by Brian Stanton | Jan 9, 2018 | Nutrition, Stress and Meditation
Throughout the course of our busy lives, a mood can be hard to detect. It’s less distinct than a thought or sensation; more like an amorphous cloud of feeling. Because of this, a background mood might go unnoticed for hours, days, or weeks. Let me give you a...
by Brian Stanton | Apr 20, 2017 | Stress and Meditation
Meditation, it’s obvious, has gone mainstream. Once reserved for serious practitioners in the Far East, its many methods have seeped, streamed and now surge into the West. Meditational advice is not in short supply. Some of it is sound. Much of it is not. And...
by Brian Stanton | Dec 8, 2016 | Stress and Meditation
If the purpose of life could be spelled out, it would surely be expressed in terms of happiness. Everything we consciously pursue – eating, talking, reading, and even mollifying our loved ones – are means to an end. And that end is always inner...
by Brian Stanton | Jun 1, 2016 | Stress and Meditation
As any honest contemplative will admit, hunkering down to meditate isn’t easy. Our attention swiftly gets sabotaged by thought. And once thought takes over, it requires mindfulness to wrest our awareness back. Repeating this process ad nauseam trains the mind. ...
by Brian Stanton | Apr 6, 2016 | Stress and Meditation
Most of our lives unfold in the dark. The extent to which this is true, in fact, might surprise you. According to the science, we are merely a speck of awareness in a vast sea of unconscious processing. Many researchers have likened the brain to a...
by Brian Stanton | Mar 21, 2016 | Stress and Meditation
For most of our lives, we feel as though we are piloting our bodies through the world. There is something behind our experience, in the cockpit, at the controls. Our arm doesn’t simply move. We move it. Thoughts don’t just arise. We think them. We feel like...
