Sentences with phrase «meditators do»

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).

Finally, Valentine and Sweet (1999) found that both mindfulness and concentrative meditators did better on a sustained attention task than controls, and mindfulness meditators were better than the other groups when the stimuli were unexpected, suggesting that they were less susceptible to the finding that focussed attention is impaired with unexpected stimuli.

The meditators did not show self - control depletion effects on the second task compared to a non-meditating group.

Not exact matches

In my experience, most of these buddhist Meditators (see what I did there?)

There have been studies done on long - term meditators, and researchers have found through FMRI's that there are distinct changes in areas of the brain that typically lead to greater levels of peace, well - being and better mental and emotional control.

Instead the purpose of the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study was to provide detailed descriptions of experiences and to start to understand the multiple ways they are interpreted, why they might happen and what meditators and teachers do to deal with them.

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.

Further, whereas our design did attempt to control for the vacation effect, we did not randomize regular meditators to the vacation and meditation arms, making it difficult to interpret the changes observed in the regular meditators, given they were compared with a control group comprising non-meditators.

«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.»

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

While knowing these various translations won't necessarily make us better meditators, it does give our practice some context.

«It is important to establish a foundation, though, so you don't turn into a crisis meditator.

But what if you don't have a group of experienced meditators to sit with?

However, the more modern yoga meditators, the ones who usually do the different body positions of yoga called fitness yoga, have fashioned it into a gym - type clothing, which basically uses something more body fitting and cotton fabric.

However, it can definitely be quite complicated, and many times, people don't fully explain it well, rendering the person unable to reap the full benefits of this activity.However, this book will tell you everything that you need to know about meditation, and by the end of this, you'll know everything about how to engage in basic meditations, including the following: - The purpose of meditation - The history of meditation - The ideal positions and breathing for meditation - How breathing changes the state of your meditation - Further understanding the goal of meditation and allowing yourself the chance to achieve this By the end of this, you'll know how to become the best meditator you can be.

Outside of work, I am a mom and wife; artist and gardener; meditator, and do my own psychotherapy.»