Rectangular Sunlight/Carpet Fuzz – meditation for acoustic guitar – Video
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Rectangular Sunlight/Carpet Fuzz - meditation for acoustic guitar
Rectangular Sunlight/Carpet Fuzz A short musical meditation on sunlight. In the original CD version from RIVER FLOW, the medley was in ABA #39;form #39; with Rectangular Sunlight first and last...
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1 Hour Relaxing of Nature Sounds, Classical music, Wind, Winter, Relaxation and Meditation – Video
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1 Hour Relaxing of Nature Sounds, Classical music, Wind, Winter, Relaxation and Meditation
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Pre-Tour Meditation – Lower Earley Salvation Army – Video
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Longterm meditation tied to less brain loss
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(MENAFN - Arab Times) NEW YORK Feb 17 (RTRS): Meditation over many years is tied to smaller agerelated decreases in brain volume according to a new study. People who reported meditating for an average of 20 years had higher brain volumes than the average person researchers report in Frontiers in Psychology.
While it's known that the volume of a brain's gray matter decreases as a person ages the study's senior author told Reuters Health that the team of researchers expected to see more gray matter in certain regions of the brain among long-term meditators. 'But we see that this effect is really widespread throughout the brain' said Dr Florian Kurth a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Los Angeles Brain Mapping Center. Kurth and his colleagues write that they can't say meditation caused its practitioners to lose less brain volume however. Other habits of long-term meditators may also influence brain volume. Nearly 18 million adults and 1 million children practiced meditation in the US in 2012 according to a survey on complementary medicine from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Though meditative techniques have roots in Eastern religious and spiritual traditions Americans today often meditate outside of religious settings according to the survey. Prior studies found that meditation can improve attention memory verbal fluency executive function and creativity Kurth and his colleagues write. For the new study the researchers compared the brain scans of 50 long-term meditators to those of 50 men and women from the general population. The participants ranged in age from 24 to 77 years.
The meditators reported being involved in the practice for four to 46 years. Overall the volume of gray matter shown on the brain scans decreased as the age of the participants increased. But the meditators' brains appeared better preserved than average people of the same age. Moreover the researchers were surprised to find less age-related gray matter loss throughout the brains of meditators. Los Angeles singer-songwriter Julianna Raye who began meditating 20 years ago was amazed at what she saw when she looked at her brain scan compared to a scan of another 48-year-old woman from the general population. 'The difference was definitely discernible' she said. 'It made me think of flossing your teeth so you don't get gingivitis. You exercise your brain and you can see the results.'
The study prompted Kurth to want to return to his own abandoned meditation practice. 'This study says it's basically worthwhile to think about meditation' he said. Dr Madhav Goyal told Reuters Health that the new study failed to convince him that he could prescribe meditation as an elixir to prevent brain loss. 'There's still a lot of research that needs to be done' said Goyal who practices meditation and studies it as a professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. The UCLA researchers found insignificant results when they performed the most conservative statistical analysis on their findings he said. Goyal would have liked the study to compare skill levels between meditators and non-meditators. He also questioned what kind of meditation and whether it was indeed meditation the meditators were doing.
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The smartphone can be a wicked tool for distraction and complication. But it doesnt have to be. Your smartphone actually can be an agent of calm, relaxation and mindfulness.
The app thats helped me relax the most is Calm by Calm.com, which is available free a nice, relaxing price for both iOS and Android. This app contains a number of guided meditation sessions that last from just a couple of minutes up to about 20 minutes. The idea is to use the app once a day at the same time.
Some apps make novice meditators leery because they weave in too much mystical talk. But Calm focuses on simple directions like, Concentrate on your body. Each meditation track is spoken in a calming voice and contains straightforward advice in cheerful tones. Its not so much, Do this, do that. Its more, Think about sitting somewhere where your back is supported well.
The sounds for the meditation tracks are calming, too, and you can choose which you prefer, like gentle waves, rain in a forest or relaxing music.
The app is beautiful to look at and easy to use, thanks to clear instructions and menus. It also contains a fair amount of free meditation content. But if you pay to upgrade to the pro version, you get meditation programs aimed at increasing confidence, creativity and other traits, in addition to calmness. And more content is added regularly. The pro version costs about $10 a year, though you can buy shorter subscriptions.
Headspace, also free for iOS and Android, is a similar app that is even simpler and more refined than Calms app. This app also is about guided meditation for short intervals, about 10 minutes per session, and it, too, uses refreshingly plain words instead of jargon in its sessions.
The app can provide reminders to turn it on at set daily intervals, and the sessions are straightforward: a sequence of meditations that talk you through different mindfulness habits over a 10-day period. You even get rewards for sticking to your habits in the form of cute little animations. And it can show some simple analytics about your performance the hope being that you will be inspired to stick to it.
After the first 10 sessions, more meditation sessions are available to download, with different lengths and different goals, like reducing stress, but only for subscribers. The subscription is $13 a month or $95 a year which may be the most stressful aspect of the app. But at least the first 10 sessions are free.
Another way to find a moment of calm in a busy day is to take 10 minutes for yourself and focus on positive things in your life, and thats what the Happier app is all about. Free for Android and iOS, Happier is part gratitude journal, part mindfulness app, part support community. It has sections to make notes and add images about things for which you are grateful. Or you can listen to short courses that teach about gratitude and happiness habits. The community aspect is a built-in social network where other users can comment in a supportive way on your progress.
The app is bright, friendly and easy to use. The core app is free, but you have to pay to get access to some of the guided meditation courses, like More Calm, Less Stress. Prices vary from $5 to $25.
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Marks & Spensers Vegan Food Haul – Video
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What I Eat In A Day as a High Carb Vegan! 15 – Video
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What I Eat In A Day as a High Carb Vegan! 15
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Vegan Lemon Cookies So Good, You Won’t Believe They Lack Butter – Video
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Vegan Lemon Cookies So Good, You Won #39;t Believe They Lack Butter
These vegan lemon cookies are so good, you won #39;t believe they #39;re both gluten free and lack butter! Chef Erin McKenna has earned legions of fans creating gluten-free and vegan desserts at her...
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