The Emotion Machine

Authentic happiness doesn’t mean you’re never sad - but that you understand your sadness when it happens and you see the bigger picture.

Meditation is simply a practice of developing inner awareness toward our experiences. It can be easy in theory, but difficult in practice.

Many people try meditating once or twice, but never develop a steady routine. A big part of this is beginners often get discouraged by common problems that they experience when first starting out.

There are 3 specific problems that I see people struggle with all of the time in meditation. This article is going to describe each one of these, then offer advice and guidelines on how to help you overcome these issues.

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At times it’s nice to just let your thoughts wander and watch where they go. Your mind may take you places that you have been avoiding.

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“Given that an estimated 30 percent of Americans suffer insomnia at some point in a given year, this is encouraging news; it suggests music, under the right conditions, can be an effective, drug-free alternative to sleeping pills. If you’re counting sheep, perhaps you should be doing it to a gentle beat.”

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New TED talk on happiness and work from the behavioral economist and psychologist Dan Ariely!