Tag: meditation
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The reasons some people dont stick with a meditation practice (and why others do).
This paper looked at factors affecting meditation persistence in a population of 953 people in the United States (via online surveys). The authors framed “persistence” within two categories: the number of lifetime practice sessions and current practice frequency. The authors of the paper found that people who were first exposed to a meditation practice through…
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Its official: meditation is good shit
This study just published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) examined the long-term effects of a regular mediation practice on the gut microbiome structure. The authors performed gene sequencing on fecal samples of 37 Tibetan Buddhist monks comparing them with those of 19 non-meditating local residents. The gut microbiota can influence the brain and profoundly…
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Buddha beak
Sitting at dawn. A magpie calldeepens the silence. Most days I am meditating around six-thirty am. At this time our local magpies are warming up to their morning carolling. I usually open the window to welcome in the song. It does not disturb me. Somehow it only serves to enhance the silence of my sitting.…
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a few lines.
three linesis often twotoo many Hello friends. Its been a while. To be honest, I just have not had much to say. And now I’m going to try to ease back in to some regular posting.Not too much. Less is more.Just a photo from my day, and a few lines and maybe a paragraph to…
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