Sentences with phrase «about meditation when»

I first heard about meditation when I was 23 and traveling in India.

I only became serious about meditation when I could no longer handle the stress of my job.

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«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in thMeditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in thmeditation centers in the country.

It's a little like meditation — OK, maybe it's not — but it really helps when you can force certain thoughts away and only think about the pattern: Do a set of pushups, stretch a little, take a sip of water, occasionally move a penny into place, check the stopwatch, and then start another set.

However we may feel about adoration and praise, including it in «vocal» prayer or letting it serve as a kind of borderline approach to «mental» prayer, it is obvious that when we come to meditation we are concerned with a kind of exercise that can quite readily be carried on with no verbal articulation u such.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

«When the baby wakes up in the middle of the night «for no good reason»... rather than worrying about how tired I'll be the next day or get frustrated that he isn't sleeping through the night, I choose to practice my «middle of the night» walking meditation.

Remember, when you enter into meditation with the spirit of curiosity, exploration, and allowing, I suspect meditation for you will no longer about being «good» or «bad.»

Meditation is about reigning in your mind when it strays.

My thinking about meditation had become a cage: I needed to do it every day without fail; I wanted to reach a quiet mind; I had expectations around it and was disappointed when I couldn't meet them.

I know that I talk about meditation all day every day, but even though I need only four minutes to get to my serene place, the truth is that meditation isn't necessarily my only way to keep my calm when the kids are running circles around me and I have deadlines to meet.

His passion for TM (transcendental meditation) oozes through him as he delivers one enthusiastic soundbite after another — you can feel him light up when he talks about the practice.

When asked about his own personal meditation practice, he speaks enthusiastically, saying he's meditated «every day, twice a day, for 37 years.»

When we talk about meditation from a Buddhist perspective, there are typically two streams that we're referencing.

So she was thrilled when we had the chance to talk with Mark about the app, the how and why of it's creation, and his mission to make meditation as common as prenatal vitamins.

I've been drawn to a lot of healing things lately, healing sounds, healing frequencies, infrared sauna, meditation, breath work, really good deep tissue work, and, you know, I was speaking with my wife about a week ago and she commented on the fact that in the thirteen years that we've been married, when she met me, I was a bodybuilder and a spin instructor, she doesn't think she's ever seen me take any more than, perhaps, a couple of days off of an extremely hard charging life, in which I'm replying to literally hundreds of emails a day, squeezing in the type of exercise sessions that allow me to do masochistic things, volunteering, jetting around the globe, you name it.

So I started journaling and then I started reading about meditation, and then when you're not like hungover every morning or any morning rather, you go, «Okay, well, maybe I've — I'm gonna go to bed a little earlier.»

Our teenage» Mindfulness Hero - Utkarsh» surprised us all when we found out that he was passionate about meditation...

When you sign up, you'll be asked about your prior experience with meditation, what your goals are, and what time of day you want to meditate.

Use a timer to let you know when your meditation is done, this helps you forget about the passage of time, a state of mind which fits in nicely with your meditation practice.

You can still hear the sound around you, but when you're deep in thought about your object of meditation, even those will not disturb you.

One last thing... when it comes to aphrodisiacs, we can not forget about the importance of meditation.

Week Six: Lifestyle and Exercise: In this module you are going to learn about the power of meditation and mindfulness, how to stay motivated when implementing new lifestyle and exercise techniques and how to balance life and your new found lifestyle.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So when you're doing this meditation, you're putting your visualization on the word peace and are you doing that same breath pattern you talked about, the — the 4 -4-6-2?

Take a deep breath, relax and let Deborah explain the three most important things you need to think about when starting a meditation practice.

Mr. Eastwood first spoke publicly about Transcendental Meditation in 1975 when he appeared on «The Merv Griffin Show» with the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

When a job didn't turn out to be as stimulating as she'd hoped, the Chicago resident turned to yoga and meditation — then founded a wellness destination for other Black women to see themselves included in conversations about mental health and health - conscious living.

The answer: When Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) writes and directs a movie about it and turns the result into a mesmerizing meditation on the state of Russia today.

Director J.A. Bayona's lovely meditation on loss took me completely by surprise at a time when I was not exactly excited about seeing yet another film about a kid who befriends a computer - animated giant.

McTiernan's script, to date his only screenwriting credit, is some superficial fluffernutter about restless inuat (spirits of Inuit mythology) haunting the L.A. living — except when it's a diffuse meditation on the stateless qualities of Angelenos and California in general.

With Alain Resnais's Muriel, or The Time of Return now streaming on FilmStruck, Leo Robson explores how this radical meditation on memory «invites broader questions about what happens when we return to a movie: Is rewatching a compliment or a bet...

It's only been a few weeks since Wild Wild Country debuted on Netflix, but the streaming service is already preparing to drop yet another addictive, true crime docuseries that may be the perfect remedy for when you finally tire of talking about the Rajneeshees» shocking escalation from meditation to attempted murder.

In this meditation on the paralyzing terror Americans feel when confronted with something they don't understand - from foreigners to tropical viruses to universal health care - Abramsky delivers an eye - opening analysis of our misconceptions about risk and threats, and how our brains interpret them, both at a neurological level and at a conscious one.

-- Meditation Journal: You may enter notes about each session when the timer ends — a practice that many people find to be helpful and therapeutic.

Both stories were the same story, despite the manifest differences between me and White: together I hoped they would work as an extended meditation on how, when we are talking about nature, we are usually talking about ourselves.

TreeHugger meditation for a Saturday afternoon: what do you think about when you watch waste come to life, garbage art imitating nature, the unseen being seen?

If meditation really isn't your thing, then strive for uninterrupted, deeply focused work time, when you don't think about anything else at hand or respond to outside demands.

What is true meditations is presenting, and presenting is the simple technique of actually getting your central nervous system, or your reptilian brain, attached to the time machine, which is up in our neocortex, up in our head, and when they're working together, and, you know, once my resonating field is accurate about what's happening around me, we call that flow.

Each day when you sit down to meditate, let go of trying to become an expert and don't worry about correctly practicing meditation.