About Meditate.se

How this web page came about...

By 2013, I had collected a considerable amount of information on mindfulness that I wanted to preserve in a suitable form. To include the links that I wanted to save, the choice of a web interface was easy.
From the beginning the intention was to just save the Web page locally on my computer, but when the interest grew among friends, I decided to go public.

In the search for more interesting information, I happened to see a television program that was one of the most interesting I've seen. You can find a summary of this program in the tab: "Intro stress".

After watching the TV program, a growing interest started in making a website that combined mindfulness practice with the science of what is happening in the brain when we consciously focus on something real in the present moment and why these changes are so positive for the quality of life.

The page has now also been translated into English. I constantly want to improve this web page and since I participate in courses / workshops / retreats abroad, I want to take the opportunity to get additional tip o advice during such occations.

The driving force for this site is not to be a missionary, but: "To provide a summary of the interesting observations / experiences I've had / made during my years of mental training."

Sources

Everything on this website is fairly basic and hopefully easily expressed on the subjects I write about. The summaries are drawn from a variety of literature and I have sometimes chosen not to line up all the sources I collected information from. The information can relatively easy be confirmed in basic literature of each subject.

The main purpose of this website is like I mentioned earlier, to link together (hopefully in an educational way) the exercise of mindfulness with the positive changes that it affects the brain.

About me

I tried meditation for the first time on a course in the early 90s. During that time meditation was still largely surrounded by cultural duties. Therefore my first impression of meditation was that it had a lot to do with an impossible sitting position, about clothes o hairstyle and the talent to be able to hold the breath and to stand on the head. This is the unfortunate reason why it took a number of years before I made a new attempt.

I don't have a license to teach mindfulness. I have done the 8-week program (MBSR) twice, and participated in some 10 mindfulness retreats. Most of them in silence over several days. I practice daily meditation (sitting and / or in movement) I have also participated in about 10 other types of courses in personal development with different themes. I practice yoga regularly. I started with a form of yoga that wasn't suited for me and which unfortunately gave me the impression that yoga in general was not for me, but a few years later I made another attempt and tried other forms of yoga. Now I see yoga as a very important technique in my life.

Changes in the brain takes time, but in the relatively few years I've practiced mindfulness, I see a positive trend around how my concerns regarding "little things" in life has decreased significantly. These concernes were previously classified as "code red" in my brain. As a bonus, I have received a greater self-awareness, and I don't follow the cultural burdens as much as before. Today I question my old patterns of behavior that were previously set on autopilot.

This website is designed entirely without commercial interests and it is religiously and ethnically neutral.