Sentences with phrase «of meditation experiences»

Mndful is the ideal place to unwind and find that mind / body connection to improve your overall well being and happiness.Nscape, who's studio is located in Flatiron offers four different types of meditation experiences: Focus, Mindfulness, Mantra, and Visualization.

Ortner et al. (2007) tested participants who differed in the length of their meditation experience and found that the longer a participant had been meditating, the less emotional interference they showed.

The effects of meditation experience emerged both for pleasant and unpleasant pictures.

Couples Therapy Marriage Counseling New Jersey 10 Benefits of Meditation We all experience stress, strain, and anxiety, often on a daily basis.

A recent study shows that adults with a lot of meditation experience, show increased possibilities to focus attention, and improved inhibition of automatic responses compared to non-meditators (Van der Hurk et al. 2010).

Not exact matches

Chopra, fresh off of unveiling a new stress - relieving virtual reality meditation experience, which he partnered with VR content studio Wevr to create, says the key to happiness lies in how we cope and calm down.

They don't see workaholism as a badge of honor and their experience is that meditation has made them more productive, not less.

In her new role, Shechtman will be tasked with bringing Story's interactive experiences — which, over the past 40 iterations of the store, have included everything from virtual reality meditation to a hot - towel shave station — to Macy's, a legacy retailer searching for relevance in a rapidly shifting retail climate.

Seeking internal answers from meditation and other subjective and emotional experiences as a substi - tute for the Bible is one example of a man - centered approach.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

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

She already had enough experiences for a lifetime of meditation.

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

Having had a out of body experience and now being able to induce it through meditation, it is not a belief system for me.

Simply find out for yourself through meditation techniques which lead to out of body experiences.

I should only like to mention this problem and to bring it to the attention of my readers, recommending It to their meditation with regard to their own Christian experience.

He is the author of Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality and The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

In his words: «Perhaps the encounter with the transpersonal existence of the Buddhist, the recognition of the serenity and strength it embodies, the experience of Buddhist meditation, and the study of Buddhist philosophy will give us the courage to venture into that kind of radical love which can carry us into a postpersonal form of Christian existence» (Cobb 1975, 220).

I have some experience with it, having studied and taught it to undergraduate students for ten years, and having practiced Buddhist meditation periodically, most meaningfully under the guidance of a Zen Buddhist master from Japan for whom I served as a language instructor for one year.

Engaged with a team of Lutherans in planning a «retreat,» I was asked to devise a «monastic meditation experience» for the participants.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

On pc search put (words of peace) on the site a large selection of videos / in which Prem Rawat talks of meditation / bringing a unfolding of the spiritual self via very practical spiritual experience / experiences in answering all questions.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

I have had to be doing a lot of self - therapy to rescue my brain from the adverse psychological experiences which I have had as a result of intense prayer and meditation.

Based on your comments above regarding the Buddhists monks, it is clear / obvious that if I didn't experience adverse effects when engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation but instead experienced oneness and tranquility just like the Buddhist monks then for sure, you wouldn't accuse me of being an unorthodox enthusiast engaging in self - manufactured religion.

In working through my experience I have come to realize that Christianity is trying to achieve the same thing which eastern meditation practices are trying to achieve — the purifying / purging / cleansing / emptying of our minds of selfish, fleshly thoughts to increase spirituality, decrease self - centeredness, transcend self and thereby achieve behaviour modification.

All these scriptures / Biblical teachings created a problem for me as over the years when I would experience psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena as a result of intense / deep prayer and meditation, I actually thought that God was trying to show me a sign or tell me something or he was leading me in a particular direction.

For the record, I wasn't a part of a charismatic religion when I experienced adverse psychological reactions to intense prayer and meditation.

His books include Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality and The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience.

In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42).

Slowing down our pace, and increasing our experience of the «now» through meditation, can enhance our awareness of the moments of uplift which are easily overlooked in our hectic lives and inner dullness.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

On the first night the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel of St. John is read, followed by a guided meditation in which the retreatants are invited to enter into the woman's experience of shame and despair.

They opted to end the year with five weeks of various prayer experiences: intense silent prayer and Taizé chants; the sharing of bread and the cup, combined with a spontaneous blessing of one another; Zen - type silence; and guided meditations on gospel scenes.

Through practices such as meditation and affirmative prayer (sometimes called «spiritual mind treatment»), transformation of the individualized mind, or «consciousness,» may be accomplished, along with a corresponding transformation of life experience.

But in the great age of prophecy, the eighth to sixth centuries, physical rneans seem to have been abandoned, and the whole ecstatic phenomenon was sublimated toward quieter mystical experiences induced by deep meditation.

From these he put together a theory of contemplative prayer: That as person becomes increasingly contemplative in his prayer, he will move from «meditation» (thinking about or imagining Our Lord, for example) to a place where meditation, affections, and thinking ceases and are replaced by what seems to be an experience of nothing, but is closer union with God.

It is not limited to just the re-emergence of historical religions, but also extended to the emergence of neo-religious movements like New Age spirituality and the surge of religiously based practices and experiences ranging from meditation to medicine.

The brain scans found that both experienced and novice meditators activated a network of attention - related regions of the brain during meditation.

An earlier study by some of the same researchers found that committed meditators experienced sustained changes in baseline brain function, meaning that they had changed the way their brains operated even outside of meditation.

What would it mean for me if I went through my entire life as a human being never experiencing the energies that are biochemically and electromagnetically produced during periods of prayer and meditation?

Some meditation schools seem to suggest that such an experience is the result of following the practices they teach.

From a Whiteheadian perspective, yogic meditation involves the silencing of symbolic reference, so that the two pure modes of perception are experienced directly.

First of all, not only that Whitehead's conceptuality can be used to analyze the processes of yogic meditation but that also it can make sense of Aurobindo's experiences of Nirvana and transcendent consciousness.

It is in that space (found in meditation or prayer) that we can experience God and the Angels and Ascended Masters (Jesus is only One of them.

We shall propose that from a Whiteheadian perspective yogic meditation involves the silencing of symbolic reference, so that the two pure modes of perception are experienced directly.

Seen in this way the other elements of spirituality meditation, participation in sacraments, worship — all become a source of strength for the liberative experiences.

Movements that seek to block out the effects of axiomatic constructions of reality through meditation, drugs, or religious experiences also sharpen their members» sensitivities to the nature of symbolism.