Browsing Tag: Meditation

Study Shows Meditation Changes Brain Structure in Just 8 Weeks

Participants in an 8 week meditation class experienced structural brain changes including increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection.
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Is Meditation Escapism or Experience?

Ask yourself a question. Do you feel you need to meditate or should you meditate daily?
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"Green" Buddhas for Babies

Meditation sparks idea for sustainable children's children line.
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Meditation improves the immune system, research shows

The practice - an essential part of Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions - has entered the mainstream as people try to find ways to combat stress and improve their quality of life.
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How Yoga Saved My Life

The look on the doctor’s face told me volumes—far more than he probably intended.
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Guruka Singh in London next week and teaching at the Sikh Retreat

Guruka Singh will be in London 20th August - 3rd September to be with the UK Sangat and he will be teaching at the 2011 Sikh Retreat as well.
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Why Aging Ain't No Myth

Just ask someone who has started to age if it's a myth or not. In my experience they'll say "No, it's real."
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Meditation – sound mind and sound body

“Meditation is one process through which you can resolve conflict and misfortune, rather than playing it through in real life." “An ounce of practice is worth tons of theory” - Swami Vishnu Devananda.
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Meditators can do Noise Canceling, Without Headphones

Studies have found that meditation helps prevent the recurrence of depression, perhaps by producing changes in parts of the brain associated with learning and anxiety. A new study suggests that meditation may modulate brain waves called alpha rhythms, which help regulate the transmission of sensory input from the surrounding environment.
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Finding gems of wisdom through meditation

I pick up my Nit Nem and begin reading/reciting Japji Sahib, the Sikh morning prayer, which includes the line, “The gems, the jewels, the rubies, are in the mind..."
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