I have a lot of sympathy for this question, I could find an effective solution to this question, and I’d like to share my experience as a meditator about how I could change myself.
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Kids are also stressed out. You probably have heard about adults who are stressed out, but what about kids?
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I, who was more negative than anyone else, gained freedom of mind by throwing away negative thoughts through meditation.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Improvement Tips – What is an example of being mentally strong?...
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I was bullied for a year when I was in 4th grade. I was 10 years old. My experience at this time was heartbreaking, and I think it had a big impact on how I viewed people I met and who I made friends with.
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As soon as I saw this question, two memories came to my mind. The first one is what my brother, who was two years younger than me, said when I was 17.
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Father. The master of my universe, the proud and scary being, my father. My dad was that kind of person to me. He was born as a Christian.
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I broke up with my boyfriend of 7 years at the age of 27. Three months after I broke up with him, I got a call from him. He asked if I could see him on the weekend.
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I might’ve been too extreme, but I used to once define love as an incomplete, selfish obsession laced with contradiction and physical greed. That was my psychological state before I realized its true meaning.
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They had been married for over 30 years, but still considered themselves newlyweds. Several times a day they would call each other to talk about the chores, children and daily routines. While serving as the presidential education secretary and assistant secretary of the Ministry of Education, Ki-un’s “gentle charisma” was widely known among his peers and public officials. Publicly, he had taken efforts in his work to create change through dialogue and cooperation. He was expected to balance his charisma and public appearance with his intimate home life. And in this time, despite the couple’s public view of perfection, a distance began to grow into a great and painful divide within their hearts. It was only after practicing Meditation that the couple found this distance growing smaller and their love for one another finding new ground.
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A wife said she always sacrificed for her husband’s development in anticipation of a happy future. The husband said he always tried to do the same because he wanted to do whatever would please his wife.
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Santa Clara Meditation Q&A by Members – Do you regret your marriage, and why?
Of course, yes I did more than 1,000 times, but I don’t anymore. Our relationship is positively getting better everyday. I have sincere gratitude for him and I thank meditation for helping me get here.
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Santa Clara Meditation Q&A by Members – How can you improve your communication skills?
Have you ever experienced before? Financial crisis! Yes, of course I have. I and my hubby were in debt to a bank. We had to manage to pay off our debt in a year. Every thing looked like gloomy. I felt starved as well as stuck. I experienced that I had big problems to communicate with my partner when we had a financial problem. At that time, we had bitter quarrels over money matter and sometimes we hadn’t spoken each other for days.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Even a Strong Gyeong-sang Province Man Respects His Wife
It happened when I was at this meditation with my wife at the Main Center. I lined up in front of the restaurant to have lunch. My wife came to me and hugged me. I was surprised. She was also surprised. My husband and I were very poor at expressing our minds. In particular, the wife was not a person who would usually say, I like my husband. To my amazement, my wife laughed, saying, “After letting go, I feel so peaceful and good.”
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – Live in a World Where I Hate Nobody
I majored in nursing in Daegu and worked at a university hospital and a mental hospital, and since 1999, I joined a public health center and have been working as a nursing public servant.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – This Meditation, When Looking at the Interpersonal Relationships of Children, It’s Possible to See Their Parents’ Minds
My oldest son had a lot of inferiority and was negative about everything. He wasn’t confident and did not get along well with his friends. I didn’t want to see him like that so I told him to square his shoulders and live proudly. Although he answered, “I understand,” his behavior didn’t change. In middle school his homeroom teacher told me that he needed someone to talk to, that he seemed to be very anxious and frustrated. After that I tried to have a conversation with him, but he didn’t open up to me.
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Santa Clara Meditation Empty Mind – 7 Years Of Marital Conflicts And A Happy Ending
In early 2007, my wife and I went to court to file for divorce. We got back together to see if we still had any remaining feelings for each other and seven months later, we went to court again. We still blamed each other and each of us thought the other was wrong. It was an extreme battle of our pride. Finally, I got my divorce papers notarized and I went to the judge. We had reached the point where, if either one of us submitted the divorce documents, it was going to be final. But at that time, neither one of us wanted to go through with it.
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Santa Clara Meditation Discover The Best Life – How to be a good parent
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – My Father Finds His Smile Again
Right around the time I started middle school, my father began having financial problems and the family situation suddenly became difficult. The calm atmosphere of the household immediately changed. Luckily, our money problems weren’t so bad that we had to live on the streets, but we did had to move to a smaller house. My father’s new job entailed travel and he was rarely home as a result. I didn’t like my father’s curt style before, but now I hated my dad for making my family’s life more difficult.
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Santa Clara Meditation Grateful Mindset – I Let Go of Prejudice and Standards
I vowed not to live like my parents and strove to live happily in my marriage. That’s how my marriage began, but I soon found out there was no such thing. Instead, there were endless fights with my husband and I turned to meditation because I was unable to figure out a way to get along. Through meditation, for the first time, I was able to reflect on myself instead of blaming my parents and my husband. This is my story about meditation, how I let go of myself who lived with resentment more than gratitude, and how I found happiness through the practice of meditation.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Actualization – Life And Death, Understanding And Enlightening To The World
I’d always had questions like, “How can humans see the world and think creatively?” When I see the people around me, they seem to live happily without these kinds of heavy thoughts. I felt all alone, trapped in my thoughts – and I could not escape!
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Santa Clara Meditation Joy – A Selfish “Witch” Becomes An Angel Without Wings
I was pregnant after only 3 months of marriage. When my child was born, my husband and I just weren’t prepared. It was very hard on my body and mind. The baby didn’t sleep well during the day or at night and constantly cried. As my life became focused on raising our child, the burden of parenting only grew in my mind. I wanted to be free, but I always had to take care of my child. Before, my husband called me “the witch” because I was irritable and nagging all the time. But I changed so much that my husband now says, “You are an angel, where are your wings?”
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – I Reconciled With My Children And Now Have A Peaceful Family
Youngsung Kang, a father who was stressed out because his son neglected studying to play computer games. He has lived with the belief that life is only worthwhile if you live working diligently. He couldn’t tolerate that his family was lazy. His son and daughter were cold to him because he forced them to live life like he had. Even his wife, when she looked at the situation, would say that there was never a comfortable day. It was meditation that ultimately softened this father who was so strong and hard headed. Eventually, father and son reconciled. Finally, they’d become a peaceful family.
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Santa Clara Meditation Happiness – I Don’t Want To Live This Way Anymore. I’m So Sorry
I used to run a pump dealership. At the time, I often argued with my staff and I started drinking to relieve my stress. At one point, I lost my self-control. Once I started drinking, I kept on drinking. I would go home intoxicated and wake up my wife and children. I was looking for some kind of emotional release and I wanted to talk to my family about my problems, but they were only irritated with me. They started to shut me out…
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Santa Clara Meditation Invest in Yourself – Two Brothers Who Have Let Go Of Their Childhood Worries
I had no real plan for what I wanted to major in when I attended college. I just applied to a university that I knew would accept me with my grade point average. When I was younger, I had my dreams. But as I grew older and faced reality, it seemed like I couldn’t do anything. I cut classes regularly and when I went on vacation, I partied and drank a lot.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – Why Does My Child Have ‘Hyperactivity Disorder’?
I often quarreled with my husband. That stress was passed on to our children as a result. Our oldest child had serious emotional issues as a result. He was always distracted and even became violent towards his younger brother. When he started elementary school, he couldn’t make friends. He would say, “I’m okay, even though I can’t make friends. I’ll be okay if they don’t like me.” He was constantly biting his fingernails and he bit them down to nothing. When we took him to the doctor, he told us he had some “vocal tics.”
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Santa Clara Meditation Grateful Mindset – My Husband Changed When I Let Go Of Nagging
It seemed like everything my husband was doing, I didn’t like. I was nagging him constantly. And every time I started nagging him, he would look at me with anger or annoyance in his eyes. My husband knew what he had done wrong, but he was not willing to fix it. More and more, I nagged him, and as a result he began returning home later and later and there was more animosity between us.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – Angry Mom Becomes Happy Mom And It’s Contagious
My mother and I used to play a game of “hide-and-seek” from the time I was in middle school until my freshman year in high school. Regardless of whether or not I wanted to study, my mother had enrolled me in English and math tutoring. I quickly rebelled, and I would never stay in my tutoring program for more than a month. My mom expected and pressured me to do what she had not achieved in her life. She was especially strict and scary when it came to my studies…
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – The Stress Of Raising My Children Has Completely Vanished
I am a mother of an eight-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, and I have been married for 8 years. Every day is noisy because of my children’s trivial fighting. Whenever they fight over who gets to play with a toy, my husband always sides with my crying daughter. The oldest child then feels sad and cries. Looking at it hurts my heart. Whenever I see my children behaving like I did as a child, I feel anxious that my children could be hurt like I was…
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Santa Clara Meditation Letting Go – Letting Go Of My Hostility Towards Men
“For me, men were always competition. Since my school days, I had to beat them. At work, I didn’t listen to my male colleague’s suggestions. I believed that men were useless. Then, on TV, I saw the actress Soo-na Lee say that her hatred for her husband had disappeared and her mind had become comfortable after meditating.”
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – My Dad’s Gray Hair Helped Me To Understand Him
I grew up being afraid of my father, but I obeyed and honored him since I was a child. My dad was like a friend, but he was always distant. He didn’t praise me often. He was more of a nag and was quite awkward when trying to express his feelings. “Don’t play on your computer.” “Don’t do this.” “Don’t do that.” “Don’t do anything…” It seems like all I ever heard from my father were negative things.
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Santa Clara Meditation Insecurities – Was I Really That Complex? It Was All Just A Dream
I was a complex person. I may not have looked shy, but if I had to speak in front of people, I always became nervous. When I was a child, my mother would ask me to go to the store to buy something for her and many times I would come back home empty-handed. This was because I was too shy to even ask the store clerk to get me what she’d asked me to pick up. Why was it so hard for me to ask the clerk to ‘please give me this,’ or ‘give me that?’ There were a lot of times that I bought something that she didn’t even need because I was too shy to keep asking the clerk until I got the correct item.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – Happiness I Knew Only In Theory, Becomes Realized
There were some words printed on the beautiful cover of a meditation pamphlet: “If you empty your mind, it becomes the universe and the truth.” I could really be like that… If I could really empty my mind like that, how great it would be. I read it over and over again. My husband is an artist. I met my husband in a painting club, but I thought living would be difficult if we were both painters. I gave up painting because my husband is a more talented painter than I am, and after we got married, I worked. Since then I have had many jobs.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – Meditation Is Enjoyable When Letting Go Of My Obsession
When I was in school, all I wanted to do was study hard. In my experiences with school, when I got good grades, I received my parents’ love and my friends’ interest and my inferiority was fulfilled. I became so bent on maintaining all of this attention, I became obsessed. During exams, I stacked textbooks high on one side of my desk and studied all day in the library. The only problem was that my grades didn’t reflect the amount of effort I was investing.
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Santa Clara Meditation Find Gratitude Within – How to Communicate Effectively with People (Heart to Heart Talk)
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Santa Clara Meditation Find Gratitude Within – How to Get Along with People – Relationship Advice
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Santa Clara Meditation Find Gratitude Within – How to Make People Like You
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Santa Clara Meditation Enlightenment – How to Live a Good Life
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Santa Clara Meditation Discover The Best Life – How to Be Attractive to Everyone
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Santa Clara Meditation The Answer Is Within – What is true compassion?
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Santa Clara Meditation The Answer Is Within – How to Deal with Loneliness
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Santa Clara Meditation The Answer Is Within – How to Persuade People
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Now, My Family Can Really Be Called ‘Family’
I have a husband who earns good money and two good looking sons. On the surface, our household was a happy picture, but on the inside my family rotted away. As a primary school teacher, I was married when I was 26. I wanted to make a perfect and happy home, but nothing went my way.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Divorce Crisis: When I Looked Back At My Life, I Saw The Answer
At first, I felt sick. I thought I was just tired from all of the stress and anxiety I felt at work. I had employees that wanted to quit working for me and I held my tongue when I talked with them to keep them from leaving. I would suppress my feelings all day at work and then go home and become angry with my family. My wife and family were afraid to even speak to me. If we did have a conversation, it always ended in a fight. If we went on a vacation, the trip would start with a smile, and end with the both of us needing to get away from each other. As time went on, I became more and more distant from my family and my wife stopped trying to communicate with me. I began to consider getting a divorce.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – “What Kind Of Mind Did You Throw Away Today?” A Couple Empties Their Minds Together
In the 9th year of my marriage, a serious problem appeared in my home. Before we were married, my now-wife had been sick, but now her illness became a bigger problem for the entire family. It seemed like she was just always sick and it was becoming harder to deal with on a daily basis. I tried my best to show empathy and be understanding, but I soon began to dread coming home. As my wife’s illness got worse, so did our fights.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – “Sorry Son, At The Time I Thought It Was Right.”
Three generations of my family live together. My wife and I live in a household with my son and his wife, and their two children, my grandchildren. They have a third child on the way.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – After 50 Years, I Learned To Say, “I Love You, Mom.”
My mother is a beautiful woman, always kind and smiling. When I was 7 years old, she underwent surgery for tuberculosis. She had twice suffered from near-fatal surgical errors and still found the strength to raise my brother and me as a single parent. Her body never really recovered fully. She became increasingly hysterical due to the pressure of her life and as a consequence, my brother and I lived with constant anxiety. You see, my mother wouldn’t accept even a small mistake from either one of us.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – A World Worth Living In; Now I Live A True Life
I was the youngest child in a family of 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Somehow, I always found myself alone. My father died when I was seven. My mother doted on all of us, making sure we were cared for in every way. She worked every night to provide for us, all the while swallowing her tears over my deceased father. I watched closely and constantly as she suffered and because of this, my childhood was filled with tears and sadness. Even though I had many siblings and my mother, I felt like there was nobody in my family with whom I could truly share my feelings.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – If I Had Not Practiced This Meditation
Kang Kim is married, raises children, runs a business and takes care of her mother- and father-in-law. Even though it is difficult, she believed that she could sacrifice her needs, endure and live comfortably. Eventually, her entire family began practicing this meditation and became a happy family that is considerate of one another without any emotional stress. Later, while watching her husband undergo multiple heart surgeries, she remarked that she would not have been able to overcome the situation without this meditation.
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Santa Clara Meditation Personal Growth – The Shy, Greedy Girl Known As “Miss Carrot”
As a child, I was a greedy girl who cried a lot and was very stubborn. I wanted to have everything. I was also a very shy girl so, during the holidays, when I saw all of my relatives, it was an anxious time for me. In school, my voice would tremble and my face would blush if I had to make a presentation in front of the class. My classmates teased me and called me Miss Carrot (for some reason). If any of my peers could stand up in front of the class and speak with confidence, it made me envious.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – At Thirty, The Party Is Over
“At thirty, the party is over…” writes poet, Choi Young-Mi. It isn’t that way for everyone, but when I turned thirty years of age, I found myself sympathizing with this poetic line as I began to struggle in life. I lost some money to somebody that I had trusted. It may not have been much money to others, but to me it was significant. Also, my father’s health had been a problem for several years and was now becoming worse.
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Santa Clara Meditation Personal Growth – Two Men Talk About Their Army Service And Mind Training
Military obligation is one of the biggest life challenges for men living in Korea. All men are required to serve in the army when they come of age. Even among the most vigorous youth, the two years of close group life, taking orders and enduring obedience are huge burdens for soldiers. The trauma of military life continues for a while after discharge. Some say they have reintegrated into society, while others say an aftereffect remains. Can’t we go without pressure, live naturally, and take advantage of this precious time in life? The following is the story of two men who turned their army life into an opportunity to study their own minds.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – I became free from jealousy and competitive mind through this meditation
I’ve always been jealous and competitive since childhood. Born as the eldest son in my family, my grandfather always taught me that I should always live a successful life. My mother also had a different expectation from me than my brothers. My brothers never had any tutors, but for me, my parents always gave me the opportunity of having a tutor.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – I Realized That “I” Was The One Giving Myself A Hard Time
I first came to learn about meditation through my dad’s introduction. I had become tired of the same old thing everyday day after day. There were ongoing troubles with my family, and no matter where I went, it seemed that as long as I was there, the atmosphere would become dismal and I was unable to interact with others. As I tried to find the reason or the cause within my family, I ended up blaming others for everything.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes- Now I Laugh Easily And No Longer Think Useless Thoughts
My senior year of high school, in November, I wanted to change my negative mind. So I read a lot of books, but only during that period of time and I did not change.
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Santa Clara Meditation Depression – Now My Depression And Panic Disorder Medication Has Been Reduced
The two kids who once did not like to go to school love to go to school in the morning. In order to wake up my two children, I once had to spend one hour going from one room to the other feeding them and dressing them.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – What Are The Symptoms Of Puberty? We Don’t Know!
Downey and Na-won have become veterans of dealing with the anger and annoyance that comes with puberty.
When we were in elementary school, we were so angry that our anger came out against the stone which was still
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – My Tic Disorder Disappeared
Middle school was the worst time in my life. Starting the winter of 8th grade, I had to really start studying and I was at my most sensitive so I argued with my friends about small things, getting into big fights with them at least one or two times per year. All day long I would remember my classmates passing me by, their eyes looking at me, and the way they spoke to me. I became more and more timid.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – How An Empty-minded Man Is In A Relationship
I was a sophomore in college. After freshman orientation, I gradually developed feelings for a younger student at the college. Each of the girl’s actions was similar to that of my ideal woman. The girl also began to like me and we fell in love. We became famous in school as a lovely couple. Everywhere we went, we were always together. But after a while, the anguish began. It was because I joined the army.
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Santa Clara Meditation Happiness – Interpersonal Relationship Changed After Meditation Training for Teachers
I am a teacher who teaches Korean in middle school. They say these days, children don’t listen. Then, how was I when I was in school? I was a model student. The teachers thought I was very cute. But when I saw the scene inside my heart while meditating, I wondered if there was a student who was more selfish than me. I was a student who pretended to listen to the teacher, but I ignored the teachers hiding different kinds of inside of my mind.
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Santa Clara Meditation Peace of Mind – Returning Home
My name is Silvana and I started this meditation about a year and half ago. As I saw drastic changes in my father – even before I knew what this meditation was, I felt it was something I was always looking for.
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Santa Clara Meditation The Meaning of Life – Now I Know How to be Happy
Like any other kids, I always felt depressed about problems; especially in dealing with my parents. I left school to devote myself to music; but I still felt emptiness and I wondered, ‘For what do we come into this world? Why do we work if we are going to die someday?’ Having these questions, my curiosity was increased and I felt deeper sorrow at meaningless of life. I started to have a slight hatred towards my parents without any reason.
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Santa Clara Meditation Depression – Meaning of the Mind
I became interested in this meditation as I saw the changes of my mom.
I was surprised that she did not have the same patterns of behavior and I was always curious about what she was doing.
Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Walking Towards Completion
I had a precarious childhood. My parents had to support a family of six children so they experienced economic hardship, which was overcome with the family unity.
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Santa Clara Meditation Grateful Mindset – A Job That Was Just Stress Turns A Place Of Gratefulness
Company life was really hell for me. I always felt heavy and fear was always ahead of me in my work. I was introduced to mind meditation by a friend of my wife when I felt that I could not do it anymore after eight years of work. When she said that a week would make me feel at ease, I finally decided to participate in a meditation retreat there to find an answer . By emptying my mind, I could find out why I was so tired at work.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – Starting To Communicate Again With My Child Who Was Always On His Mobile Phone
I am a working mother of two children. When my children were young, my mother looked after them, so I was able to focus my energy on maintaining a solid work and social life.
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Santa Clara Meditation Peace of Mind – I Love This Sense of Freedom From Unnecessary Burdens
Before I started this meditation, I was filled with so many fears, doubts, worries, anxiety, cynicism and insecurities. My mind was constantly busy, and that was so exhausting!
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – The Clogged Mind Is Completely Unblocked And The World Becomes Bright
It was about five years ago when I started this meditation. At that time I felt as though I had reached my limits for everything.
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Santa Clara Meditation Happiness- Depression, Frustration, Resentment, Anger, All Disappeared
The first time I met this meditation was in the summer of 2012. It was around this time when my husband and I were fighting so severely that I decided to file for divorce.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships- I Owe Everything to This Meditation and Am Glad I Met It When I Did
Mention the word meditation and the first thing that always came to my mind was Yoga. Coming from a country where this meditation is not widely practiced or even rarely talked about, my view was as far as I had heard it mentioned or just what I imagined it to be.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Complete Settlement Of Disputes Between Sisters
Once upon a time, there was not a sad sister, but an angry sister who never called her sister, ‘sister’. This younger sister would just call her older sister ‘Hey’ and she never hesitated to use harsh language when speaking with her sister.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – The Scary Story Of A Female Teacher’s Adaptation To School Life
There is a female teacher who was so scared of the students. With her small physique, she had difficulty dealing with today’s rough high school students. So, she scolded her students with a stiff face.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – The Dilemma Between Sister-in-laws Solved Through Meditation
“I once wanted to kill my sister-in-law!” Wow, I just received a scary lead like this. I knew relationships between sister-in-laws can be strained, but it was really disconcerting as I, reporter Choi, don’t have a sister-in-law.
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Santa Clara Meditation Invest in Yourself – Throwing Away The ‘Good Girl’ Complex
I was known by my friends as a ‘good girl’. My friends have asked me for anything and everything. One by one, both homework and group assignments were taken up by me. I was at my wit’s end when I was asked if I could lend them my precious clothes or books.
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Santa Clara Meditation Depression – Severe Drinking Habits And A Story Of Overcoming Depression
The girl who used to drink alcohol and use some violence: she is tall, has long straight hair, a cool smile, even has a pretty appearance, and volunteered as an English translator.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Interview With A Woman Who Escaped A Divorce Crisis Through Meditation
I, reporter Kim, met a housewife who is the mother of 3 boys and girls. After twenty-one years of marriage, she was even on the brink of divorce because of her husband who often lost his temper.
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Santa Clara Meditation Happiness – A Career Woman Talks About Her Happiness With Her Work Life
This is reporter Kim. This time, I met with a career woman who is on a roll at work. While speaking with her, I envied her for a moment, but soon regained my composure and asked her some keen questions.
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Santa Clara Meditation The Meaning of Life – The Best License I Received In My Life That Transformed My Work Life
The impact of the IMF crisis in the late 1990’s was huge. Thirty percent of our company’s total employees were laid off and many of our colleagues who worked at the branches were forced to leave en masse.
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Santa Clara Meditation Health – My Sinus Congestion Cleared Up And My Chronic Sinusitis Disappeared
I always had congestion in my sinuses and could never breathe properly through my nose due to chronic sinusitis. It started when I was 15 years old, and at some point in my life I stopped being able to breathe well through my nose.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – Our Vice President Who Let Go Of Title And Power
During the Asian Financial Crisis when the IMF bailed out Korea, our company went into receivership and then merged with another company. In 2004, as everything was still unsettled and changing chaotically, a new vice president was assigned to our company.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – I Finally Realized How To Love Others
After we had lost our father early on, my mother raised us 4 siblings, working as a housemaid or hard laborer. My mother would always say, ‘It’s exhausting’, and ‘I am beat.’
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – You Who Always Listened To Me Have Changed My Life
I have a friend who lives in my neighborhood and she is same age as me. I met her by coincidence and we had a great conversation and thus became very close friends.
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Santa Clara Meditation Invest in Yourself – What? He Wasn’t Like This before. The Grumpy Guy Changed
My friend Ji-hoon from 10th grade was always awkward and clumsy no matter what he did. But then only during every test time he would, “transform!” He concentrated tremendously and that is what made him number 1 or 2 in class and would win him all the rewards from, national math competitions and science competitions.
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Santa Clara Meditation Peace of Mind – Since Test Taking Anxiety Disappeared, I Can Enjoy Studying
During middle school, the most difficult thing for me was dealing with my anxiety. Test taking anxiety was so severe, yet I could not find the reason. It wasn’t because I didn’t like to study or that my grades were bad…
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – Having The Wisdom To Resolve Conflict Through Meditation
There was a fellow female employee whom I hated for more than a decade. I tried to control my mind somehow, but it didn’t work. I was only able to apologize to the employee and say, “I’m so sorry to think about how much I hurt you,” after realizing that it really was all ‘my fault.’
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – Through this meditation, I was able to look back on my life.
Before meditation, I always wanted to be alone. It was very uncomfortable to share time and space with others, even with my family or friends. I pretended that I liked being with them, but actually in my mind, I wanted to go home and be by myself.
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As a result of my father’s failed attempt at running a business when I was young, our family was lacking somewhat financially, but due to the natural diligence of my mother, our life was not too difficult.
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Santa Clara Meditation Positive Life Changes – The Secret to A Successful Employment Interview? It Hinges On Your Mind
I had my last finals before my graduation and was preparing for job interviews. During my job search to see what would be a good fit for me, I came across a foreign consulting company and submitted my resume.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – I Used To Be A Sensitive And Hypocritical Boy
When I was in elementary school, I was smart. Because of that I have gotten many compliments from teachers and friends. But, after I became a 3rd grader, I saw myself becoming more arrogant, and never appreciated my teachers and friends.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – I Wonder If I Was Really Bullied?
Since I was a child, I have generally taken the safe route. The same was true for friendship. I listened to my friends’ opinions rather than insisting on my opinions to avoid conflicts as much as possible.
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Santa Clara Meditation Self Reflection – I Broke Free From My Framework Of Being Nice
I had always been jealous of confident women who were able to express themselves. I had been the very typical ‘kind’ and ‘nice’ woman due to the way my parents raised me. My dad continuously used to teach me that I always had to be nice to people and I had to pretend to be fine even though the situation was not fine.
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Santa Clara Meditation Health – My Eczema Has Now Completely Disappeared
“Did you have eczema?” “Yes, and it was severe.” People may not know the fact that I used to have eczema until I tell them. Eczema was my main issue during my teenage life. My eczema started when I was in 5th grade.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – As My Mind Changed, My Life And My Family Also Changed
I was always very negative and got irritated easily. I was depressed for no reason and also rebellious. I felt a lot of regrets about my life. Even at a young age, I was curious about the purpose of life, but I lived thinking that to be able to know the answer was beyond me.
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Santa Clara Meditation Repentance – Abandoning ‘Me’ Who Hurt My Family
As I embarked on my 40s, where others claimed I had reached success, I on the other hand, felt no joy in neither body nor mind. As a CPA, I earned a comfortable living, and perhaps it’s because I had, more or less, tried doing everything, but there wasn’t anything new that I really wanted to do.
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Santa Clara Meditation Personal Growth – Say Goodbye to Laziness for Good!
My nickname was ‘room boy’ when I was young. As soon as I got home from school, I always jumped straight into bed. When my mom yelled out for dinner, it took more than 10 minutes for me to get up to go to the dining room.
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Santa Clara Meditation Stress – So Grateful to This Meditation As It Is Showing Me the Path to the True World
I used to dread walking to and from work. I was practically at work in my mind already and began getting stressed out about the day before I even started working. When leaving I would be thinking about what I needed to get done next or play back the day in my mind and judge whether it was a good or not.
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Santa Clara Meditation Happiness – I’m Grateful. I’m Truly Grateful, Everyday
I first began this meditation on September 18, 2011 at this meditation center. I’ll never forget it because it was a very difficult time in my life. I was going through a lot of things. I was going through a separation with my husband, my oldest daughter left for college, and I was not talking to my family.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – I No Longer Felt Like an Outsider
Before I started this meditation, I was very conscious of my surroundings and was concerned with what people thought about me. I wanted to be liked and was afraid to say no to people. Friends knew me as the ‘nice and cheerful’ girl.
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Santa Clara Meditation Relationships – This Is Letting Go
I didn’t know what I was looking for or why I sought, but I had been seeking for over 15 years. I read numerous spiritual books and attended many meditation retreats and workshops; but after I practiced this meditation, all my seeking stopped.
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