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Christmas Meditation

Let us join our hearts and minds together in the spirit of meditation and prayer. May these moments of quiet lead us to the heart of the season, which is peace. May we breathedeeply of peace in this quiet place, relax into its warmth, know we are safe here, and let us open our hearts […]

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Meditation: Christian Approach

Someone had shared with me his experience in practicing a non-Christian form of meditation. One interesting incident was the way he trained his mind to concentrate. He spent hours and hours fixing his gaze at a certain point at the wall. Unfortunately, he overdid it and almost suffered a breakdown. The role of a guide […]

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Study: Meditation May Help People With ADHD

Now there’s an ancient method being studied that seems to be helping people with ADHD, and also those who are just stressed to focus and relax. Distractions are even worse for people who are actually diagnosed with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder – a neurobehavioral condition, who already have difficulty in focusing, organizing, and regulating their […]

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Free yoga workouts fall into your laptop

So it seems America has a burgeoning Internet addiction. Really: I read it online. OK, we all know folks who log too many Web hours running background checks on their parents and uploading videos of their goldfish to YouTube, but there’s still some gold in them thar pixels. This week’s gem: Yoga Today, which delivers […]

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Yoga, meditation used to help prison inmates nationwide

Lama Chuck Stanford started visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas about six years ago.”Then word got around that I was doing this,” Stanford says, “and I started getting calls from prison chaplains around here telling me they had Buddhist inmates interested in getting groups going.” Now Stanford serves four prisons — the […]

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