton- Minimalism, Mindfulness & Meditation:..http://ping.fm/nQkwR

ENJOY this Guided Visualization & Meditation: Blue Sky Mind - Part 1: http://ping.fm/u13fO

The View from the Mind
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Live Meditation Class tonight in Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton: Happiness - A Simple Guide.
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'Making the mind more gentle through meditation naturally reduces our grasping onto the outside world.'

Special event this weekend in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton - Half Day Retreat, Minimalism & Mindfulness
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Experience Peace of Mind this Weekend:
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Meditation in Schools - The Benefits of a 5 Minute Meditation Practice: http://ping.fm/vu7Ut

Meditation is the direct way to create mental peace

How to Overcome Road Rage :)
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How a 5 minute Meditation practice can help children in schools :)
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Minimalism & Mindfulness - a half day retreat in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.
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Living in the Moment
How to bring Mindfulness into the centre of your life
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Worry Less in 5 Minutes - Guided Meditation
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100 Meditation Tips - 1) Start Gently

Peaceful Music - Listen with the Heart
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Start Gently...
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100 Meditation Tips - 1) Start Gently

Calming the Mind Meditation - take 15 minutes out :)
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Peaceful Music - Start Gently

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An Introduction to 'The 100 Meditation Tips' Series:
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the blissful path of moderation leads to a balance of both body and mind
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Meditation Tip 39/100
Meditation can recharge the mind more than sleep

Hero?

There is an advert at the moment which talks about 'letting your hero out.'

It made me laugh when I watched it.
I started to think about the concept of hero.

The advert was for a new computer game which recreates a war scenario.
Like many computer games it involves shooting and killing someone.
The word hero is often used for those who are prepared to 'give up' their lives for a cause.
Fair enough; but the process of giving up their life often involves taking another life.

Perhaps from a distance the other life which they are taking appears to lack the value of the heroes...is one persons life worth more than another?

A great Indian saint by the name of Shantideva made the point in one of his poems that a real hero is someone who is conquering the inner foe of negativity.
An important statement which is worth contemplating.

Firstly lets take a look at where our problems come from.

It appears as though they come from outside of us & we are innocent bystanders subjected to difficulties as they arise.

A traffic jam for example...

Is the reason why we feel agitated because we are delayed in our journey?
On the surface this may seem to be the case.
The traffic jam is the cause of our frustration if it wasn't there then there would be no frustration in the mind.
Take a closer look the real cause of frustration is the response in the mind to the obstruction, not the journey itself.
If there was no frustration in the mind then there would be no problem.

Where does a problem come from - within or without?
This one point is worth dwelling on in meditation.

If we can recognize that the problems and issues that we experience in our life come from our mind then we are empowered to solve the problem.

Our education and the tone of the media and prominent voices in our society lead us in a different direction.  Generally we tend to view the external situation as the problem and turn to an external action as the solution.
To run around doing stuff to try and solve our problem.

The Quakers have a saying where they say: 'Don't just do something sit there.'

I love this statement as there is so much that we can learn from it.
Sitting there and changing our mind is the most radical action we can engage in as this will change our experience on a deep level.
Changing and moving around external conditions is simply glossing over the issue.

So what does it mean to be a hero according to Shantideva.
To simple change the mind.
This does not require us to pick up a weapon and travel somewhere.
It simply requires us to take a gently look into our mind and distinguish those states of mind that are beneficial and those that are not.
Then begin to reduce the power of the negative states of mind.

How is this done.  The first step is to recognize negative states of mind for what they are.  Clouds passing through the sky of our mind.  Begin to recognize the mind that blames others for our frustrations.

Changing our mind is a powerful action for world peace and will lead to a transformation of our experience.

Some of the organization Mind Space has / is working with

Ambient Music & Video: 'All is Well'