by Sunada Takagi | Aug 9, 2011 | Everyday mindfulness, Meditation, Personal change
This past spring, I attended professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — a program started by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the UMass Medical Center. Basically, MBSR is a way of presenting meditation in a secular context — for health,...
by Sunada Takagi | Jul 28, 2011 | Everyday mindfulness, Meditation
In the metta bhavana meditation practice, we imagine that we’re connected to all humanity and all life – and send our lovingkindness out to them. Here’s a graphic that offers a mathematical perspective on why this makes sense. Originally from...
by Sunada Takagi | Jun 27, 2011 | Meditation, Personal change
One of my clients — I’ll call him Mark — took up meditation to help with his lifelong anxiety. He was all too aware of his tendency to over-analyze and worry about everything. He’d been meditating on and off for two years, gone on retreats, read tons of dharma books,...
by Sunada Takagi | Feb 22, 2011 | Everyday mindfulness, Meditation, Personal change
After tossing and turning through some sleepless nights, I discovered a few things about the discomfort at the root of my insomnia. Realizing that it’s always there on some level, it’s given me something real to work with, day and night. I turn to look at my bedside...
by Sunada Takagi | Feb 7, 2011 | Meditation
I’m very happy to announce that my latest audiobook on mantra meditation is now available on CD! (It was previously available only as an electronic download of a VERY large MP3 file). Led by Wildmind’s Bodhipaksa and yours truly, it contains everything you need to get...
by Sunada Takagi | Feb 1, 2011 | Meditation
You committed to yourself that you’ll meditate. And you do, for a few days or weeks. But then something happens. You miss one day. Then another. And before you know it, you’ve stopped entirely. Hmmmm…. What happened? As a meditation teacher, I’ve been involved in many...
