Sentences with phrase «body practices such»

As a working mother with a demanding full - time job, I have immense gratitude for the benefits of mind - body practices such as meditation, mindfulness, and yoga.

While a long swim or jog might leave us drained, ancient mind - body practices such as yoga and...

Mind - body practices such as yoga, tai chi and qigong can increase awareness of how the body is feeling while shifting attention away from thoughts that perpetuate anxiety and depression.

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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.

The daily meditations can include a body scan, breathing meditation and mindful approaches to everyday practices such as eating, brushing teeth or washing up mindfully.

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.

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.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

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.

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.

The responder may begin with a phrase such as «Let's see if I understand how it looks to you...» and then he paraphrases what he thinks the other is expressing, (d) Switch roles and try to state each other's position and feelings on one issue on which you have obvious differences of viewpoint, (e) Practice nonverbal communication by attempting to get messages through to each other with the use of touch, facial expressions, body movements, gestures, eye communication.

@GOPer My hope, though I will never see it, that all crazy religious practices such as the taliban beheading youngstesr because they chose to party, the muslim brotherhood attacking koptik christians, the vicar of christ condemning condoms and the resulting spread of aids, the right o a woman to control her own body, etc. the horror done in the name of religion still goes on.

In theory and to a certain extent in practice solidarity exists among the followers of Mohammed, but it does not show itself in ecclesiastical bodies such as are the Christian churches.

A concerted practice may be established in the absence of any direct contact between the firms, for example where firms communicate indirectly through an intermediary such as a peak industry body; or

In a practice called grounding, studies show that activities such as walking barefoot outside, sitting on the roots of a tree or gardening relieves the human body of symptoms of anxiety and depression.

But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Practicing mind body techniques such as yoga, relaxation, imagery and meditation offer both psychological and physiological benefits to both mother and baby during pregnancy.

In the right circumstances, such a body could have a useful role to play in the provision of professional development and training, commissioning high - quality research and sharing professional practice.

«The issue is that basically unclaimed bodies are being released without any sort of consideration of the person's possible religious or personal beliefs on whether or not they want to be used for such practices,» said Queens Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz, who sponsored the legislation with state Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn).

A significant body of research shows that such distributed practice leads to more accurate and more durable learning.

«Mind - body practices» such as mindfulness meditation are claimed to protect against stress - related diseases, but how these might improve physical health is unclear.

Instead, the large reductions in fish urine were driven by the reduction of large - bodied fish and predator fish such as grouper, snapper or barracuda that occurs through selective fishing practices.

Because the eye is «immune - privileged» — relatively isolated from the body's immune system — such a response was considered less likely than in other parts of the body, but the idea needed to be tested in practice.

Practicing the deep squat can help you fix many weaknesses in your body, such as muscle imbalances, muscle tightness, poor coordination of the core muscles, dormant glutes, etc., thereby improving your overall athletic performance and musculoskeletal health.

But adding complementary therapies like supplements (specifically, omega - 3 fatty acids found in fish oils), Tai Chi or yoga, mind - body therapies (such as biofeedback), and even spiritual practices (including forgiveness), to conventional medications for heart disease is getting a lot of attention and can lower risk, says Victor Sierpina, MD, chairman of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

IFNA ™ training includes skill - building and competencies in key clinical areas: nutrition - focused physical assessment; therapeutic elimination diets; conventional and functional labs and diagnostics including nutrigenetic testing; art and science of dietary supplements; mind - body modalities such as meditation, yoga, breathing techniques and other lifestyle - oriented practices.

The concept was simple: bring the body to such health and wholeness that it can be still and not interfere with hours of meditation practice.

Unlike a dynamic yang practice that works the muscles through repetition, Yin works the deeper layers of the body such as the fascia, connective tissues, joints and bones.

In your first module, Dr. Lipman will cover the basics, such as what exactly a detox entails and why you should do it, how your gut is connected to the rest of your body, as well as a few personal stories from his practice.

Since yoga is such an important practice, Shri Kali Ashram welcomes the idea of Yoga Alliance ® as an external body to maintain the quality of teaching and legality for the benefit and advantage of students.

How beautiful is it that such a practice can not only strengthen our bodies but also brings us to inner balance?

IFN training includes skill - building in key clinical areas including: nutrition - focused physical assessment, therapeutic elimination diets, conventional and functional labs and diagnostics including nutrigenetic testing, mind - body modalities such as meditation, yoga, breathing techniques, art and science of dietary supplements and other lifestyle - oriented practices.

Mindfulness is a way of life that can be cultivated with daily practices such as sitting and walking meditations, body scans and mindful movement.

I'll admit that on an easy rest day I will sometimes eat just 25 - 50g of carbohydrates, but that's certainly not a daily practice for me, and if you're engaging in that level of carbohydrate restriction, I'd highly recommend you pay attention to important markers of metabolism such as morning body temperature, dry, cracked skin, and enormous sugar cravings accompanied by very low energy levels.

I truly believe that the practice of yoga is a gracious opportunity to cultivate awareness — in our bodies as well as in our hearts and minds — so that we can manifest such practices of mindfulness, compassion, patience, humility, and Love off of our mats, in our daily lives.

Jahmaal has a vast knowledge of health practices that help the body heal itself such as manual therapies, herbal medicine, energetic therapies, and other natural healing modalities.

Using practices such as breath and body awareness along with mindful speaking, listening and journaling, students will discover how these qualities can serve to cultivate an attitude of gratitude, compassionate action towards ourselves and others, and a positive and peaceful existence.

Establishing a strong connection between the body, mind, and soul through advanced meditation practices such as Yoga Nidra.

-- Practice regular body scan mediations, such as those prescribed by the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) model taught by Jon Kabat - Zinn.

In the practice of yoga, techniques such as pratyahara (the turning of the senses inward) and dhyana (meditation) quiet the mind so that the body's response improves and stress is reduced.

Meditation and Mindful Exercise Mindful practices such as Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Pilates, and yoga are excellent for building and balancing mind and body.

Specializing in complex illnesses, such as autoimmune disease, fertility and women's health, integrative mental health, and supportive cancer care, she utilizes a mind - body approach in her practice.

One of the reasons why ashtanga yoga incorporates such a strong asana practice is to prepare the breath and body for deeper breath and meditation practices.

Candidates must believe in a Nature Cure approach and must be familiar with at least one of the following modalities: IV therapy, raw food nutrition, exercise therapy and possibly practice some mind body procedures such as meditation, yoga, EFT, stress management, breath work or other psychotherapy or bodywork techniques.

These chiropractors will also integrate their practice with various other approaches such as acupuncture, physical therapy, iridology, massage, mind / body and energy healing.

Training and practicing all over the world in many styles of Hatha yoga such as vinyasa flow and set series along with the many injuries from dancing and sports has given her great knowledge about alignment and learning how to connect the mind, body and breath!

Take out a few minutes from the schedule and practice specific yogaasanas, such asSeated Forward Fold (Paschimottasana), Half Lord of the Fishes (Ardha Matsyendrasana), Trikonasana (Triangle Pose) Uttana Shishosana (Extended Puppy Pose), Child Pose (Balasana), etc. to keep your body's digestive system in check while keeping it active and light.

I had no idea that yoga could be such an intensive practice and provide much more for my body than an increase in flexibility.