As a meditation teacher who specializes in helping people when their practice goes wrong, many people come to me seeking answers as to why meditation makes them feel worse. It’s so frustrating. You start meditating because you want to feel better… and it ends up making your feel worse?!.. You might even wonder what’s wrong… Continue reading If Meditation Makes You Feel Worse, Do THIS

If you’re looking for a more uplifting, emotionally restorative form of meditation, heart-centered meditation practices are just the ticket. These exercises, which range from quick mindfulness exercises to full meditations, cultivate warm emotions like kindness, love, and compassion. And not only do these emotions feel good, significant research suggests they could be powerful tools for… Continue reading Heart-Centered Meditation: Reconnect With Your Feelings

As a private meditation teacher many people come to me saying that meditation isn’t working for them. But what I’ve come to learn is this. The truth is that the type of meditation you’re using isn’t working for you for the specific goal that you have in mind. Those three elements are everything: Type of… Continue reading When Meditation Doesn’t Work For You Do This

Through my extensive experience as a meditation teacher, I’ve come to learn that meditation is a golden gateway to a spiritual life. Perhaps you came to meditation recently, during the wave of extreme popularity that mindfulness is currently enjoying. And if so, you may very well wonder what other spiritual practices can help you, or… Continue reading Meditation And Spiritual Life – My Guide

I’ve been meditating for 25 years. I came to meditation as an actor battling stage anxiety, searching for something that actually worked. Meditation gave me that calm, but it wasn’t until I began exploring Buddhist philosophy that my practice deepened and my life shifted in ways I hadn’t expected. If you meditate—even if you’re not… Continue reading Lessons On Buddhist Philosophy For Meditators

I’ve meditated through the most painful moments. The moments that tear through your plans like a storm through glass. The kind that make you sit on the edge of your bed, numb. The kind that pull someone you love out of your life before you’re ready. When my father died young it rocked me to… Continue reading How I Use Meditation To Accept Change [Anicca]

Self-doubt in meditation is sneaky. It doesn’t scream. It whispers. It shows up the moment you close your eyes and try to find peace. And if you don’t know how to handle it, it’ll make you think you were never meant to meditate at all. I know because I’ve been there. I used to be… Continue reading A Real Guide to Self-Doubt in Meditation

I used to wonder if something was wrong with me—why I couldn’t meditate, no matter how much I wanted to. I’d sit, breathe, try to focus… and within seconds, I was gone. Caught in a craving. Fighting a thought. Doubting if I, a metalhead, even belonged on the cushion doing a practice made originally for… Continue reading Why You Can’t Meditate: The 5 Hindrances

Let this 15-minute guided meditation with Zen Pauly lead you into a space of compassion, softness, and deep emotional healing. Through the gentle practice of Loving Kindness (Metta), you’ll be guided to send warmth first to yourself, then outward to others—helping soothe pain, ease anxiety, and rebuild emotional resilience. Whether you’re carrying grief, anger, or… Continue reading Loving Kindness for Emotional Healing [15 Minutes Guided Meditation]

The jhānas are deep states of meditative absorption—intensely focused, calm, and blissful layers of concentration that arise when the mind becomes unified and undistracted. Imagine pouring oil into a bowl without spilling a drop. That smooth, unbroken stream? That’s the mind in jhāna: steady, continuous, absorbed. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “How do I… Continue reading Jhana Meditation – A Practical Beginner’s Guide