Meditation is about practice, not speculation or intellectual thinking. Still, reading and reflecting may enhance your understanding, increase your motivation and improve the quality of your practice.
You can read about meditation in a number of articles published on The Meditation Blog, or in a number of books published by Acem.
Tips for those who want to establish a regular meditation practice
If you are able to establish a regular meditation practice, you will get more out of Acem Meditation. You decide how much you want to meditate, but Acem's recommendation is 2 x 30 or [...]
Meditation in a culture of comparison
By Jonas Meyer There are several ways to perceive our contemporary society, but one perspective, which makes sense to me, is that we live in a culture of comparisons. In such a culture [...]
Wandering in our free mental zone
By Carl Henrik Grøndahl Not a feeling The free mental attitude is associated with action, with the way we do something, sense, think, speak, act. When we enter the driver's seat of a [...]
Q&A: Existential?
By Dag Spilde and Maria S. Gjems-Onstad Acem is a nonreligious organization, with little talk of spirituality. That is fine with me, although I myself am a religious person. Being down to earth [...]
Towards a more stable self-image
By Tor Hersoug Are there any links between low self-images and meditation? Quite a few, actually. Low self-images may emerge in the meditation as spontaneous thoughts and feelings; they may influence the way [...]
Reconciliation, growth and introspective sensitivity
The focus of this article by Are Holen is reconciliation and how Acem Meditation may contribute towards this end via introspective sensitivity. To meditate strengthens the links to those aspects of the psyche that are not shaped by history and that are anchored in an inner freedom and autonomy; the changes have implications for the individual, for fellow human beings as well as for society; they add a dimension of integrity, genuineness and responsibility to the human interactions.