Just as important as the words you use are your tonality, timing, and even your attitude, mood, and sense of certainty. The verbal part of our communication is only part of the picture, but we tend to give it most of our attention.
By Christina Schäfers
I’ve always been an ambitious player. When I was a child, my parents did their utmost to prevent me and my sister from watching TV. So we were “forced” to play. And we did: We played in the woods, at home, at friends’ houses, etc. We played with puppets and Playmobil, we played […]
In Acem Meditation we can repeat the meditation sound in different ways. The sound can be clear and distinct or lighter and more fleeting, and our body and breath can become more or less involved in our repetition. A young woman had doubts about how to repeat the sound. Doubt was perhaps a reflection of […]
Most readers of this blog share two things: Meditating and being in the midst of a pandemic. Do these two phenomena have anything in common?
By Ole Gjems-Onstad
A basic principle of Acem Meditation is that one should not try to influence the spontaneous activities. This does not mean that Acem Meditation is about passivity, […]
Enjoy exciting new perspectives and reflection by joining these two Acem Webinars in October and November.
Saturday 03 October 2020 16:00 Central European Summer Time (Oslo, Berlin, Barcelona)
Can our experience with metathoughts – self-critical thoughts during meditation – help us understand the origins of our shame? Is understanding […]
International Young Retreat Sat 24 July – Sat 31 July 2021
Leaders: Elisabeth Heimdal Wærsted and Bjarke Madsen
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
International Retreat Sat 31 July – Sat 7 August 2021
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
One-week International Deepening Retreat Sat 10 July – Sat 17 July 2021
Leaders: Ole […]
In 2020, this course had to be canceled due to the corona situation. We are pleased to offer a new possibility in 2021.
This is a unique course; it doesn’t resemble any other training with a similar name. It builds on experience-based, exploratory, and deepening group processes. Twice every day, participants meet in small communication groups […]
International Deepening Retreat
2-9 January 2021
Leaders: Rolf Brandrud and Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Young Deepening Retreat
2-9 January
Leader: Christopher Grøndahl
Halvorsbøle International Retreat Centre, Norway
International Advanced Deepening Retreat (3 weeks), 2-23 January 2021
Leaders Halvor Eifring, Øyvind Ellingsen and Thor Udenæs
Lundsholm, Värmland, Sweden
“At times, I feel inadequate when I meditate. The meditation sound is never easy and effortless and is always linked to my breathing. What should I do?”
“Meditation is not only easy for me, even though I feel that it should be. It is difficult to repeat the sound the way it is supposed to be. […]
Astrid and Gry Iverslien – mother and daughter – share the interest in meditation, and both have made use of meditative processes in their creative professional activities.
A better understanding of myself
Astrid is what you would call a creative person. She has made drawings, painted, and written books. Now, at 86, her neck doesn’t permit drawing […]
