Joko Beck Quotes

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

Meditation helps everything.

Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does.

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.