The Meditation Blog

. A New Film by Carol Morley “Dreams of a Life” gave me an emotional insight into how possible it is to really know my friends. Its a beautiful study of loneliness, friendship and personal responsibility. Continue reading | 1 Comment

Alhagy Jagne, local organiser in Acem Gambia, died last October while on a visit to family in Oslo, Norway. He was 63 years old.

Mr Jagne learnt Acem Meditation while studying education in Norway in the 1970s. He returned to his native country with an equivalent to a Master´s degree and made a career in the Trust Bank in the… Continue reading

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Meditation can hardly take the credit for all the changes in the life of German artist Henrik Nolte, but it has played an important part. He sleeps better, and he paints better too. In particular, his watercolours are full of sensitivity and psychological depth, but have retained some of the sharp edges and humour that used to be typical of his earlier works. I met him at a summer retreat in Acem in 2011. Continue reading

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Like dreams at night and slips of the tongue during the day, the loss of the meditation sound during meditation brings us into a fertile no-man’s land where conscious and unconscious impulses intermingle. In contrast to dreams, meditation brings us closer to the unconscious while we are still awake and aware. While dreams provide much-needed mental hygiene, meditation goes one step further and helps us clearing new ground. Continue reading | 3 Comments

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At a retreat with long meditations, your muscles relax, and your mind becomes more rested and ready for new challenges. Stimulating group discussions improve your technique, enhance the effect of meditating, and provide opportunities for existential reflection. The Meditation Blog gives you a calendar of upcoming retreats. Continue reading | 1 Comment

The movie  ”A Dangerous Method” describes the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, his then “crown prince” Carl Jung, their famous female patient Sabina Spielrein and the relationship between the three. It is a highly interesting movie. The script writer Christopher Hampton has pulled the  trick of condensing these very interesting times on the eve of the 1st World War, when so… Continue reading | 4 Comments

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Like a jazz musician, a meditator needs to relate to the spontaneous impulses in his mind and make them an integral part of his actions. That’s hardly possible if he wants to avoid making mistakes. In the long run, the mistakes of meditation become manifestations of our personality patterns, which are brought to the surface and thereby allow us to understand and transcend them. Continue reading | 6 Comments

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By locating the roots of many problems in our childhood rather than external forces like ghosts or previous lives, Freud gave us ownership to our own lives. But even so, what we do to others may turn out to be just as important for our self-realisation as what others once did to us. Continue reading | 4 Comments

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A visit to Cracow in Poland means you have a lot of things to see and do, but a visit to Auschwitz may not be at the top of the list for everyone. I decided to join a tour during my recent visit. It took about 7 hours, with a lot to see and learn; what it was like during World War II. The guide in the concentration camps -… Continue reading | 6 Comments

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 A friend of mine recently sent me a link to an article from the business magazine Inc., with the title “Sit. Breathe. Be a better leader.” Since she knows that I am a meditator, she asked me: you probably already know this, right?

The article explains how meditation has helped some American leaders to improve life quality and relax, but also deliver more at work.  Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s… Continue reading | 4 Comments