6 Tips for Better Sleep - Are you getting enough sleep? If you have trouble keeping your energy up all day or get sleepy whenever you slow down, you're probably not getting the sleep you need. Learn how to determine your nightly sleep needs and recover from chronic sleep loss.

Meditation and sleep disorders - Ever had a night, or a string of nights, when you couldn't sleep be- cause of troublesome thoughts or worries? Of course, we all have.

Mindfulness for everyone - We are losing our ability to self-regulate our own nervous systems and we are becoming more dependent on a variety of external quick fixes, causing us to lose control of our daily actions, and the trajectory of our lives.

Why do you turn down the radio when you are driving? - Directing attention to listening effectively 'turns down the volume' on input to the visual parts of the brain. The evidence we have right now strongly suggests that attention is strictly limited - a zero-sum game.

Get to work on your happiness - "With happiness, people tend to think you've either got it or you haven't," says Sydney psychologist, Dr Tony Grant. "But that's only partly true."

Thinking away pain - Meditation as a cheap self administered morphine . . . New therapeutic approaches don't target body parts or nerves close to the source of the problem. They don't involve highly technical surgeries or expensive new drugs. Instead, they focus on the mind, on altering the ways in which we perceive the pain itself.

Physical Exercise for Brain Health - Your brain is no different than rest of the muscles in your body-you either use it or you lose it.

October HealtheLetter from Dr Daniel Lewis - The question I want to ask you is how do you know how to follow your heart and intuition? How do you discover your potential? One way of doing this ...and the best way that I know is to spend some time each day with yourself being silent and still.

Brain Fitness - A combination of brain exercises and healthy lifestyle changes can improve memory performance in healthy elderly adults, new research suggests.

Experienced 'Mindfulness' meditators have superior mind-body awareness - A recent study revealed that people who meditate are even more in emotional sync with their bodies than ballet and modern dancers.

Deepak Chopra and your infinite energy - Celebrated author speaks of finding infinite energy from the spirit that lives within you.

How to listen to your body - Your body and mind are meant to be a whole, and to ensure that they are, your whole existence is based on feedback loops. Body listens to mind; mind listens to body. Awareness is the link.

6 reasons for talking & listening -  When it comes to relating to each other, communication is perhaps the most overused term in our vocabulary.

Learn to say NO -  Finding yourself is not about what you add to your life, it's about what you take away.

What's wrong with being angry? - One of the first fights my wife and I ever had, some months into our marriage, was about how to wash lettuce.

Cure for Self-Consciousness - You step into the party feeling reasonably confident. True, your favourite little black dress feels somewhat tight, but it's still elegant, and the wind outside only tousled your hair a little.

Scientific reasons why smiling works - From a recent article in The Age comes this excellent article on the power of a smile to improve our life. We will facilitate a smiling meditation to experience the inner smile - read on.

Mental Chatter Exercise - Here is an exercise to help increase awareness of the nature of thoughts.

Living with Pain and Meditation - This article is from Daniel Lewis' HEALTHeLETTER

Get to work on your happiness - If you want to get fitter, you need to work at it. The same goes for becoming happier, a growing body of research shows.

How does meditation support creativity? - Here are 3 states of mind that we can cultivate through meditation. Each one fosters creativity.

Finding an insomnia cure with meditation - Meditation can certainly be used to both encourage and promote relaxation. The more relaxed you are feeling as you get ready for bed, the better your chances of falling into a deep and restful sleep cycle.

Dealing with stress - You know that too much stress isn't good for your health, but it turns out too little isn't ideal, either. Here's how to keep the pressure on—without boiling over.

Top 20 Stress Management Techniques - Theses techniques will help you get relief from stress quickly and supply you with the tools you need for long-term stress management.

Forgiveness can improve immune function - Could forgiveness lead to enough beneficial physiological change to improve immune function in people whose immune status is already compromised?.

What's in a name? - An article on naming thoughts and naming feelings by Heather Mason. "By naming one’s feelings the mind returns from its internal journey and the thoughts will cease of their own accord. Naming thoughts renders the mind clear whilst breaking up painful and confusing feelings."

How to forgive anyone and why your health depends upon it - Ready to Forgive or be Forgiven? What, exactly, does it take to move past a lifetime of hurts? Harriet Brown goes on a mission to discover the true meaning of forgiveness.

8 ways to forgive and forget - Here are 8 strategies to free you from the poison pill of resentment today!

Extract from India Times - Concentration is a tremendous force in society. Concentration should not be consciously practiced only during times of need; one should constantly keep developing the powers of the mind at all times.

6 Practices to Improve Concentration - This article will help you learn the art of concentration through practical exercises; if you are not able to concentrate on something for a reasonable period of time then this can limit your potential to both learn and remember.

Simple ways to relax -  Simple, yet astounding ways to relax when you're overwhelmed . . . you're so crazed that you have to pencil in time for a deep breath, here's how to become more relaxed—and efficient—in less than a minute.

What is meditation? - If you are interested in slowing time, in enjoying each precious moment, in appreciating all that is profound in its simplicity here are some possibilities: spend some time alone, in meditation, just sitting.

Self Acceptance - The importance of self-acceptance in the pursuit of spiritual freedom? (Paul Lowe, Deepak Chopra and Cheri Huber)

10 ways to self accept -Apply these ten ideas for self acceptance:

Beyond the conditioned mind - The way we see and experience the world is determined by how we grew up, the attitudes, opinions, beliefs and limitations we were given.

5 ways to be more present- If you are interested in slowing time, in enjoying each precious moment, in appreciating all that is profound in its simplicity here are some possibilities...

11 Empowering ways to strengthen your brain

An app a day to keep bad health away

How biofeedback can help

7 ways to reset your biological age

Top 10 New Year's Resolutions - More than a third of New Year’s resolutions are broken by end of January. 23% of people actually stick to their resolutions.

3 Steps to Making Change - Change has to come from you. You won’t be so willing to change if others are forcing you into it. When the time is right and you feel ready, the process of change will start.

Intentions aren't the same as resolutions - An intention: a course of action that one proposes to follow," or "an aim that guides action".

Mind over genes - the new biology

Breaking the stress cycle

Exercise and living in the moment

8 steps to happiness

Finding happiness - how to beat depression and anxiety

Neuroscience of Silence

Seven Basic Tips For Good Health

Cultivating Resilience: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Mind over Matter

Have We Forgotten How To Concentrate? - A lack of concentration is affecting our ability to be alone and unstimulated, and it could make us stupid.

8 Powerful Insights - Here are moment to moment options to bring oneself back to the present — Eckhart Tolle

Gaining a sense of self worth - Here are some realistic steps that will help gain clarity in one's life direction  — Dr Deepak Chopra

How To Quiet Your Mind During Meditation - According to Dr Deepak Chopra in meditation, any attempt to quiet the mind using force won't work.

Mindfulness meditation for stress relief - Mindfulness meditation is not zoning out, rather a maintaining of awareness.

How Meditation Can Calm Your Anger - According to Ed and Deb Shapiro, meditation is very important because it invites you not only to witness anger, but also to get to know and make friends with yourself.

Reasons Why Mindfulness Meditation Helps Relationships - We may know that meditation is good for us but how does it help us in relationships?

Best quotes by Eckhart Tolle - It seems almost impossible to disidentify from the mind. We are all immersed in it. How do you teach a fish to fly? Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it.

Have we forgotten how to concentrate? - We can’t work properly amid a barrage of emails, texts and tweets. Here is how to clear your mind and focus on what matters.

Transformational intentions - Here is a way of dealing with fear by reshaping our inner dialogue

Transform your fear into courage

7 Ways to heal the past

How meditation can change your relationship - Ed and Deb Shapiro are the authors of Be the Change, How Meditation Can Transform You and the World.

Self-reflective practices, such as meditation, enable you to see not only how you are responsible for your own feelings, but also how whatever you may be experiencing is a choice you are making in that moment. It is not because of what someone else might be saying or doing.

Who are you really? - Quick, finish this sentence: "I am a ________."

What popped into your mind? Did you immediately think of your job title? Did you identify yourself with a relationship term, like wife, daughter, or Elvis fan? Maybe you described your body ("I am a slim size 10), your personality ("I am an optimist"), or your favourite hobby ("I am a heavy drinker").

12 great tips for meditation

Tips and advice for meditation:

1. It is important to meditate every day and meditate in a place where you can be alone and undisturbed

2. Keep up a positive attitude.

3. Do not meditate when you are tired.

Print this list and refer to it daily (click here).

Four great tips for handling stress - A new approach to stress, from Positive Psychologist Karen Reivich Ph.D., is shedding light on how we can all deal with life's obstacles. Her tips for handling whatever comes your way.

Ego, Personality and the Witnessing Presence - — from Eckhart Tolle Meditation and becoming the 'witnessing presence' Ego is complete identification with your thinking and your emotions.

When you are unconscious, personality and ego are one thing. As you awaken, you become more aware of your patterns, which may to some extent still operate. I’m choosing to define personality as something that you can be aware of.

Inspiring quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh - "Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out."

Memory and meditation - One recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the parts of the brain's cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention and memory.

Benefits of Meditation - One of the greatest benefits of meditation is learning to go with the flow and things that used to irritate you before simply become insignificant. The benefits of meditation are endless and certainly deserve your contemplation and consideration.

Keep Taking The Meditation - The Age Good Weekend Magazine, 30 August 2003.

Paradox - Paradox a convincing group of observations on why we need to meditate

Concentration and Mindful Meditation practices - Concentration meditation builds up mind power. After practicing concentration meditation, people report they feel calmer, happier, stronger, and more focused.

Meditation nights - Meditation Nights each month at Camberwell

Pain reduction - Pain reduction by Hypnosis

A powerful and simple mindful exercise - When you are aware of your body, breath and immediate environment, you are more fully "in the moment." Your mind is in a receptive state, with fewer mental distractions that can prevent clear thinking. An exercise like this before important mental tasks will give you greater brain power, specifically more focus and concentration.

Three Concentration Meditation Techniques - The basis of all techniques is focus and attention. These exercises help train our capacity to concentrate.

We learn to focus to bring the unending stream of thoughts in our mind to a standstill and to limit the number of thoughts in our mind to only those that are relevant for the present moment.

For many, emptying our mind through focus and concentration is the most difficult but perhaps also the most important aspect of meditating.