Posts Tagged ‘healing’
Meditation Can Be a Near-Death Experience

The experience of meditation is very similar to these reports of near-death experience. When we meditate we discover when our thoughts and feelings recede, our awareness continues. When our mind stops there is much more. As we go deeper inside, our awareness finds a great presence. Read more here…
Modern meditation: Why incense and crossed legs are strictly optional

“The benefits of meditation are defined by the user,” Andy explains. “For some, this might mean feeling less stressed or anxious, or sleeping better. Then there are those who practise meditation for altruistic reasons – they want to experience a greater empathy with others. You define meditation by how you choose to use it. Read more here…
Universal Music Day: Celebrate the sounds of music

While Music Day should certainly be celebrated every single day of the year, Universal Music Day “brings the world together to make music from our hearts and create a world of peace, love, justice and joy.” Read more here…
Prisoners get free yoga and meditation classes

The plan is to make qualified prison inmates meditation teachers. After qualifying to be a meditation teacher they can teach their fellow inmates. They will be provided all support required in teaching including assistance from our foundation’s teachers, simplified meditation techniques and music,’ he said. Read more here…
Mindfulness meditation offers way to slow down life

In the U.K., card-based fraud has hit its highest half-yearly level since 2009, and approximately £216 million of consumer cash was lost in the first six months of this year. Read more
Music Therapy: A Growing Trend

Music therapy is not only in hospitals, nursing homes and schools are also hiring music therapists to help increase the level of communication, as well as physical and emotional skills. Read more here…
Meditation alone doesn’t lower blood pressure: study

Mindfulness participants went to eight weekly group sessions and attended a day-long silent retreat. Each person was also asked to practice stress reduction for 45 minutes daily. This doesn’t mean that meditation is bad. It just simply doesn’t lower blood pressure,” senior author Dr. Sheldon Tobe of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, said. Read more here…
Meditation for wellbeing

Meditation is a way of cleaning the mind, washing it from within, so that you can be calmer, clearer and happier. Without meditation, the restlessness of the mind affects you on all levels and prevents you from connecting with the joy within you. Meditation frees you from tension and brings back your smile. Read more here…
The Best Yoga Moves For Any Situation

The promises of yoga are sometimes almost unbelievable: You’ll be fitter, slimmer, more energized! You’ll sleep better, boost your mood, lengthen muscles, improve flexibility and have a better sex life! Read more here…
Expert introduces mindfulness meditation to Montgomery Co. students, parents.

The benefit of mindfulness is so clear that it enables people to reduce stress and make decisions from a much more rational mindset,” says Brach, who is also an author and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Read more here…