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  • Live Whole Health #85: Stillness in busy times with Yin meditation

    Live Whole Health #85: Stillness in busy times with Yin meditation

    When our days feel overly busy or stressful it can be nice to slow down and find moments of stillness. There are many ways to do that throughout the day, even if just for a minute or two. Here are a few ideas.

  • Live Whole Health #59: Finding Stillness through Yin Meditation

    Live Whole Health #59: Finding Stillness through Yin Meditation

    There are many different styles of meditation – some are yang and some are yin. Yin meditation encourages being open to what might unfold during the experience. A yin meditation helps us to be curious, open, and gentle towards our inner experience and can support self-compassion.

  • Live Whole Health #228: Walking meditation, mindfulness for busy lives

    Live Whole Health #228: Walking meditation, mindfulness for busy lives

    No time for mindfulness? Try this simple walking meditation that can fit right into your busy day! Learn more in this week's #LiveWholeHealth video.

  • Live Whole Health #183: Checking in with yourself through Body Scan Meditation

    Live Whole Health #183: Checking in with yourself through Body Scan Meditation

    When was the last time you truly checked in with yourself? ?‍♀️ In our fast-paced lives, it's easy to lose touch with our own body and emotions. Check out this #LiveWholeHealth episode for a guided body scan practice.

  • Meditation may help Veterans with PTSD

    Meditation may help Veterans with PTSD

    Meditation may be able to help Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Learn about a meditative practice available through VA called the Mantram Repetition Program. Also compassion meditation.

  • Live Whole Health: Self-care episode #15 – Loving Kindness Meditation

    Live Whole Health: Self-care episode #15 – Loving Kindness Meditation

    May is National Meditation Month. There are many different types of meditation, including the loving kindness meditation.

  • VA San Diego is studying PTSD and moral wounds

    VA San Diego is studying PTSD and moral wounds

    Combat Veterans can experience long lasting emotional and spiritual pain from participating in, witnessing, or failing to prevent traumatic events that violate their core values or expectations of themselves or others. Some have described such experiences as “a deep soul wound that pierces a person’s identity, sense of morality and relationship to society” leaving Veterans to question who they are and how they can relate to others.

  • #BorneTheBattle 96: Alphi Quitevis – Marine Veteran; Meditation Practice

    #BorneTheBattle 96: Alphi Quitevis – Marine Veteran; Meditation Practice

    Alphi Quitevis talks to us about his time in the Marine Corps, becoming too busy, becoming less busy, and finding meditation.

  • Army Veteran’s advice for dealing with multiple sclerosis – Healing the brain and body with mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality

    Army Veteran’s advice for dealing with multiple sclerosis – Healing the brain and body with mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality

    Crystal Muscatello joined the Army National Guard in 2006. She was deployed to Iraq in 2009 and was honorably discharged in 2015. This is her story on how she is dealing with multiple sclerosis.

  • Mindfulness meditation: A promising tool to help reduce chronic pain and opioid use

    Mindfulness meditation: A promising tool to help reduce chronic pain and opioid use

    The growth and interest in mindfulness is due in large part to an impressive body of evidence that suggests mindfulness meditation practices can mitigate a number of physical and mental health issues, ranging from dealing with cancer and depression, to sleep problems and chronic pain.

  • My Meditation

    My Meditation

    In observance of PTSD Awareness Month: June 2014, VA’s National [...]

  • Live Whole Health #282: Finding stillness

    Live Whole Health #282: Finding stillness

    Step away from your busy life and find the stillness that resides deep inside with Yin Meditation.

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