CategoryMindfulness & Meditation

Graduation: Endings and Beginnings

Graduation: Endings and beginnings

Are you worried because of the uncertainty of what's next? Will you graduate? Will you get that primo job? Will you be successful in graduate school? What will happen with your partner this summer? Depending on how you look at it, endings are also beginnings.

I just want to relax, already.

Isn't meditation supposed to be relaxing? Find out why it doesn't always work that way. And what to do about it.

Most people don't decide to learn meditation because they want to feel more stressed. So it can be disappointing to find yourself caught in anxiety or frustration during meditation. Fortunately, there is a way to work with uncomfortable feelings that come up during meditation.

How to solve the busy-mind problem.

“My meditation was bad today. I can’t focus. My mind is just too busy.” This is by far the most common complaint I see written on my students’ meditation logs. Often my students see it as a problem of such magnitude that it means they're incapable of meditating or of experiencing any benefit from meditation.

The Mindful Twenty Something by Holly Rogers
“Wise, but not obscure. Practical, but lighthearted and inspiring.”

— MIRABAI BUSH, co-founder and Senior Fellow of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

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