Meditations - Healing Meditations and Visualizations Collection of guided meditation and visualizations to bring about calmness, serenity, healing, and balance. Simple Visualization Exercises Park Bench Meditation If you are a people watcher like I am then this type of meditation will come easily to you. Breakthrough The focus of this guided meditation is in relation to rebirthing, or breaking through the physical barrier to reclaim our personal power. Drumming Meditation Take five minutes to do this pre-drumming visualization to relax you and to draw energies to begin your meditative drumming session. Bathing Your Chakras Visualization Of course you take a bath or shower everyday to keep yourself clean and presentable. Rose Quartz Meditation - Clearing the Heart Chakra Clearing of the heart chakra will improve the interaction of all the other centers. Metta Practice Metta practice is a meditative practice of Buddhist tradition. Power of the Heart Meditation Kirtan Kriya Kirtan Kriya is a meditation chant exercise originating from Kundalini Yoga.
ייעוץ לדעה שנייה של רופאים How to Meditate: 10 Important Tips Why meditate? On one level, meditation is a tool. It can help combat stress, fosters physical health, helps with chronic pain, can make you sleep better, feel happier, be more peaceful, as well as be more present. But on a deeper level, meditation is a doorway into the unknown. It can help us get a sense of the mystery of who we are. When you start meditating, you’ll notice how unruly the mind is. I remember being quite shocked by this! At first, my mind was all over the place. Profound thoughts about my past or future jostled with mundane thought clips about what groceries I needed to buy. It was like sitting in a crazy cinema! So, if you’re starting out with meditation, please don’t beat yourself up about your wild mind. Here are some simple tips on how to meditate.. 1. Whether you sit on a chair or cross-legged on the floor, make sure that your spine is upright with head up. 2. Try and keep you eyes open. 2. In ordinary consciousness we are hardly ever present. Attention comes from nowhere.
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Zazen Instructions | Zen Mountain Monastery To receive beginning instruction in zazen at the Monastery, come to the Sunday Morning Program or Wednesday Evening Zazen. All of our weekend retreats, including the Introduction to Zen Training Weekend, also include beginning instruction for newcomers. Zazen is the form of meditation at the very heart of Zen practice. We tend to see body, breath, and mind separately, but in zazen they come together as one reality. Burmese Position There are several different leg positions that are possible while seated cross-legged. Half Lotus Position Another position is the half lotus, where the left foot is placed up onto the right thigh and the right leg is tucked under. Full Lotus Position By far the most stable of all the positions is the full lotus, where each foot is placed up on the opposite thigh. Seiza Position There is also the seiza position. Chair Position Finally, it’s fine to sit in a chair. During zazen, breathe through your nose and keep your mouth closed. Practicing the Breath
Some fireflies flash in sync to woo mates U.S. scientists have shed light on the mystery of why the males of some species of firefly flash in unison and in a pattern: It's to help females identify them as suitable mates. University of Connecticut professor of physiology and neurobiology Andrew Moiseff — who is not an entomologist but admits to being fascinated by fireflies since he was a student — teamed up with Georgia Southern University biology professor Jonathan Copeland to study why some fireflies flash in sync. The results of their study, in which they flashed light-emitting diodes both in a pattern and randomly at female fireflies in a lab setting, suggest that synchronous flashing allows the female fireflies to recognize suitable mates. Moiseff and Copeland began studying fireflies from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee after a naturalist from the southern state told one of them that the fireflies at her summer cabin in the park flashed synchronously.
Les étonnantes vertus de la méditation | Sciences | ARTE Comment (re)voir ce programme Diffusion : samedi 23 septembre à 22h40 Disponible en direct : oui En ligne du 21 septembre au 13 octobre 2017 La méditation est devenue un nouveau champ de recherche pour les scientifiques. Psychiatres, neurologues et biologistes moléculaires s'intéressent de plus en plus aux effets bénéfiques de la méditation sur le fonctionnement de notre cerveau et de notre organisme. Des liens complexes Véritable gymnastique cérébrale, la méditation réduirait les effets toxiques engendrés par les hormones du stress et aurait ainsi une action bénéfique sur les inflammations chroniques, les défenses immunitaires ou la dégradation de nos cellules. Générique Réalisation : Benoît Laborde Pays :FranceAnnée :2017Origine :ARTE F
Firefly.org | Firefly & Lightning Bug Facts, Pictures, Information About Firefly Insect Disappearance Why Do Fireflies Glow? From Mother Nature Network's Chanie Kirschner: It seems kind of magical, doesn’t it? As summer draws nearer and the days grow longer, it’s only natural to start daydreaming of summer barbecues, picnics and downtime. And the glow of a firefly is a requisite symbol of the lazy, hazy days and nights of summer. You see, fireflies contain a chemical in their abdomen called luciferin. So why do fireflies glow in the first place? Another reason fireflies glow (and this one not quite as romantic) is to lure prey. The final reason that fireflies glow is to deter predators. There you have it, folks. Also on HuffPost: