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.
Podcast with Dr. Are Holen: Inner Strength – The Free Mental Attitude in Acem Meditation
In this recording, Dr. Are Holen explains how practitioners of Acem Meditation may cultivate a free mental attitude, and what kind of change that might bring about. Dr. Holen is a professor emeritus [...]
What happens in the longer term when we meditate?
Many who learn Acem Meditation are satisfied with the short-term effects that the method provides. They feel that Acem Meditation enables them to relax, get rid of some of the day's stress, and [...]
To be just myself
Johan Øye shares his experience with Acem Meditation in his daily life and at a deepening retreat at Acem’s Retreat Center Halvorsbøle. He is a Norwegian teacher who has practiced meditation for many [...]
Q&A: Meditation and the Default Mode Network of the brain
The Meditation Blog has received several questions regarding the relationship between the so-called Default Mode Network of the brain and meditation. The discovery of the brain’s Default Mode Network by Raichle et al. [...]
Report from the world’s best place to meditate
Silence has an outer and an inner dimension. Acem's retreat center at Lundsholm, Sweden provides both. What is it like to meditate there? Sitting in bed in my room in Sjögården at Lundsholm, [...]
Six tips on how to establish meditation routines
If you are able to establish regular meditation habits, you will achieve greater benefits from your meditation practice. You decide for yourself when and how much you shall meditate. Acem recommends 2x30 minutes [...]