Insight Timer is an app for meditation and mindfulness practice available for iOS and Android.
The National AIDS Memorial Grove offers consoling shade, while the stand of old-growth redwoods at Strybing Arboretum is ideal for meditation before a fierce match at the Lawn Bowling Club.
They had travelled to Mumbai for a meditation retreat from the United States and were killed as they dined at the Oberoi Hotel.
Among its amenities, a yoga room provides communal space for exercise and meditation, while a restaurant, bar and cafe serve up gourmet food for hotel guests and Bedford residents alike.
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Of these, about 500 have been clinical trials testing meditation for various ailments, but only about 40 trials have been long-term studies.
Dr. Doraiswamy says he recommends meditation for people with depression, panic or anxiety disorders, ongoing stress, or for general health maintenance of brain alertness and cardiovascular health.
Vipassana is an ancient Buddhist way of meditation for self-awakening.
Google has even set up specific meditation rooms for its executives.
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These findings may suggest that for people who practice meditation or prayer, the focus becomes less on the self as a distinct entity from the external world, and more on connection between the two.
Naomi and Alan Scherr had come to Mumbai with a travel group for a high-tech meditation retreat with the Synchronicity Foundation, she said.
Cardinal Ravasi was chosen by the Pope to lead a six-day traditional Lenten retreat inside the Apostolic Palace during which the Pope each year cancels all public engagements and remains closeted for a period of spiritual meditation among his closest advisers.
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And Denise Riley was awarded the prize for best single poem for A Part Song, a meditation on the loss of her son in 2008.
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Watching them hop from branch to branch as they get their fill and move out of the way for others to feed may not be meditation, per se, but it's something similar -- a reminder that the world can offer peace and stillness, even in the midst of mayhem.
For me, exercising is a form of meditation because it regulates and deepens my breathing, and concentrating on moves or repetition helps me clear my mind.
What could have been merely a silly send-up manages to be a meditation on marriage and a metaphor for the fragility of fortunes, big and small.
Spotlight Six Software, the one person company that makes Insight Timer, clearly thinks that these are tools, and that an app that makes meditation more convenient does a service for humanity.
In the United States, a Catholic woman might attend a Roman parish, work for Catholic Charities, serve as an independent Catholic priest, officiate weddings for divorced Romans on weekends and do Buddhist meditation every morning, too.
After all, as Thorin Klosowki recently wrote for Lifehacker, there have been studies showing that meditation can improve focus and productivity, increase overall brain power, and decrease stress and anxiety.
In America meditation was judged to be just the tonic for a variety of people ranging from underperforming executives to recidivist prisoners.
More chronic sufferers of lost love could opt for the Global Vipassana Pagoda, a massive dome-shaped meditation hall on the outskirts of Mumbai that can house more than 8, 000 people.
Jogging and other aerobic exercises, different types of meditation, prayer, yoga and tai chi are great for many people but when arbitrarily imposed on others, prove dull, boring and stressful.
Similarly, the University of California and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies are soon expecting to show the benefits that shamatha meditation, a Buddhist practice, might have on people who are participating in three-month long meditation retreats at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado.
There will always be a (small, clearly defined) market for spas that help you lose ten pounds in a week or mandate meditation, solitude or ten-mile hikes at dawn.
An almost religious meditation on the persistence of guilt and memory, and the desire for forgiveness, the drama uses a rather thin plot to tread across established O'Neill themes.
Afternoon naps may not come naturally, but meditation, yoga, and scheduling time to reflect are all quality cures for the non-stop, doer personality.
Although all this high-end bathing -- not to mention an onboard sushi chef (who Larson says is "the best in Scandinavia") -- account for much of the boat's allure, the 40-year-old meditation enthusiast believes there's something a little more transcendental about the whole experience.
For Pinault, the silver brush strokes evoke mountains, and he sees the painting as a meditation.
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