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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this is your first visit, you might want to start with the introduction, followed by the first tip on Meditation Posture. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meditationtips.org%2Funcategorized%2Fwelcome'; addthis_title = 'Welcome'; addthis_pub = '';]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Planning Software</title>
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		<title>Awareness Meditation Instruction #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discipline of labeling thoughts Most people find that these instructions sound clear and easy to do, but that in practice, the awareness easily slips away as we begin to daydream and compulsively entertain various thoughts. This is merely habitual and is not considered to be a bad thing at all: in fact this habitual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness Meditation Instruction #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main instruction Of course the most interesting and beneficial aspect of this practice is how we work with the thought process. It is what occurs in the mind that we experience as pleasure and pain, happy and sad, and so on, and we usually try to either grasp or reject what we like or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness Meditation Instruction #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 &#8211; Settling in Now that you have settled into your posture (see previous meditation tips), take 2 or 3 deep breaths just to relax, and then continue to breathe normally.  In this meditation, our breath is something that we always use. It is like an anchor for our awareness to come back to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness Meditation Instruction: Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The essence of this awareness meditation is training your mind in the ability to let go: allowing whatever arises within your mind to simply arise without blocking or grasping at what occurs— just to remain aware and awake for the given period of time that you have decided to practice.  This is not blocking out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Downloads &#8211; Posture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This &#8220; Meditation Downloads&#8221; presents in a pdf document  a list of easy to follow points that are necessary for learning the proper posture for the ancient practice of mindfulness meditation.  These steps are listed individually on this website under the heading &#8221;Meditation Posture&#8221;. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meditationtips.org%2Fmeditation-posture%2Fmeditation-downloads-posture'; addthis_title = 'Meditation+Downloads+%26%238211%3B+Posture'; addthis_pub = ''; Technorati Tags: Body, Meditation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Posture : Tip #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[7 –Practice body and breath awareness I highly recommend that you stop reading here for now and make this body and breath awareness all that you will practice for a day or two, until you begin to feel at least somewhat stable in the posture described here.  Just sit in this way for only a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Posture : Tip #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6 &#8211; Completing the posture We begin by taking a dignified and upright posture.  The most stable posture for the body is to sit cross-legged on a firm but comfortable cushion on the floor.  If that is not possible for you, then sitting on a chair is perfectly acceptable, but the main point is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Posture : Tip #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5 &#8211; Breathing: at the start Take two or three deep breaths and then continue to breathe naturally through your mouth and nose.  Later we will place more attention on the breath, but for now, simply feel how your body moves as you breathe: how your upper body expands and falls as you breathe in [...]]]></description>
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