In this episode emotions researcher and meditation teacher Eve Ekman speaks with Michael W. Taft about embodied emotions, the difference between suppression and healthy expression, impermanence of sensation and moment by moment contact with emotion,… Read More »Emotions, Stress, and Heartbreak – with Eve Ekman
by Michael W. Taft I have to admit it: Pokémon Go is one of the funnest games I’ve played in a long time. I’m old enough to have missed the Pokémon phenomenon when it first… Read More »The Mindful Wisdom of Pokémon Go
by Jessica Graham Before mindful sex I was one of the many who have no interest (aka intense dread) in looking into my partner’s eyes while we had sex. The last thing I wanted to… Read More »Mindful Sex: Eyes Wide Open
Using Mindfulness to Work with Overwhelming Feelings by Michael W. Taft In the movie Blade Runner, the replicant Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, has a problem. As a genetically-enhanced human-like Nexus 6 organism, he’s been given… Read More »Coping with Intense Emotions in Meditation
Michael Taft – “The Physicality of Emotions” from Ego the Book In this short video, Michael W. Taft discusses the difference between the embodied sensation of emotions, and the conceptual understanding of emotions.
by Michael W. Taft Why do you meditate? There are lots of possible reasons. I started because I couldn’t stand my own mind, and realized that it was not only the source of most of… Read More »Meditation on No-self
By Jessica Graham “Like someone is trying to slice my sternum open from the inside of my body.” “Like prickly pins in my stomach.” “It feels like a hollowness of air in… Read More »Broken Heart/Open Heart
Back in October we posted an article about meditation helping students. While introducing mindfulness to students is incredibly important, shouldn’t teachers be learning to meditate too? I was very happy to come across this Science… Read More »Mindful Teachers
In the late 1990s, Jane Anderson was working as a landscape architect. That meant she didn’t work much in the winter, and she struggled with seasonal affective disorder in the dreary Minnesota winter months. She… Read More »Teaching The Neurons To Meditate