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Research on meditation – Flow

Mindfulness meditation, anapanasati, and related techniques, are intended to train attention for the sake of provoking insight. A wider, more flexible attention span makes it easier to be aware of a situation, easier to be objective in emotionally or morally difficult situations, and easier to achieve a state of responsive, creative awareness or “flow”. Adapted [...]

Deuter – Biography

Born Georg Deuter in 1945 in post-war Germany in the town of Falkenhagen, he taught himself the guitar, flute, harmonica and “just about every instrument I could get my hands on,” though it wasn’t until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties that he decided to pursue a career in music. His first [...]

Dhammakaya meditation – Origins

Dhammakaya meditation was re-discovered by Phramongkolthepmuni on the full-moon night of September 1914 at Wat Bangkuvieng, Nonthaburi. This monk had practised several other forms of meditation popular in Thailand at the time including Phrasangavaranuwongse (Phra Acharn Eam) of Wat Rajasiddharam, Bangkok; Phra Kru Nyanavirat (Phra Acharn Po) of Wat Pho, Bangkok; Phra Acharn Singh of [...]

Maum meditation – Introduction

Maum Meditation In Korean ”maum” means the mind, soul or spirit. Maum Meditation was announced by Woo Myung in 1996 in Mt. Gaya. Maum meditation is a scientific program to help individuals discover the true, original nature of the universe. The founder Woo Myung was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award by the United Nations [...]

Research on meditation – Adverse effects

The following is an official statement from the government-run National Institute of Health available [http://nccam.nih.gov/health/meditation/overview.htm on this webpage] of theirs, Meditation is considered to be safe for healthy people. There have been rare reports that meditation could cause or worsen symptoms in people who have certain psychiatric problems, but this question has not been fully [...]

Sensual Meditation – Introduction

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Sensual Meditation, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Preksha meditation – Training and Centers

Every year an International Preksha Meditation Camp (IPMC) is organised under the auspicious guidance of Acharya Mahaprajna in India. It consists of comprehensive meditative techniques to bring about attitudinal change, behavioral modification and integrated development of personality. Some major permanent meditation centers are ”Tulsi Adhyatma Needam” Ladnun, ”Adhyatma Saadhana Kendra” Delhi, ”Preksha Vishva Bharati” Ahemedabad, [...]

Passage Meditation – Editions

In 2001, ”Publishers Weekly” reported that the book ”Meditation” (later republished in as ”Passage Meditation”), which provides the fullest description of the Passage Meditation program, had “sold more than 200,000 copies since its 1978 debut.” It has been published in three US editions: *Eknath Easwaran, ”Meditation: commonsense directions for an uncommon life”, Nilgiri Press (1978), [...]

New Age – History

Origins Historian Nevill Drury identified “four key precursors of the New Age”, who had set the way for many of its widely held precepts. The first of these was Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish scientist who after a religious experience devoted himself to Christian mysticism, believing that he could travel to Heaven and Hell and [...]

Aroshanti – Introduction

”Aroshanti” is the artist name used by music composer and instrumentalist Nick Truch, for his new age genre and therapy music. With his first commercial release in 2008 , Aroshanti has made a name for himself in a very short period of time. Working with MG Music, record label of platinum record selling world musician [...]

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