meditation

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

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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, and I’m [...]

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How do you define meditation?

by darla 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, [...]

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How to Avoid Practicing Yoga

Thumbnail image for How to Avoid Practicing Yoga by darla December 2, 2009

It’s already December 2nd and so far I have practiced yoga zero times, to be honest, in the last 3 weeks. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. My parents were in town for Thanksgiving for a week and just left yesterday. But that’s not why I didn’t practice yoga. There was plenty of down time while they [...]

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Doctor and Patient – How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors – NYTimes.com

Thumbnail image for Doctor and Patient – How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors – NYTimes.com by darla October 18, 2009

I found this article about mindfulness in the New York Times interesting. It talks about more and more physicians becoming disenchanted with their profession because of the many distractions on the job: cell phones, email, text messages, etc. These distractions take away from the joy of the work. I think this is a problem not [...]

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Another Reason I Love Venice: Urban Meditation Timelapse

Thumbnail image for Another Reason I Love Venice: Urban Meditation Timelapse by darla August 19, 2009

Introducing a taste of The Urban Yogi Movement. Time lapse meets Group “Urban” Meditation. Filmed at Venice Beach Boardwalk, Los Angeles CA July 2009. Facilitated by Siri Shiva Singh. Directed, Photographed, and Edited by Ashley T. Hughes.

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