Examples of meditation in the following topics:
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- Daily meditation can be helpful for a variety of reasons.
- Different meditation techniques include meditation of breath, devotional meditation, and relaxation meditation.
- Meditation of breath can be described as the most traditional form of meditation, in which a person sits comfortably and focuses on his or her breath entering and leaving the body.
- Meditation may also involve repeating a mantra and closing one's eyes.
- There are a variety of health benefits associated with meditation, and research continues to show more evidence of these benefits in studies involving meditation.
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- Trait anxiety can be managed well in advance through positive imagery and guided meditation.
- Guided meditation is a form of meditation where an individual is verbally guided into a beneficial state of consciousness, either by a person's live voice or by a recording of a voice.
- Meditation even has the power to change perspective by replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.
- One of the greatest aspects about guided meditation is that it is never without a purpose.
- Using guided meditation can help you work through your long-term fear of public speaking.
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- In India, Buddhist art flourished and even influenced the development of Hindu art, while Tibetan Buddhist art was created as a meditation practice.
- An important example of Tibetan meditation art is the sand mandala, made and used by monks for meditation.
- The creation of art has traditionally been considered both a meditation itself, as well as a method to produce an object to aid others in meditation.
- An example of Tibetan meditation art is the sand mandala, made by monks and used in meditation.
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- Jain sculpture is characterized most often by nude representations of saviors or deities in meditative postures.
- Jain iconography mostly has a sage in sitting or standing meditative posture without any clothes.
- Figures on various seals from the Indus Valley Civilisation bear similarity to jain images, nude and in a meditative posture.
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- All forms of prayer, meditation, and existential contemplation activate centers in the brain that are implicated in relaxation and peacefulness, which lowers levels of experienced stress.
- Forms of meditation, prayer, and contemplation can negate or abate present stress and provide resilience in the face of new stressors.
- Neuroscientists continue to study the effects of prayer and meditative states on the brain.
- A number of studies have demonstrated the positive effects of prayer, meditation, and contemplation on both mental and physical health.
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- The creation of art has traditionally been considered both itself a meditation, as well as a method to produce an object to aid others in meditation.
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- Mandalas may be used to focus attention during meditation, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, or to aid in trance induction.
- According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises. "
- In Hinduism, a yantra is a two- or three-dimensional geometric composition used in sadhanas, or meditative rituals.
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- Yoga in this sense often occurs in a class and may involve meditation, imagery, breath work, and music.
- Both the meditative and the exercise components of hatha yoga have been researched for both specific and non-specific health benefits.
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- This was all done with meditative concentration.
- The painting and accompanying poems capture both the playfulness and the perplexing nature of Zen buddhist Koans, which were supposed to aid the Zen practitioner in their meditation.
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- These zen gardens were designed to stimulate meditation.
- The second, Zazen-seki, is a flat meditation rock that is believed to radiate calm and silence.