Sentences with phrase «altered by the meditation»

The researchers suspect that the microbiome was also altered by the meditation.

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There's no shortage of advice out there claiming to make you better, but mindfulness meditation is the rare, research - proven technique that boosts your performance by physically altering your brain.

The mystics often seek to experience God through altered states of consciousness, generally induced by trance or meditation instead of drugs.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

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.

It's all my fault that I pushed myself over the edge by self - inducing an altered state of consciousness through intense / deep prayer and meditation.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

By altering the context for pain via cognitive control and emotional regulation, meditation may change the way we perceive pain (i.e., viewing it as fleeting).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 In (di) visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX; Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC 2017 Translatio Imperii, Gutterbox Gallery, Raleigh, NC Digiscapes, Curated by Anthony Hamilton, Lump, Raleigh, NC Art on Paper, Curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT For Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia (solo) Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2015 Heterotopias as Other, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) 2014 The Orient, The Occident, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Mother Load, The Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go West!