Category: Emotional Health

Wisdom from Dogs

11/24/2016

By Lorraine Alexander

There's a little measure of life's wisdom in each furry canine.

If you've ever owned a dog, or spent any quality time with one, you'll agree with one point. Dogs for the most part enjoy life by living in the moment - and there is a lot to be said for that. Yes, there's a little measure of life's wisdom in each furry canine. So what's the deep secret that we can learn from dogs? It's actually quite simple, when we live in the moment, as dogs do, we live a fuller, more rewarding life.

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Finding Balance with Meditation: Easy Natural Stress Reduction

10/23/2016

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Can we change our life experience?

By Lorraine Alexander

Americans have become accustomed to a stressful lifestyle. We know stress affects health, sleep, emotions and behavior. How can we change this pattern?

There is a quote by Charles R. Swindoll "Life is 10 percent what happens to you, and 90 percent how you react to it." Have you ever noticed that people often react to the same stressors quite differently? While one person is deeply affected by a stressful event, another may take it in stride. Why? The answer is simple. Some of us have found our way back to that place of balance.

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Meditation: The New Sustainable Practice

9/1/2016

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Sustaining the Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Meditation

NORTHBAY BIZ Magazine - September 2016
Meditation: The New Sustainable Practice
By Lorraine Alexander, DASA Meditation

Memory and learning naturally decrease as we age.
Meditation can help combat this trend.

During the past decade, I’ve heard the word “sustainable” used almost exclusively in the context of environmental issues. Yet the term simply means the ability to last or continue for a long time, without depleting resources. A personal resource is an available means that’s afforded by the mind, or by one's personal capabilities—a source of supply, support or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed. Shouldn't health and brain function be considered a source of support?

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Chasing Harmony: Raising the Human Spirit through Meditation

7/20/2016

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"Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.” – Ernest Holmes

After the hustle bustle of three connecting flights and two hours in traffic, I finally arrived home. It felt like someone poured a bucket of stress over me.

Hazmat protocol 101: stress cleanup

I’ll admit the hectic pace of travel, coupled with a three-day intensive training was rigorous, even for me. It took me awhile to shake it off, but finally, I regained my balance, my harmony, my groove. On occasion, life just seems to have it’s own way of challenging us to the extreme.

As a long-time meditator, I was reminded of how well meditation combats fatigue, stress, and feelings of being challenged. During my trip, my meditations were surface - not nearly as deep as usual, which was an indication that I was out of sorts and under stress. But once I returned home, and had time to get back into my routine, I returned to those deep meditations quickly. And with those deeper, more profound meditations, I found my peaceful, happy, content feelings returned. The stress had finally melted away.

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The Key to Fulfillment - Self-Actualization Through Meditation

6/29/2016

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"Being anything less than you are capable of being, you most probably will be unhappy all the days of your life.” ~Abraham Maslow

As Americans, we've been fed the typical model of success - it all seems like the perfect plan for a deeply satisfying life. Then why do so many highly successful people approach the later part of life unhappy - feeling as though something significant was (and is) missing?

Revisiting Abraham Maslow

While studying psychology in graduate school at Duquesne University, I was introduced to Abraham Maslow's work and read parts of his groundbreaking book, Motivation and Personality. His extensive studies show that people who do not fully use their potential, are not truly happy in life.

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Wisdom from Dogs

There's a little measure of life's wisdom in each furry canine.

Finding Balance with Meditation: Easy Natural Stress Reduction

Can we change our life experience?

Meditation: The New Sustainable Practice

Sustaining the Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Meditation

Chasing Harmony: Raising the Human Spirit through Meditation

The Key to Fulfillment - Self-Actualization Through Meditation

Revisiting Abraham Maslow

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Celebrating 50 Years

Wisdom from Dogs

There's a little measure of life's wisdom in each furry canine.

Finding Balance with Meditation: Easy Natural Stress Reduction

Can we change our life experience?

Meditation: The New Sustainable Practice

Sustaining the Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Meditation

Chasing Harmony: Raising the Human Spirit through Meditation

The Key to ﻿Fulfillment - Self-Actualization Through Meditation

Revisiting Abraham Maslow

Blog author

Categories

Archives

DASA Meditation

Contact Info

Celebrating 50 Years

The Key to Fulfillment - Self-Actualization Through Meditation