Category: Email Archives
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Yoga and meditation are the SAME
I was shocked to hear someone say yesterday they were surprised to hear yoga and meditation are related. And yet, several years ago, as I was listening to an interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, he mentioned doing yoga. I thought: “Huh…another meditation person talking about yoga? This is weird.” Yoga was invented to help you sit for…
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I have faith in us
Faith gets a bad rap. Don't get me wrong. What most people mean when they say “faith”…that thing, I have no use for that. I think it's dangerous, in fact. But as a skill that you can deliberately practice and keep in your back pocket for when you need it, it's priceless. Faith is, after all, one…
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Scheduling meditation classes is a form of meditation
I hope you're all enjoying the new meditation class schedule. If you're unaware of it, you can find it here: https://michaelkorman.com/events/ I also know some of you probably aren't interested in meditation classes, and you might be getting annoyed that I keep emailing you about them. Let me explain, to those who aren't getting annoyed, what I'm…
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5 annoying thoughts that come up in meditation
Meditation will subject you to a practically unlimited stream of thoughts, many of which will be disturbing. Here are five that you might have noticed: 1. “Am I doing this right?” What instructions are you trying to follow? Are you clear on what they are? No? Then, you deserve to wonder if you're doing it right. Yes,…
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Fine, I’ll play along for now
First, there's a meditation class today. And tomorrow. And Friday. This will be the schedule for the immediate future. You can sign up here: https://michaelkorman.com/events/ Don't think I'm trying to sell you anything. I'm not. Everything I offer SUCKS (in my opinion). But, it won't get better until I know you have the same opinion…
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Got new shoes yesterday. Weird.
Shoes are funny. There are so many choices for shoes. Why do we need all these shoes? I just wanted something waterproof. So I thought. It turns out that “waterproof” means completely impervious to water to the point where you could walk through a river with them. Yeah, that's not what I needed. I just wanted shoes that…