Sentences with phrase «meditators on»

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

And get this, some insurance companies even offer lower premiums to meditators on the basis that they are less likely to get sick!

TIME magazine featured a blissed - out meditator on a February cover and «mindfulness» conferences are popping up faster than Google employee buses in San Francisco.

Not exact matches

When the research team used a specially designed computer program to evaluate the «brain age» of 50 meditators versus 50 non-meditators, it found «experienced meditators have brains that appear 7.5 years younger, on average, than non-meditators,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog.

The prototypical meditator is a monk sitting for endless hours or the dedicated practitioner spending silent weeks away on retreats.

On any given day I reckoned that about a third of the men were regular meditators, a third were trying to find their way into the practice, and a third were merely using the opportunity to get out of their cells or amass «good time.»

It is also true that a Zen meditator in training hears numerous sermons on Buddhist truth, and frequently chanted scriptures; he participates in a rigidly prescribed manner of life that has no allowable variation save in that awful moment of truth when he confronts the roshi on his own and must speak forth what he himself knows of enlightening truth.

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.

«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.

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

The conference included six presentations on meditation research, including a study by Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin that was supported by the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute, in which the brain waves of meditating Tibetan monks were monitored and compared with those of novice meditators.

They examined the effect of meditation on gene expression patterns in both novice and regular meditators.

Given the chance to observe real - time feedback on their PCC activity, some meditators were even able to control the levels of activity there.

To characterize the impact of vacation versus meditation on regulatory networks in blood, we computed three different GE signatures: (1) changes across all treatment groups between the baseline and follow - up time points, and (2 and 3) differences between the regular meditators versus the vacation and novice meditator groups at the follow - up time points.

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Studies conducted on Buddhist monks showed a greater increase of gray matter in the region of the brain associated with empathy, even more so than western meditators.

Meditators are instructed to focus on the passage of air through the nostrils or the rise and fall of one's diaphragm with each breath taken.

Cranky knees, a whining back, tight hips, and the chorus of bodily sensations that take center stage after time on the cushion can become a roadblock for any aspiring meditator.

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Both meditations have a large following; the style of meditation chosen by the meditator depends on the meditator's personal preference and reason for meditation.

Melissa Wood - Tepperberg is a mom, certified health and wellness coach, yoga and pilates teacher, meditator, and thriving on a plant based diet.

One aspect of this emphasis on the importance of scientific verification that I find alternately disquieting and amusing is the reductionist misconception that yoga practice and effects can be fully understood in analytical and biochemical terms; that if we study the brain waves of meditators, for example, we will understand the nature of consciousness and the causes of the transcendent experience some meditators report.

Whether you are an experienced meditator or a novice, Yoga Nidra meditation is very easy and you can enjoy the benefits after one session; you just relax on your back, and listen to the instructions given.

Meditators, on the other hand, demonstrate superior performance on tests of self - regulation, resisting distractions and making correct answers more often than non-meditators.

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).

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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.

Drawing on his deep experience as a therapist and meditator, Dr. Amodeo has given us one of those rare books that actually bridges left and right brain, west and east, flesh and spirit - and self and other.

The distinction between meditators and non-meditators has been shown to influence item - response tendencies on mindfulness questionnaires (Baer et al., 2008; Van Dam, Earleywine, & Danoff - Burg, 2009) and may account for the relatively larger portion of variance explained in the Shaver et al. (2007) study (R2 = 42 %), versus 18 % in the study by Walsh et al. (2009), which included trait anxiety as a co-predictor, and 14 % in the present study.

Differential item function across meditators and non-meditators on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire.