The Gift of Meditation for Elders By Connie Zweig, Ph.D.
The Gift of Meditation for Elders By Connie Zweig, Ph.D. During the decades that I taught hundreds of people how to attune to the inner voices in their shadows, I also have urged them to meditate. In response, people have asked Why. If we allow into conscious awareness those thoughts and feelings that we most fear and dread — our rage, shame, envy, inferiority, abandonment — we need to be grounded in something larger than our individual identity, something beyond ego that lies within each of us. We need to cultivate and dwell in the silence of pure awareness in meditation so that when [...]