Pragmatic dharma teacher Kenneth Folk and host Michael W. Taft discuss what it means to be mindful, various definitions of being mindful in the moment, the trouble with remaining mindful during an entire sit, and… Read More »Am I Mindful Right Now? with guest Kenneth Folk
by Crystal Goh Over the last decade, the scientific community has produced numerous studies looking at how mindfulness practice influences our minds, our bodies and our behavior. Today, we are beginning to understand some of… Read More »Mindfulness Meditation Helps with Difficult Emotions
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 Michael W. Taft Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam When I started meditating in my teens, I believed in Enlightenment. I was going to get to the Big E, which involved having certain… Read More »Follow the Threads — Mindful Awakening
by Michael W. Taft In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast. Nonduality is often associated with the “doing nothing” schools of meditation, and mindfulness… Read More »Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together
By James Kingsland for The Guardian It may seem unlikely, but a small and growing body of evidence suggests that regular meditation can indeed slow aging, at least at a cellular level. Do people who… Read More »Could Meditation Really Help Slow The Aging Process?
In this author talk at Google, Michael Taft looks at emotional intelligence — how we can work with our own emotions much more effectively using evolutionary biology, psychology, and mindfulness meditation. And Star Wars. A… Read More »Coping with Emotions using Mindfulness
by Michael W. Taft Mindfulness is awesome because it features a few simple rules that can be recombined to create thousands of different meditation techniques. You could practice a different meditation every day for the… Read More »The Meditation Induction — How to Meditate Deeply
We at DY (i.e. Michael and Jessica) want to say, “Thank you!” to our student, friend, and hidden accomplice, Braxton Dudley. Braxton handles a lot of crucial behind-the-scenes functions that keep DY happening day after day. So,… Read More »Meet Braxton Dudley
By Jessica Graham She was a sexy soft butch. She opened doors for me and made out like she was a contender for Best Kisser of the Year. From the moment I saw her, surrounded… Read More »Mindful Sex: Love Drugs
The following is a reprint of an interview with the Reddit community that occurred on Sunday, Feb 15, 2015. You can find the original here. I’ve corrected some typos, added some links, and so on,… Read More »Michael W. Taft’s Q & A on Reddit
Jessica Graham & Michael W. Taft — The Deconstructing Yourself team. photo credit: a nice lady walking by the coffee shop
Help me make this book a reality at Indiegogo — Michael Taft “Michael Taft is steeped in practice and deeply trained in multiple traditions. He is extremely articulate about subtle states of mind and important distinctions in… Read More »Want to Learn Meditation without Religion?