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…

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…

Just for Meditation?

How many of us wish we could do meditation but haven’t. How many of us have taken a meditation class, but never used what we learned? Or purchased a book on how to meditate, filled with dreams and ideas of how we’d sit on that cushion and change our life. And yet…we just never seem…

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…

Way of Tea Meditation

The Japanese tea ceremony began to evolve its own principles (sabi and wabi) that became a large part of the Japanese culture.  After waning for some years early on, Zen Buddhism was a primary influence in the development of the Japanese tea ceremony and ultimately a connection to meditation spaces. The first documented evidence of what’s called…

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…