Sentences with phrase «body practice of»

There is «promising evidence» that the popular mind - body practice of yoga is beneficial in managing and improving the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease and is a «potentially effective therapy» for cardiovascular health.

Not exact matches

Continually practicing this technique can help you drill down to the source of the tension you carry in your body.

Surgeons say no mannequin or computer simulation can replicate the tactile response and emotional experience of practicing on human body parts.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

Don't just practice awareness of your own body language.

Even if you're a naturally shy person, you can learn to change the way you hold yourself, your body language, the tone of your voice, and more with consistent practice.

They left it all out there, each and every day, regardless of whether the context was the film room, the practice field or the way in which they were taking care of their bodies.

When you see an accountant, a doctor, an engineer or a lawyer, that person has a rigorous code of professional practice with which he or she must comply, ongoing professional development obligations, a common body of knowledge as a barrier to entry, a body of peers that oversees any complaints or misconduct, and must pay an annual fee in order to practice.

As The Drucker Institute has noted, The Practice of Management was the first book «to organize the art and science of running an organization into an integrated body of knowledge.»

Research on the neuroscience of mindfulness substantiates what the sages have known for ages: mindfulness practice builds an increased state of calm in the mind - body.

Mr. Bowsher was also Chairman of the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self - regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mindful eating is the practice of deliberately paying attention while eating, focusing on nothing but your food and how your body feels while eating it.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

Over the last 60 years the profession has progressed in the United States (and throughout the world), with the development of standards of training and a body of research to guide credentialed practitioners in the ethical practice of art therapy.

1: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially: the study of God and of God's relation to the world 2 a: a theological theory or system b: a distinctive body of theological opinion 3: a usually 4 - year course of specialized religious training in a Roman Catholic major seminary»

It's a practice almost as stupid as eating the «body» and drinking the «blood» of Christ, although not quite as gross.

the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices....

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

- We are not a single body of people nor is there a particular set of beliefs AND practices.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyes.

This is a form of prayer for the world as the body of God that we, as lovers and friends of the world, are summoned to practice.

While it is linked to the representative Jewish organizations of most countries, in practice, as in any other independent body, its leaders set their own agendas.

Following tradition and a practice recommended by saints, I can join my spirit to the body and blood of Christ by lifting up to God my desire for Holy Communion even when I don't consume a consecrated host.

Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

This is a practice of resurrection for me now: I am consistently speaking truth, living truth, embodying truth about my body and your body.

The set will include practices of teaching and learning, practices of research, practices of governance of the school's common life, practices having to do with maintenance of the school's resources, practices in which persons are selected for the student body and for the faculty, and practices in which students move through and then are deemed to have completed a course of study.

Is it funded by the United Fund or the Government or a body which holds member agencies accountable for accepted standards of practice?

Actually, it is the body of religious teachings and practices that form the many paths to that which goes beyond the material.

Harmony with nature and one's own body, a more «feminine» and less dominating attitude toward one's self and others, an ability to accept feelings and emotions — including feelings of weakness and despair — a willingness to accept personal variety, have all been valued and tried in practice.

We characterized congregations (about whom these three types of questions guide «understanding») as sets of practices; and we characterized «practices» as patterns of intentional bodied action.

Heard few crying over why not being able to penetrate to some countries internet for hearing them out while practicing their rights of expression and speech and today I am here to do what i have been told to do I am told to stop, because I allowed my self to intervene commenting on your affairs, but every body else at yours has the right to mingle with our affairs as Arabs or Muslims?

We also recognize time as God's gift when we respect the daily needs of the body, when we offer attention to the people and experiences of the immediate present, when we set aside a portion of each day for attention to God, when we remove impediments to the authentic use of time, and when we practice the sabbath, a practice that receives considerable attention in Bass's book.

In Christ we can overcome the lust of our body or our selfish old nature, and practice love of neighbour and love to God.

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

We must reclaim the use of ascetic practices as tools for the care of both body and soul, for we have ignored the bodily practices that recognize and affirm our incarnated life in which what we do is as important as what we think.

But an even more unfortunate result of the cavalier treatment of historical asceticism is the loss of ascetic practices as tools for the present care and cure of our own bodies and souls.

The body, described by Christian faith as an integral and permanent aspect of human being, must be explicitly cared for and enhanced by any ascetic practice that we accept as good for our souls.

Any of these ascetic practices might at some time be highly effective and valuable for locating and treating the habituation and addiction that result finally in a dullness of body and mind.

The customary practice in our society of embalming and publicly viewing the body is one way of doing this, but it is by no means the only way.

This shift in practice, together with the judgment that it reflects regarding the significance of the corporeal body of Israel, is the heart and soul of supersessionism.

Odin, the chief god of the Norse, was associated with death by hanging, and a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice by strangling has some archeological support in the existence of bodies perfectly preserved by the acid of the Jutland (later taken over by the Daner people) peatbogs, into which they were cast after having been strangled.

I had seen certain patient practices of transformation work seemingly miraculous change in the souls and bodies of some young men, and I had seen them discern both the personal and the political potential of such change.

And because of that, the only way that you can make your fleshly version of the gospel work is to say that you will always be a practicing sinner, because you either have no plans to leave certain sins, and / or have believed the lie that those sins will always be more powerful than the body, and blood of Yahshua, so you say that they can not be overcome.

The men had a lot of interest in discussing body posture for the practice of silence, and how to keep comfortable during a period of silence.

This interest is part of a wider movement of reclaiming practices that cultivate the habits of heart, mind and body that form faithful Christians, build Christian character and enrich church life.

The transformation of devotional attitudes, of concepts, rites and institutions, the rise of new and the decline of old ideas and practices under the impact of these factors with respect to the different religious bodies has not been sufficiently investigated.

C.J. Fuller, The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India (New Delhi: Viking, 1992), pp. 236 - 240 and David F. Pocock, Mind, Body and Wealth: A Study of Belief and Practice in an Indian Village (Oxford: Blackwell, 1973), pp. 28 - 33.

They found one, says Tacitus, in a body of people known as «Christians,» who were generally disliked by the Roman populace for their disgraceful practices.