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Guided Slow Yoga Meditation
Yoga + Meditation = True! Yoga and meditation go hand in hand. There is no doubt about that (*). Yoga means to come together and make whole, and is a system of exercises for mental and physical health. “What?! Yoga is not only about impossible poses and yoga pants?” – Some random guy Yoga incorporates meditation…
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Meditation Quote 101: “Mindful and creative, a child [..] simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.” – Arnaud Desjardins
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Play! ..you still sitting here reading this? Ok, feel free to read the whole post, but please promise me one thing? After you’ve read this: Play! Why? Ask a child, and I’m sure they’ll tell you that playing is the best way to enjoy the moment. With adulthood often comes a magnitude of responsibilities, seriousness,…
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Heartbeat Meditation Music
Lub dub! Lub dub! Lub dub… Wonder what those words are meant to be? Heartbeat sounds! The medical description for the heartbeat sound is “lub dub”. Lub describing the “first heart sound” (the closing of the AV valves), and dub (or dup) describing the “second heart sound” (the closing of the semilunar valves). Now you know what sounds…
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Mindfulness Helps Nurses Cope
Nursing is stressful! If you’ve ever been at a hospital you might have noticed how busy the nurses can be, and how adapt they need to be at multitasking. Which might explain why this profession is so prone to sickness, both mentally and physically. David Templeton from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: Caring for patients can…
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Flow And Meditation
Ever felt completely absorbed by what you were doing? I am sure we all have had such an experience of being “in the flow”. What a great place to be. In fact, a man named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has made a career out of studying and researching this phenomenon. You can learn more about his work,…
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Calmness Or Stress = Your Choice
After 3 hours work, the dessert you were making ended up a disaster. What do you do? Faced with this situation, Estalyn Walcoff did the right thing. She didn’t give in to the stress of the situation, and freak out. Instead she threw the failure in the trash, drove to the store, and bought all the…
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Guided Meditation “The Seat”
This wooden bench – on a field – is waiting for you… Join as we revisit “The Honest Guys”, and their fabulous YouTube Channel. We’ve previously featured guided meditations from them, in these posts: Guided Meditation, Blissful Deep Relaxation Take Five With This Guided Meditation Here is another great guided meditation from our friends, called…
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Sacred Om Meditation Music
Did you know that the world was created by “om”? Much like the greeting “Namaste”, we often come across the word “om” or “aum”. It is commonly used as a mantra (a word/phrase repeated verbally or in our mind) for meditation. But do you know what the word “om” actually means? One meaning of the word is (see…
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Hurray, Meditation Quote 100!
Hurray! We’ve reached 100 quotes. I’d say that calls for a celebration.. and a gift! And what better way to celebrate than to share one of my all time favorite meditation quotes with you (I’ll get to the gift in just a minute): “Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you — silence,…
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Mindfulness Talk By Thich Nhat Hanh
Ever wanted to learn mindfulness directly from and old and wise monk? You can! And you don’t even have to move an inch to do so. Here is a mindfulness talk that was held in 2011 by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh. Following is the YouTube description of…