Why Meditation Doesn’t Work (Until You Fix This First) You don’t have a meditation problem. You have a safety problem. You sit down. You close your eyes. You try to breathe slowly and think about nothing. And within ninety seconds your leg is bouncing, your jaw is tight, your mind is sprinting through six unrelated Continue reading
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What 39 Days of Silence Taught Me About Stress
What 39 Days of Silence Taught Me About Stress | The Healing Itinerant The Healing Itinerant Get the Guide → Vipassana · Personal · Nervous System What 39 Days of SilenceTaught Me About Stress By Brian Abreu · The Healing Itinerant Three 10-day Vipassana courses. One Satipatthana course. 39 total days of noble silence — Continue reading
The Difference Between Meditation and Nervous System Regulation
The Difference Between Meditation and Nervous System Regulation | The Healing Itinerant The Healing Itinerant Get the Guide → Meditation · Nervous System · Practice The Difference Between Meditationand Nervous System Regulation By Brian Abreu · The Healing Itinerant People use these terms interchangeably. They’re not the same thing. Confusing them is part of why Continue reading
Sensation Awareness: A Guide to Rewiring Your Nervous System
What Is Sensation Awareness? In this post, I want to explore the sensations that arise in the body from thoughts, emotions, and our environment — and how learning to observe and feel these sensations is the key to releasing stress, processing trauma, and mastering self-awareness. Understanding the Mind-Body Connection To begin, we need to understand Continue reading
Don’t Go To A Vipassana Meditation Retreat!
While backpacking through India, I crossed paths with a martial artist friend at the House of Travelers Hostel in Agra. Our friendship began over a simple gesture—he offered me some boiled eggs after his workout, and I gratefully accepted. During our conversations, he mentioned attending a meditation course seven times after each fight, a practice Continue reading
How to Concentrate: Yogic Approaches to Improve Focus
Since youth, I built the habit of Day Dreaming and I loved it. It wasn’t a productive habit, though and it did not teach me how to concentrate. With my focus, you could’ve diagnosed me with ADHD. Daydreaming had its Positives, though. It allowed my brain to improve at visualization and law of attraction. The Continue reading