Sentences with phrase «meditations by meditation»

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At TheSquareFoot, we make taking breaks from the grind a routine by holding in - office meditation sessions.

I go for a quick walk, get something to eat, do a few stretches by standing up and moving a bit, or just close my eyes for a quick mind - cleansing meditation.

Before I even check my email, I spend 10 to 15 minutes in quiet meditation, followed by another 10 to 15 minutes deliberately visualizing the day ahead.

In the meantime, we can do our part to keep our attentional focus sharp by first reducing distractions to improve our suppression capabilities, and then beefing - up the brain's enhancement functions through activities like exercise, meditation, outdoor time, and immersive video games.

Created by former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe (pictured) and Rich Pierson, the app teaches meditation to more than nine million people in 190 countries.

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

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.

Manage your stress by scheduling downtime through quick mental breaks each hour, meditation, giving daily gratitude, and journaling.

The nearly 40,000 - square - foot space, which was designed by Hyphen, is adorned in pink wallpaper, and its perks include a meditation room, photo studio, and fitting room for employees to change into their own rentals.

That is the mission behind Headspace, a Santa Monica, Calif. - based meditation company and app co-founded by Rich Pierson and Andy Puddicombe.

This meditation, by forcing us to articulate them in proper English, surfaces them, so they either lose their power (if they're silly) or can be confronted (if they're substantive).

Chock full of powerful perspectives, Meditations is an exploration on how to stay true to yourself and remain unaffected by externalities.

The GGSC suggests a practice adopted from Buddhist meditation and now backed up by science: «treating thoughts, whether negative or positive, more like smells, sights, tastes and sounds: things that arrive in your awareness, rather than things that constitute the essence of who you are.

I'm in the gym within five minutes of rising, where I exercise hard for thirty minutes, followed by fifteen minutes of meditation.

Mindfulness and meditation are not just a fad or fiction created by some new age gurus to sell you their latest book on self - discovery.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

I'm always amused by those professionals who manage to tell me they have no time for meditation, but on their own, they can't figure out why their life isn't working out the way they had planned.

I recently met with a group of entrepreneurs all of whom swore by Headspace and other meditation apps, claiming that it helped them to keep calm and to think more clearly.

Outside, there's a zen courtyard surrounded by orchids for meditation.

There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.

Instead, meditation is a practice that lets you hone control over your thoughts by coming to the realization that you can choose to empower specific thoughts while ignoring others.

Ferriss told us that he used to read passages about compassion by Buddhist writers and think, «OK, if you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving / kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.»

The same way you wouldn't start a running habit by running 10 miles on your first day, you shouldn't start a meditation routine by immediately attempting a 20 - minute session.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

Increasingly applied in western psychology, the practice of mindfulness comes out of the Buddhist tradition of meditation, and is championed by a growing number of celebrities, athletes and executives.

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«You can get the benefits of a formal meditation practice by weaving mini-meditations into your daily life,» he told Fast Company.

Those who commute by plane, train or bus can try downloading an app with guided five - or 10 - minute meditations.

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By 2012, InteraXon realized the best use of its expertise would be to help people understand and improve their minds through meditation rather than controlling objects.

By June 2015, the company had a services marketplace — an Uber - like app where users could quickly find, book and pay for health services such as massage, yoga, meditation and so on.

The concentration involved while taking Pure Barre allows you to block «life» out during class, creating the mental benefits similarly obtained by the practice of yoga or meditation.

Headspace was founded in 2010 as a meditation event business run by cofounders Pierson, a former marketing executive whose clients included body - spray purveyor Axe, and Andy Puddicombe, a Buddhist monk.

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So the 35 minute DVD followed by meditation really kept me grounded and connected and focused on my intention.

Two other books I've bought are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and The Wealth Dragon Way, also by Vincent Wong.

By developing a new positive habit, such as regular exercise, a meditation practice or making your bed in the morning, you will immediately reap the direct benefits of the new habit.

At the individual level, workers are embracing the freedom to indulge in «mindfulness» (including meditation, yoga, and even spiritual exercises at work), spearheaded by leaders such as Arianna Huffington (who joined WorkHuman live via satellite link) or Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, and inspired by books such as Pico Iyer's The Art of Stillness or David Gelles» Mindful Work.

«Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind's attention.»

Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides to how the Internet World would and would not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns to be heard by society, turned out to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Marcus begins his Meditations by situating himself personally, naming his parents, relatives, tutors, and those who contributed to shaping his character.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

Pope Benedict concluded his meditation in Turin by describing the Shroud as an «icon written in blood....

All 59 images are accompanied by a meditation that I'm sure are going to speak to you.

By the same token, we can no more imagine Cioran eating McKenna's magic mushrooms than sharing the latter's enthusiasm for the «ambient music» of the international youth culture - which might only drive him to one of his meditations on suicide that he has found to be «almost as liberating as the act itself.»

A few years ago I was done and I found myself to be met by Jesus through mindfulness meditation and 6 sessions of compassion therapy that afforded me compassion and a settling of the mind that I wasn't getting institutionally.

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

In America, Hinduism's profile was elevated by Indian immigrants who brought their customs and rituals with them and perhaps most recently, by the growing popularity of Hindu teachings like yoga and meditation.