Sentences with word «meditator»

Held in the serene, beachfront lodge of Asilomar, this retreat is designed specifically for experienced meditators who want to spend an extended period in silence, deepening their meditation practice and awakening to the beauty and richness of their own internal life.

The chief advantage of SPECT is that it can capture the brains of meditators in a relatively natural setting.

Scientists detected significantly larger gray matter volumes in meditators in the right hippocampus.

These pathways were all downregulated in the regular meditator group versus the resort group post-intervention.

Held in the serene, beachfront lodge of Asilomar in Northern California's beautiful Monterey Peninsula, this retreat is designed specifically for meditators who want to spend an extended period in silence, deepening their meditation practice and awakening to the beauty and richness of their own internal life.

This course is suitable for students with no previous experience, as well as experienced meditators who wish to renew their practice.

All groups showed equivalently large immediate post-intervention improvements in well - being, but novice meditators showed greater maintenance of lower distress over time compared with those in the vacation arm.

Those pilots were as intensely focused on their instrumentation as meditators focused on mantras.

When listening to emotionally charged sounds, the long - term meditators showed greater activity in brain areas involved in experiencing emotion and empathy.

The most successful meditators on Coach.me started with just 2 - 5 minute sessions and were able to accept that their mind would wander.

Avid meditators also produce more antibodies to help fight the flu, so there's no better time like the present to get started in your practice.

Unconditional positive regard for the client creates a safe space in which the wounded parts of the self can emerge and be transformed.As a long time meditator, I love sharing Mindfulness Meditation techniques with my clients.

«The Big Quiet is to meditators what the Star Trek Convention is for Trekkies,» he said, «we've been holed up in our apartments meditating alone and finally we get to do it with a large community of like - minded folks.»

A recent study conducted at the Chopra Center found that after a six - day meditation retreat, new meditators experienced significant reductions in stress and depressive symptoms lasting 10 months after the retreat.

Effortless presence is for the more advanced meditator and is a practice where the attention is not focused on anything in particular but rests the attention in the quiet, empty void of nothingness.

After a week, I moved from sitting up in bed to sitting cross-legged on a pillow on the floor (aka what all the legit meditators do).

She is a best - selling author, certified yoga instructor, daily meditator, urban homesteader, and a mother.

The meditation clothing is designed from the clothes originally worn by meditators such as the monks, the Tibetans, the Buddhists, and all others.

Mindful movement specialist and meditation expert Lawrence Biscontini explains three techniques that will help novice meditators get started utilizing this powerful and healing technique.

Although this meditation method is still practiced by many modern meditators, it only -LSB-...]

Britton recently started a weekly online support group where meditators can share their challenges with each other.

We do not meditate to become good meditators.

Meditators benefit psychologically and physiologically.

She quickly confessed that she was a «bad meditator,» and I thought to myself, Welcome to the club.

This type of meditation clothing is what yoga meditators wear.

Group exhibitions include The Text: First Notions and Findings at Fabra iCoats Center d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Autonomous Regions at the Guangdong Times Museum, Guandong, China; Stage Presence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Big Picture, K21, Dusseldorf, Germany; The Art of Pop Video at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany; Embodying at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; and Meditators at the National Museum, Warsaw.

Alicia is a dedicated meditator practitioner attending Vipassana Silence Meditation retreats every year and studying meditation under respected Tantra Masters and Buddhist teachers.

They have more grey matter volume and while older meditators still had some volume loss, it wasn't as pronounced as the older non-meditators.

Meditators learn not only to control what specific body sensations they pay attention to, but also how to regulate attention so that it does not become biased toward negative physical sensations such as chronic pain.

In effect, what the researchers propose in their paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, is that by learning to control their focus on the present somatic moment, mindfulness meditators develop a more sensitive «volume knob» for controlling spatially specific, localized sensory cortical alpha rhythms.

You want to become a master meditator but have no aspirations to teach regularly.

It can be just as beneficial for seasoned meditators who feel like doing something simple, quick, and guided.

And, to be honest, most beginning meditators fall asleep during meditation, but there's a very small chance of that happening while walking.

Studies have revealed that meditators often experience reduced stress and deeper resilience.

Yoga practitioners and meditators know that breath awareness is a powerful, even life - changing thing.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

A range of towns were studied, comparing those with a higher proportion of transcendental meditators to those without.

Instead of responding like the serene Buddhist meditator I was trying to be, I cried and cursed and raised my fist at whoever was pulling the strings up there.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

They found that when meditators of several different traditions reported feelings of «effortless doing» and «undistracted awareness» during their meditation, their PCC showed little activity, but when they reported that they felt distracted and had to work at mindfulness, their PCC was significantly more active.