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Our online store When you make a purchase from our store, it helps us to bring the benefits of meditation to more people! As well as a wide selection of guided meditation MP3s and meditation CDs, our online store also offers statues, jewelry, and household decor. New in our store Enso Ansari Meditation Timer Golden Snow Lion Earrings Guided Meditations for Difficult Times, by Jack Kornfield Stone Buddha Pendant Sandalwood Mala The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest Private Coaching from Sunada  One-on-one meditation or life coaching January 2012 Newsletter :: Happy New Year! Welcome to Wildmind’s latest monthly meditation newsletter. You’re receiving this email because you subscribed to our newsletter mailing list. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the end of this email. Announcing “The Mindful Life,” our NEW introductory meditation course Want a fresh start to your new year? Start down the road to better health, happiness, and well-being with our new course on living mindfully. We’re very excited to offer “The Mindful Life,” a new introductory meditation online course starting January 2. It’s a comprehensive four-week course on mindfulness — not only the how-to of meditation, but also ways to bring more awareness and creativity to your life overall. It combines the wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings with the latest research in neuroscience and psychology — so you get the best of both worlds. Weekly exercises help you extend newly-learned skills into the context of daily life. Click here to learn more » “Mindfulness Meditations for Teens” by Bodhipaksa, now available. Meditation has been shown to reduce the stress that teenagers face, and to reduce harmful behaviors. Bodhipaksa has many years of experience in teaching meditation to teens, and this CD is specifically designed to help them develop the crucial skills of mindfulness, emotional positivity, and resilience that they need in order to find sanity in a crazy world. Click here to learn more » On practice A path to live life to the fullest by Saddhamala In Buddhism there are four reminders — things we should consider to make the most of our lives and to prepare us for death. These reminders can make a difference in how we live our lives, if we keep them in mind and reflect on them each day. Click here to read more » How to deal with anger by Bodhipaksa It seems a lot of people live with hot coals of irritability burning inside them, and that these hot coals have more than ample opportunity to burst into the flames of anger, or to erupt as emotional explosions of rage. Bodhipaksa offers some lessons on how we can handle our anger. Click here to read more » Be the body by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. “The fabric of your mind is woven by your body,” says neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, and being aware of your body and its signals gives you useful information about your deeper feelings and needs. Here he explains how. Click here to read more » Recovery Mondays: a Buddhist approach to recovery by Vimalasara A new monthly blog post, by Vimalasara, a.k.a. Valerie Mason-John. This month: Why is it that so many people make new year’s resolutions, and two weeks later, they are off the wagon? Click here to read more » Waking up from the hindrance of sloth and torpor by Bodhipaksa We all seem to be tired a lot, and when we sit down to meditate we may find that we nod off or sit there in a rather dreamy and unfocused state. This is sloth and torpor — one of the states of distraction that we call the Five Hindrances. Bodhipaksa offers some advice on how to combat sleepiness on the cushion. Click here to read more » Meditation hindrances and how to work with them by Saddhamala Saddhamala outlines the hindrances to meditation — sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety and skeptical doubt — and explains how to work with them. Click here to read more » Admit fault and move on by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. When someone admits fault to us, we feel safer, on more solid ground, more at ease, warmer toward them — and more willing to admit faults ourselves. Turn this around, and you can see the benefits in admitting faults to others. Rick Hanson explains how to practice this important skill. Click here to read more » Book reviews “The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom Selected and Edited by Jack Kornfield” Dayamudra finds much to admire in this inspiring collection of quotations, but finds fault in the inclusion of Gandhi, who supported the oppression of so-called “Untouchables.” Click here to read more » “A Little Book of Love” by Moh Hardin Saddhamala reviews the first book by Moh Hardin, an acarya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and finds that while the advice given — such as to love ourselves unconditionally — is sound, there’s a disappointing lack of examples, and of instruction on how to put the advice into practice. Click here to read more » So many ways to keep in touch! 1. Become a fan of Wildmind on Facebook. 2. Follow our Twitter feed. 3. Get every new article sent direct to your inbox via email. 4. Subscribe to Wildmind’s blog on your Kindle. 5. Follow us on Google+ Meditation in the news Every month we bring you the latest media buzz on meditation. Inside the Pentagon’s alt-medicine Mecca, where the generals meditate Jon Kabat-Zinn gives advice for unhappy news junkies Researchers link meditation and pain-reduction How meditation might help with weight loss David Lynch gives $1 million to teach veterans meditation Copyright © 2011, Wildmind Wildmind, PO Box 212, Newmarket NH 03857, USA. 1-8777-MEDIT8 If you were forwarded this newsletter by a friend and want to sign up, you can join our mailing list here.

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