According Pema Chodron, in How to Meditate,  “…meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on.” Meditation teaches a knowledge of “self” by experiencing the self apart from what we experience, think or feel.

Through meditation practice we attain a sense of understanding that all emotional and physical states, whether “good and comfortable, pleasing” or “difficult and painful”, will come and they will go. Meditation practice teaches to allow “our self” to experience whatever is happening at the moment without judgement or attachment. We learn to allow and accept it. After all, it is the mind, or the world, or the body and not the “self”.

Jeff Goldstein, in an article in The Buddhist Guide to Mindfulness, believes that being mindful is more than being present. He considers mindfulness understanding how we are relating to the present.  Mindfulness meditation can focus on the body, mind, the environment, ideas or our emotions. Mindfulness can ground us and center us. Mindfulness can help us develop nonjudgmental awareness. Mindfulness allows of to see the coming and going, transient nature of all things. Mindfulness meditation offers us a chance to develop focus and concentration. It can also offer us a chance to obtain spiritual and emotional rest so we can heal.

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MHI is committed to educating society about the health benefits of meditation and mindfulness. We are committed to teaching meditation and mindfulness practices to underserved and marginalized communities. MHI believes meditation and mindfulness are an effective tool for mitigating the devastating emotional, psychological and physiological effects of substance abuse, poverty, social unrest in the urban city centers. We are dedicating to empowering compassionate action toward social change.  MHI is dedicated to providing safe, loving and compassionate spaces for all people, and we mean all people, for meditation and mindfulness practice.

Your compassionate donation supports our efforts to continue this work in Baltimore, Maryland. And your donation supports our efforts to spread this message to the rest of our human family.

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