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By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:49:53 +0000

Thank you for your kind words, thomas, and you are very welcome!

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:19:30 +0000

i’ve been listening to your meditations for several months now. what started as a sporadic interest has become a daily routine for me now! thanks a lot. i’m sure you have helped a great many people. i too have been informing people about your podcasts. keep up the great work you are doing!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:53:55 +0000

You are welcome, David. Making meditation a part of your daily routine should bring a lot of benefit. Many people report relief from anxiety. Coincidentally, we’ve just finished creating a program for anxiety — “At Ease – Anxiety and Worry Relief”. It will soon be out on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and we are also working on a version for the website. I has meditations, but exercises and journaling as well.

By: David Young

David Young — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:13:48 +0000

I was pointed to your website by a friend a couple weeks ago so I am really new to meditation. I have downloaded many of your podcasts to my ipod. I am going to make this part of my daily routine for dealing with aniexty along with other things. I really enjoy the layout of the site and how easy it is to find things. I look forward to all the new things you all do. Thanks Mary.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:34:20 +0000

You are so welcome, lisa lovely! It’s really helpful to hear your take on the meditations. Someone in another comment asked about what I meant by not believing the stories of the mind. I’m going to write a post about that…

By: lisa lovely

lisa lovely — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:19:44 +0000

Hiya Mary, I wanted to write and say how much I love your meditations and I find that they are the meditative equivalent of cognitive behaviour therapy which i do espouse. Making people aware of feelings and not running any story is completely wonderful! I need reminders of that EVERY day. Those stories are so compelling eh! I think that non-story running thing is the key to SO much. Thank you a million for your work. I really appreciate it. Lisa. p.s. I particularly love the part when you say “doesn’t matter” when referring to getting into thoughts. That simplistic idea lets people off their hooks and is very reassuring. Thanks Mary

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:36:04 +0000

Hi Bruce,
I’m so glad the meditations are helpful to you.

I’ll say a few words about what I mean by “not trusting” or “resisting” our experiences, but first want to say that it’s not important to understand everything I say. If you hear something in a meditation that doesn’t make sense, just let it go. You don’t need to understand, or even hear, all the words.

That being said, what I mean by not resisting ones experiences is simply that from time to time you may notice that there is some resistance to an emotion or a thought that you are having. This is because often we’ve been conditioned to reject certain feelings or do not want to feel them for some reason. Whenever you notice yourself resisting or trying to push out an experience that naturally comes up in you, you can back off — let go of the resistance. I hope that clarifies it for you.

Wishing you well, Mary.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:42:26 +0000

Hello. Your website was recommended to my by a therapist who I am seeing for depression. Your meditations have helped me a great deal to become a calmer, kinder, more adjusted person. The meditations ease me through the more tumultuous episodes of my life and give me a measure of control over my moods and how I deal with life.
One thing does confuse me. Could you clarify what you mean when you speak of “not trusting” or resisting our experiences such as in the Letting Go or Trust meditations ?

Hope you can help.

P.S. keep up the good work. You are really helping people. I don’t think I would be in the good place I am now without your meditations.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:02:18 +0000

You are welcome, Jeanine.

I would say that if you are enjoying learning the process, you are probably doing the meditations correctly. In a sense, there’s no right way to do them, but there are sometimes some tips that can help you to achieve greater ease and effortlessness which is the goal of the meditations.

For more support, you can read the General Guidelines and Difficulty Meditating page.

We will also be offering an Online Meditation Course soon for those who want more structure and guidance.

As for stopping analyzing thoughts and emotions — you don’t have to! Thoughts will keep coming into the mind. They could be about a shopping list or they could consist of analyzing. Doesn’t matter. Just let them go. Let thoughts be a meaningless activity in the mind!

By: Jeanine

Jeanine — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:45:21 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for the guided meditation podcasts. I am pretty new to meditating and still not really sure if I am doing them correctly, but am really enjoying learning the process.

I’d love some meditations on how to stop analyzing thoughts and emotions.