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meditation

6 Tips for People Who Don’t Have Time to Meditate – PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

August 31, 2010

Interested in beginning meditation but don’t know where to start? The good news is that all you need is 5-10 minutes a day to get started.
Are you thinking to yourself, ‘Ten minutes, I don’t have an extra ten minutes a day! My life is already jam packed with work, family, social obligations, [...]

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Observations on Multitasking

August 31, 2010

Fellow yogi and teacher Jamie Elmer shares her observations on multitasking. She notes that multitasking helps the ego feel more important. “Look at how important I am. I have a million things to do all at once,” the ego thinks. But in reality when we instead have single pointed focus, we feel calmer and are [...]

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Evolution of the Emergency Room – Breathing Techniques for Pain Management

April 19, 2010

This past weekend I had to visit the emergency room at our local hospital. (Thank goodness, we’re all okay.) Upon leaving, I was given a 7-page printout of Discharge Instructions.  In addition to a summary of the prescriptions and their usage, the packet included a lengthy Pain Management section which included the breathing and visualization [...]

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How do you define meditation?

April 5, 2010

Today on the Musings blog (a blog about mind, art, productivity and more), Koroush Dini MD, talks about how he defines meditation. He tries to define it simply ~ in 25 words or less ~ as:
Meditation is a regularly practiced focus on a pre-defined object.
The object could be a mantra, a physical object, the breath, [...]

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Are You Practicing the Law of Love?

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New yogis (or those who are “yoga curious”) often wonder if Yoga is a religion. It is not. Regardless of your personal belief system, you can practice yoga. Yoga teachers need to understand this so that they can include people from all backgrounds and belief systems. If you attend a class where the teacher says [...]

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