“As a scientist, I need to combine objectivity and subjectivity to generate new ideas.”
Elsa Roussel, 29, an immunologist-in-training based in Zurich, joined an Acem Meditation course in 2017 and has since been exploring various levels of self-awareness in her personal relationships and interactions.
More daring
“I have learned how to set boundaries, be more balanced between what I feel and how to […]
How to deal with restlessness in meditation
By Jonas Meyer
Everyone who meditates will from time to time encounter restlessness in meditation. Here are nine suggestions on how to handle it. Restlessness in meditation is a sign that there is something in you that you are not quite managing to embrace. Restlessness is therefore an important and interesting phenomenon in meditation. It represents […]
IT entrepreneur with success: – Without meditation, I would not be able to cope with the pressure
Father of three and business manager Håvard Bell built a software company from scratch. Today, it has 25 employees and its app is used worldwide.
Håvard talks about a steep learning curve and many challenges: “We were five technology-focused engineers. We thought that if we had a product that was good enough, customers would automatically flock […]
Welcome to this year’s communication course and summer retreats
Even in this year of the pandemic a communication course and several summer retreats will take place at Acem’s retreat centres in Scandinavia.
We live in special times, with new information every day about the pandemic, infection prevention measures, and vaccines. We have become used to living with uncertainty: Can I go to work next week? […]
Intuitive opening – levels of meditative silence
By Halvor Eifring
“Why?” The West African guest stared uncomprehendingly at the Norwegian mountain ranges that his proud Norwegian hosts had driven so long and far to show him. For them, the value of the view and of the deep silence of the mountains was to be taken for granted. For him, it was at best […]
Stress reduction linked to lower defense – new study on Acem Meditation
In their first study from 2018, the authors showed that Acem Meditation improves stress management in a number of ways: better sleep, less anxiety, less mental distress, less pain. In a recent study, which was published in Frontiers in Psychology in January, they showed that meditators with a higher level of defensive functioning at the […]