Meditation Spaces Art Gallery & Studio provides a feel-good experience that offers important items to support your meditation, practice, prayer and quiet contemplation. Items such as incense, high quality cushions, zafu and zabuton. We also have a great selection of fine art such as original oil paintings, glass art, water features, candles and incense holders,…
Author: InspiredBlogs
These blogs are intended to inspire others to find a deeper way of living their lives, to help others, and to improve our own minds and spaces. The Buddha taught that we can find happiness by bringing happiness to others. Please let go and quietly enjoy.
Candles in Your Meditation Space
Candles are a traditional symbol in most meditation spaces, and many spiritual practices and beliefs. This light is often seen as illumination for those seeking spiritual comfort. Candles also bring warmth to a meditation space with subtle light and a peaceful aroma. In Christianity the tradition of using candles on the altar dates back centuries…
Creating a Meditation Space
By now you probably have an understanding that this adventure of creating your own meditation space can change your life, so why treat the selection of where to place that space as anything less important? But let’s ask the next question that might arise. Why is it important for meditation spaces to be dedicated just…
Technology and a Quiet Mind
In todays world our minds are being constantly entertained by phones, tablets, tv’s and computers – so much so that we almost never have a moment to quiet or calm our thinking. In truth, our minds almost never rest until we fall exhausted into bed. Many believe this kind of lifestyle isn’t good for a lot…
Just for Meditation?
How many of us wish we could do meditation but haven’t. How many of us have taken a meditation class, but never used what we learned? Or purchased a book on how to meditate, filled with dreams and ideas of how we’d sit on that cushion and change our life. And yet…we just never seem…
Meditation Music
Music is one of those greats gifts in the universe that can set off different thought processes and reactions. Why not use it to set the mood or support meditation? Be careful about choosing music from sources you do not know or are not familiar with on the web. It’s better if it’s from a…
Now that You Have the Meditation Space…?
So you now have a new meditation space set up in your home or office, and are really ready to move forward to commit to that daily sit down when you actually work on that busy mind that keeps you stressed and overworked every day. If you’re uncertain on how to take those next steps,…
7 Great Meditation Space Links
Here are 7 great websites that have information about creating a meditation space in your home. The trend and belief that this may be the answer to why so many want to meditate, but so few stick with their meditation. Our website is a great resource, and these links will take you to articles that…
Meditation Apps
Some of us have full days, and stressful lifestyles so we can’t always remember to meditate. Here is a solution: smart phone and tablet apps for meditation. Most of these applications have alerts or reminders, and are great choices to use in your meditation space in your home paired with bluetooth speakers. Some have guided…
Way of Tea Meditation
The Japanese tea ceremony began to evolve its own principles (sabi and wabi) that became a large part of the Japanese culture. After waning for some years early on, Zen Buddhism was a primary influence in the development of the Japanese tea ceremony and ultimately a connection to meditation spaces. The first documented evidence of what’s called…
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