Meditation Spaces

Creating a Meditation Space

Why is it important for meditation spaces to be dedicated just to meditation? How do you choose the right place for a meditation space in your home or room? What do you need to consider in that choice? By now you probably have an understanding that this adventure of creating your own meditation space can…

Altars in a Meditation Room

Not every meditation space needs an altar, but most use one for many reasons. An altar helps focus your intention and inspire your practice no matter what it is. Placed on the altar can be beautiful things that inspire you. For instance an image of someone such as the Lady of Guadalupe, or Shakyamuni Buddha….

Color in Your Meditation Space

Choosing the right colors for your meditation space isn’t always easy. While in the world of art, color is a study that connects with many different places in the mind, you can also use that understanding when considering a meditation space. In this article we will learn a little about colors and how the eye, the…

Water Feature and Meditation

Almost everyone knows that a water feature in your home or meditation space can bring a calming effect to anyone who is close to it, but has anyone explored why? I would never pretend that I have any secret knowledge, but I’ve collected some interesting pieces of information that might give you some different insight…

Small Meditation Spaces

Many think that because they live in a small space, townhouse, apartment or studio, they can’t have a space for meditation. Take heart! That is not true. Here are some ideas on how you can create a space out of almost no space at all. This little room is the loft office in my townhouse….

Choosing a Meditation Cushion

How Important is the Right Cushion? How do you start in choosing the right meditation cushion? In truth, a perfect meditation cushion can support the perfect meditation, and an uncomfortable cushion can ruin the best effort even if the intention is perfect. Most people don’t realize that this important decision depends completely on each individual’s…

Technology and a Quiet Mind

So our minds almost never rest until we fall exhausted into bed. In todays world our minds are being constantly entertained by phones, tablets, tv’s and computers – so much so that we almost never have a moment to quiet or calm our thinking. In truth, our minds almost never rest until we fall exhausted into…

Meditation Music

Music is one of those greats gifts in the universe that can set off different thought processes and reactions. Why not use it to set the mood or support meditation? Be careful about choosing music from sources you do not know or are not familiar with on the web. It’s better if it’s from a…

Now that You Have the Meditation Space…?

So you now have a new meditation space set up in your home or office, and are really ready to move forward to commit to that daily sit down when you actually work on that busy mind that keeps you stressed and overworked every day. If you’re uncertain on how to take those next steps,…

7 Great Meditation Space Links

Here are 7 great websites that have information about creating a meditation space in your home. The trend and belief that this may be the answer to why so many want to meditate, but so few stick with their meditation. Our website is a great resource, and these links will take you to articles that…

Meditation Apps

Some of us have full days, and stressful lifestyles so we can’t always remember to meditate. Here is a solution: smart phone and tablet apps for meditation. Most of these applications have alerts or reminders, and are great choices to use in your meditation space in your home paired with bluetooth speakers. Some have guided…

Meditation and Art

Part of a perfect meditation space are the visuals, which should support your practice. These images might just be peaceful and quiet, or they may depict a particular image that brings peace to you. It might be religious such as an sacred image of Jesus or Mary. Or it might be the Buddha, or some…

Light and Your Meditation Space

The sun comes up in the east, the morning often has sunlight even if the day has clouds. The sun will quietly peak between the horizon and clouds before rising too high to be seen, blocked by the clouds. But what happens when the sun directly streaks into a meditation space ? If you have…

Meditation is Better Then Spinach

When I was a kid I used to watch Popeye, the cartoon. He often ended up with a swami giving him a magic lamp, and some mean giant- Brutus, right? – would attack him, and he’d eat spinach and it would all turn out better because he got strong. Well… let me tell you; Meditation is…

The Artist’s Eye – Meditation Space

The Artist’s Eye The afternoon sun slants through the blinds, and the white shears that hang to the floor billow in the breeze coming through the window. There is a hawk that lives high in the large pine tree outside the house, and now and again he gives his high pitched caw that brings to…