Sentences with phrase «body practices in»

Her enthusiasm for mindfulness and other mind / body practices in schools comes from her own discoveries with contemplative practices, and from her experience teaching in the classroom.

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

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.

«In football, you can only practice so much physically, but with e-sports, your body doesn't get worn down as fast,» Leone says.

Other South American civilizations, like the Incas and the Aztec, practiced ritual human sacrifice, but archaeologists have never found children's bodies in such a high concentration before.

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.

Years ago when I played ultimate five or six days a week, practicing in the rain until my body ached, playing four or five games a day two days in a row, being sore and painfully scabbed for months.

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.

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»

Treating his body with respect and in accordance with his religious practices also demonstrates to the world that we are not against Islam.

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 eyeIn 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 eyein our voices and through our eyes.

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.

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.

Women also face a contradiction in how they are valued for their spiritual and intellectual capacities but are also judged by their bodies, in both appearance (modesty) and activity (sexual practices).

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.

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 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 1970In 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 1970in 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.

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.

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.

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.

The secularization of the breast in early modern Western Europe began a long process in which Christianity came to be seen increasingly as focused on beliefs and doctrines, while bodies and physical practices were marginalized.

When dissection of corpses began to be publicly practiced in medical theaters, medical illustrations — such as those in Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica — drew public interest to mapping the interior of human bodies.

While the Koran is the one completely sacred book of the Moslems, there exists alongside it a considerable body of supplementary material which is almost as important as the Koran itself in the determination of Moslem belief and practice.

You are now attempting to take the practice of «meditation,» which is typically understood, and defined and practiced, especially in the Easter Religious context as a «quieting, and stilling of the body and mind, to clear the mind of negativity, and create states of peace, harmony, joy, etc...

Because of the Jewish practice, they had very good reason for believing that some unknown Jews in Jerusalem had treated the body of Jesus in exactly the same way as they would have done with any other executed criminal, and thus buried it.

/ During the next few days, practice being in touch with what occurs in your body, how alive or unalive it feels in different situations.

She encourages us to practice these every day in caring for our own bodies and the bodies of one another with tenderness and respect.

In Practicing Our Faith we talk about practices that address fundamental human needs: honoring the body, hospitality, household economics, saying yes and saying no, keeping Sabbath, testimony, discernment, shaping communities, forgiveness, healing, dying well and singing our lives.

Persons who respect, enjoy, and care for their bodies by general wellness practices are less inclined to engage in self - hurting behavior such as smoking, chronic overeating, or over drinking of alcohol.

In her lovely chapter on «honoring the body» in Practicing Our Faith, Stephanie Paulsell writes about the deepest Christian beliefs concerning the human bodIn her lovely chapter on «honoring the body» in Practicing Our Faith, Stephanie Paulsell writes about the deepest Christian beliefs concerning the human bodin Practicing Our Faith, Stephanie Paulsell writes about the deepest Christian beliefs concerning the human body.

I have had to learn slowly and diligently to practice shalom in my body — not for someday when I'm a certain size, not for someday when I take up less space, not for theological purposes, not for when I'm dead, not as a hotly contested spiritual concept but here and right now, I want to make peace with my body.

This distinction between essential or perfect, and unessential or imperfect, features in the church mitigated somewhat the bad effect of the division of Christianity and of its radical separation into two bodies which, by practicing an irreconcilable hostility, might endanger the cultivation of the Christian religion as such.

Involved here is the practice of meditation, which in Shingon tradition is a skillful method (upaya) of integrating our body, speech, and mind (the «three mysteries» or sanmitsu) with the eternal harmony of Dainichi's Body, Speech, and Mbody, speech, and mind (the «three mysteries» or sanmitsu) with the eternal harmony of Dainichi's Body, Speech, and MBody, Speech, and Mind.

Iraq is a big land and has many bordering countries and a population of many Races, and many Religions and Faiths that were known or unknown beliefs... all of those lived in harmony during S - adam regime and every body was practicing his rights with out fear or with just a little fear But now having messed up the whole setup and the control of this mixed nation that were under a secular umbrella has cleverly for some ended it to be handed to Religious extremes at all sides of borders who are now fighting each other for taking control over the country or having it divided in to pieces.

It is possible to think about the beatified soul partly because (especially in the work of women mystics and Bonaventure, and in light of the practice of dismemberment of the saints for dispersion into reliquaries) «a new use of synecdoche throbs with enthusiasm for body and for all that to which body gives us access.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

Second, Christian practices are all aimed at building up the body and serving God in Christ.