A community portal about Meditation with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The term Meditation describes a variety of practices with a variety of goals. It usually involves turning the attention inward to the mind...
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A community portal about Meditation with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The term Meditation describes a variety of practices with a variety of goals. It usually involves turning the attention inward to the mind itself. Meditation is often recognized as a component of Eastern religions, having originated Vedic Hinduism. It has also become mainstream in Western culture. It encompasses any of a wide variety of spiritual practices which emphasize mental activity or quiescence. Meditation can be used for personal development, or to focus the mind on God. Many practice meditation in order to achieve peace, while others practice certain physical yogas in order to become healthier.
Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works Melinda Wenner Special to LiveScience.com If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works. Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to “let them go.” Psychologists have long believed that people who talk... Read Full Story
Image via WikipediaMindfulness meditation for ADHD: I am heading back to the hospital to deal with my mother and her situation, but meantime I want to put out something about ADHD and mindfulness meditation. I often tell students and patients that mindfulness meditation is, among other things, a process of training the attention. And that, accordingly, there is really good reason to believe that it might be an effective way to help people with attentional problems, including full-scale ADHD... Read Full Story
Image via WikipediaRecently Dr. Kalea Chapman, whose very good blog (Pasadena Therapist) is here, published an entry in which he provides 11 definitions of the term "mindfulness," which will certainly be a useful thing for those of us who are frequently being asked what it is we are talking about, when we talk about "mindfulness." Interestingly, his list of definitions does not include Ellen Langer's definition, nor any that explain the way that Ellen Langer uses the term. I find this... Read Full Story
Therapy for the Soul - Meditating Outside By Terri MacKinnon Does it really matter where you meditate? I believe that meditating outdoors can offer a new alternative and change to your life. The therapeutic benefits are hidden and waiting to be explored. I am one of those people that know personally how being outside meditating makes for not just a different type of meditation experience but in some ways even a more profound one. There are many good reasons for this. Many of us have... Read Full Story
An ancient practice that used to be reserved for ascetics who spent many hours a day in uncomfortable positions. Often coupled with Gregorian or Sanskrit chanting or some other obscure sacred language, strange yoga positions, or Zen Kohans, meditation has gradually joined the mainstream over the past 20 years.
Every fitness, spa or resort advertisement now features the obligatory picture of a thin, young woman sitting cross legged, eyes closed, palms up in some Indian mudra, chin toward the... Read Full Story
