The New Relationship Zone… Meditations of the Soul in all Relationships!

  "You’re at work and there’s so much going on around you and you have such an opportunity to be distracted or lash out. That, to me, is where my practice of meditation has really blossomed. - Elizabeth Lesser, The New…

Relationships Zone #1 – Parent’s Loving Care, the Greatest Meditation

When it comes to stress, nothing beats raising children. Every parent understands this. So it’s no wonder family life and parenting are without question the world’s number one opportunity for meditation. At its best we experience…

Relationships Zone #2 – Love & Intimacy With Soulmates

My wife had a Mastermind relationship with a close friend for many years before we met. One a therapist, the other an advertising executive. In the mid-nineties she and I started our own weekly mastermind and haven’t missed since.…

Relationships Zone #3 – Pilgrimages & Journeys, Alive!

Ancient and modern masters often remind us that life is a journey, not a destination, a journey without end. The Tendai Monks of Mount Hiei Japan take this experience to the extreme. Their Great Marathon, as they call it, is a pilgrimage…

Relationships Zone #4 – Celebrations, Ceremonies & Festivals

Religious celebrations, rituals and services are probably the world’s most natural opportunity for group meditation. The architecture, the ritual, the pageantry, scriptural readings, music, singing - whether it’s the Pope saying Mass…

Relationships Zone #5 – Therapy is an Action Meditation

We already know that seventy to ninety percent of all doctors’ visits are stress-related. A third have high blood pressure. We also know that more than half of all Americans see counselors and go into therapy sometime during the course…

Relationships Zone #6 – Self-Help Programs! Action Meditation!

Meditation is one of the key operating principles of the Twelve-Step self-help programs. For example, their 11th Step reads: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying…

Relationships Zone #7 – Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching, Meditations!

Many executives serve as mentors for the next generation of leaders. For some it may be as simple as coaching your son’s Little League team, perhaps scoutmaster of a local troop, or a big brother, a role model for a disadvantaged kid,…

Relationship Zone #8… “MasterMind” Groups Are Meditations

Here’s one my wife and I have been practicing for many years. I first read about the “Mastermind” in the first motivational books I ever read, the early classics of Napolean Hill, Think & Grow Rich, and Success Through a Positive…

Relationships Zone #9 – Public Service, “Doing Unto Others!”

Successful business leaders are often know for their tough exteriors. Meditation and spirituality aren’t highlighted in their job description. Yes, it is okay to attend Sunday church services, even serve meals in a skid row soup kitchen…

Relationships Zone #10 – Leadership, Inspiration and Sacrifice

We can easily accept that the Dalai Lama is a leader, even when he’s sitting in silent meditation. But what about business and financial leaders? We see them as action-oriented, focused on money, obsessed about the bottom line. Somehow…

Breath Counting – You Breathe 16,000 Times A Day, Try “Zoning Out”

"This is a warning: Stress may kill. Literally. (The bodily version thereof.) And it surely kills effectiveness! Antidote? That’s up to you. A few deep-breathing breaks, or two-minute-eyes-closed meditative stints, can be invaluable…

Mindfulness Meditation… 7 Secrets of “Wherever You Go, There You Are”

  "Mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist practice which has profound relevance for our present-day lives. This relevance has nothing to do with Buddhism per se or with becoming a Buddhist, but it has everything to do with waking up…

The Magic of Transcendental Meditation Mantras

"The word mantra means a word or phrase that has power … Mantra is a general name for formulas, verses, or words that are believed to have magical, religious, or spiritual significance. Their purpose is to produce a change in the mental…

Do Positive Affirmations Work? How to Create Successful Affirmations!

"If you have a guy with all the survival training in the world who has a negative attitude and a guy who doesn’t have a clue but has a positive attitude, I guarantee you that the guy with a positive attitude is coming out of the woods…

Creativity Zone! Do What You Love is the Best Meditation for Your Soul

  "Leap, and the net will appear. God has lots of money. God has lots of movie ideas, novel ideas, poems, songs, paintings, acting jobs. God has a supply of loves, friends, houses that are all available to us. By…

Personal Journals! You are One with the Source of all Meditation!

  “Why should we write? We write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because human are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of…

Inspirational Reading… Whatever You’re Reading, You Are Meditating!

"I never wanted to meditate. I don’t know why. I guess the main reason is if I sit down to meditate, I’m not getting my reading done. That’s been my main career—reading. I remember Alan Watts once asked me, ‘Joe, how…

The Relaxation Response – Traditional Sitting Meditation Suddenly Rebranded

"The relaxation response can be elicited by a number of meditative techniques ... There are two basic and necessary steps which I found to be present in practices in every culture: the repetition of a sound, word, phrase or…