Sentences with phrase «kind of meditation on»

At the same time, Activision and Sledgehammer have sold this installment of COD as a kind of meditation on the costs of violence.

The ubiquitous place names and imagery that surround Americans throughout their lives are constant and powerful reminders, and a kind of meditation on that unresolved past that continues to shape our present.

So there are many things, you know, we have, we have, it's a reality, it's a cartoon reality that has a serious kind of meditation on the self, on transients and on absence, amongst other things.

In doing so, Yossifor encourages not only an expansion of the vernacular of Abstract Expressionism but also a different kind of meditation on its function and, as a result, its political potential.

Not exact matches

Take the 15 minutes right after lunch to refocus on the day — a kind of professional meditation.

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.

And certainly there are other kinds of prayer that can have meaning for us: prayers for guidance, prayers of praise, prayers whose goal is meditation on God or a feeling of union with God.

There's breath work, reading, exercises, and recorded guided meditations, as well as all kinds of practical tips on the use of minerals, flower remedies, etc. as tools for grounding and stress relief.

Believe me, it's kind of out of character for me as I've never been big on meditation or yoga or anything like that.

Poor Azalea, innocently enjoying a bit of space in that clear mind of hers and I am filling it with the kind of control - seeking anxiety I have been trying to let go of for years on my meditation cushion.

Just like physical exercise, the kind of improvements you get with meditation depend on exactly how you train

15 healthy individuals who hadn't meditated before attended four x 20 - minute sessions to learn a technique of meditation called focused attention, which is a kind of mindfulness meditation that teaches individuals to focus on the breath and release all distracting emotions and thoughts.

Like, if you do a walking meditation, three to five minutes on appreciation and gratitude, and then three to five minutes on visualizing kind of what it is you want to create or manifest.

As you move, you breathe deeply and naturally, focusing your attention — as in some kinds of meditation — on your bodily sensations.

My guest on today's podcast has cracked the code on what kind of meditation works for all these goals, and for many more.

In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers assessed the effect of 10 Headspace meditation sessions on aspects of well - being.

Take Time to Meditate - Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm any kind of expert on meditation or relaxation.

But the strongest of the female - led films I've screened so far at the festival is Raw (A --RRB-, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers of all kinds.

It is a meditation on Nietzsche who, in Turin in 1889, was said to have seen a horse being thrashed, and protectively threw his arms around the beast, then sobbingly collapsed due to some kind of breakdown, possibly a stroke.

Riches: It's kind of a composite of my experiences in Miami over the years — from having my bicycle stolen to seeing street dogs and chickens to the art fairs to hearing a friend's story about a meditation class, and so on.

If not meditation, then medication — the kind of drug that will make me dimwitted and giddy enough to laugh at giant penguins on sight.

About Gilbert and Sullivan responding to withering criticism of «Princess Ida» by making a comeback with «The Mikado», it's the kind of film that perhaps shouldn't work but does — magnificently, thanks to a clutch of great performances and unshowy but precise direction, which ensures the movie succeeds on three levels: as an illuminating, partly self - reflexive meditation on the creative process; as an unusually vivid insight into just how different the world was as recently as the 1880s (all that wariness of the newfangled telephone!)

With so much focus on something else, it's a kind of healthy meditation... and, even better, I have no time to think about work.

On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.

Both kinds of work highlight the presence of the photographic object and function as self - conscious meditations on photography's ongoing reorganization of our mental and physical landscape.

The kind of meditation I did on oil [in a book published in 2008], I'm doing on water.

Kjartansson has been working his way into the art world's collective heart with his funny, romantic, and moving videos and performances, which often extend over many hours in a kind of repetitious meditation on subjects like love and longing.

After 50 years as an artist, Leonard Contino has generated a compelling body of work that, according to Rose, places him as «a visionary artist, in the tradition of Kupka, Klee, Kandinsky and such Americans as Dove and Hartley who «saw art as a kind of spiritual meditation on cosmic phenomena.»

Humans have a lot of different kinds of attention, some for reading or for conversation, others for creative activity, still others for artistic practice, dance, meditation, music and so on.

At one point in that performance, which combined spoken word and dance to count down the years in Nigeria's history, Onikeku paused to hand out tambourines and maracas to members of the audience, then sat on the ground and began a kind of meditation.

In the studio at present are works that seem meditations on various kinds of brushstrokes: thin brushstrokes captured in monochrome; wave - like brushstrokes captured in modeling paste like water lapping on a sea shore; and black brushstrokes arching over fluorescent bleeds.

Photographs are presented in multiple formats, to emphasise their status as objects, not as mimetic devices merely depicting their subject: there are large scale, unique silver gelatin prints, with the inky, seductive, saturated blacks that are characteristic of Beasley's hand - printed method; there is a stack of litho - prints that you can help yourself to, and there are photographic postcards on the kind of dumb, commercial rotating stand that ought to threaten a fine art practice but has instead been co-opted by Beasley to extend her meditation on the currency of the photographic image.

And I think what's interesting is, as you'll hear, Doug and his book differentiate kind of the relaxation mindfulness meditation techniques that work really well for some people, and what he does with his more focused, what he calls driven, meditation is a totally different technique, and is designed especially for people who aren't trying to relax, but instead are trying to focus their minds, and that it turns out that different styles of meditation can have completely different effects on your brain.

When he's not overdosing on meditation and geek news of all kinds, he's hacking and tweaking something, often while mumbling in 4 or 5 other languages.

You can go to therapy, read books, work on your own self - improvement, take up meditation, take up some kind of sport (physical activity does amazing things for your emotional health!)