Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter Blog

Path to Peace Stop Extending Your Worries Beyond This Life — This Isn’t Real

We worry about our legacy.How we’ll be remembered.Whether we mattered. But what if that entire burden was imagined? What if the thing you’re stressing about… doesn’t actually exist the way you think it does? This podcast explores why we carry worries past our own lifetime — and what happens when we finally put them down. Please enjoy other episodes where I share meditation techniques, tips and spiritual lessons from around…

Waking Up From Autopilot: How to Take Your Life Back

Whenever we find ourselves going into autopilot mode, one of the things we can do to snap ourselves out of it is to bring our attention back to ourselves. Something we don’t usually do. Especially when we're doing something, we rarely notice how we’re breathing. And usually we're not breathing great. Usually, we’re holding our breath a lot, or shallow breathing, so we’re not expanding our belly. And often, we’re…

How to Get Your Meditation Posture Right: 7 Simple Tips

This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.You are about to begin the single greatest daily habit you could ever do. Meditation improves every single aspect of a person’s life in countless ways. This is the only reason meditation has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.I believe that everyone can…

How to Sit for Meditation Without Discomfort

This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.When starting out, sit however is most comfortable for you without dozing off. That may be a chair, the floor, or even in bed with your head propped up by a few pillows or leaning back against the headboard.Keep your teeth slightly separated, and your jaw unclenched. You…

How to Prepare for Your First Meditation Session

This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.1) Does the Place of Meditation Matter?The place can affect our meditation practice, but it cannot make the practice better or worse. While a quiet place is ideal, a noisy place can increase our ability to maintain focus and peacefulness during chaotic times. It is an extra challenge, no…

Is Your Mind Creating the World You See?

Our minds are not much more than universe simulators. It is truly a remarkable feat that our minds can create such a perfect, solid internal recreation of the outer world. The fact that our minds can project all of the details of our universe, all of the intricate architecture around us, all the complicated details of a flower, in such high resolution, with such clear sound, is truly astonishing. But the…

Are You Taking On Suffering That Isn’t Yours?

When someone we love dies, where do they go? What is death?These are stories. They may be universal. We may all suffer immensely, but we are suffering a story. If your friend is moving away forever but going to live at Disney World, their favorite place on earth, you’re not really that sad. So it is our stories that we believe about death that make us suffer.In regard to something we…

Loving Someone Who Is at a Different Spiritual Place

What do you do if your partner is spiritually at a different place than you are? Ultimately, this question comes down to two things. There are really two broad stages of spirituality and spiritual development. Of course, within each stage there are many levels, but we can loosely divide them into beginner and advanced, those new, inexperienced meditators and mindful practitioners, and those who have been on the path for…

What Actually Changes When You Meditate Every Day?

This article is part of the ongoing Meditation for All challenge. Subscribers to the free newsletter receive weekly guidance and a daily practice.Why Should I Meditate?Have you ever noticed how after significant moments in your life, you have almost no memory of them?Like how you can give a big speech and it feels like you missed the whole thing. You gave the speech, or you were at your wedding, but…

Path to Peace What It Really Means to Be Human

I am fascinated by those timeless thoughts that every generations ponders: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life? For tens of thousands of years, humans have looked to the skies and wondered about these questions. And yet, after all that time, we're no closer to an answer. However, one key phrase keeps getting passed down: Know thyself. But what does…