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Energy follows imagery so visualize peace, love, joy, kindness and compassion. - Victor M. Parachin
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“My father was a violent and paranoid man. He beat my mother, and mistreated his children in terrible ways. When my father pulled up to the house after a day of work, we wouldn’t know whether he’d be Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde. He was a brilliant scientist, but he had so much difficulty that he kept getting fired, or he would quit. There was often little money. We moved every year or so. I attended fourteen different schools. So when I heard about the Buddhist teachings on suffering and the end of suffering, certainly that was interesting.” - Jack Kornfield, author, meditation teacher and founder of Insight Meditation Center, Barre, MA.
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If you have an unpleasant sitting, that is all it is, an unpleasant sitting. You don't have to turn that into a problem. - Eric K. Van Horn
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Two qualities that will serve you best in meditation are patience and persistence. Persistence is the ability to continue relentlessly, whether or not things appear to be going well. Patience is thee ability to have compassion for yourself, and to trust the process, to let it unfold. - Eric K. Van Horn
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“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
-- Jean de La Fontaine
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
-- Jean de La Fontaine
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In France, I offer the children walking meditation with only two words. When they breathe in they say, “Oui. Oui.” (Yes, Yes) And when they breathe out they say, “Merci. Merci.” (Thank you, thank you) They are learning to say yes to the earth, to the sky, to the trees. And learning to say thanks to life.
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The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. - George Orwell
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Equanimity brings calmness and balance to moments of joy as well as difficulty. It protects us from an emotional overreaction, allows us to rest in a bigger perspective, and contains a basic trust in the course of things. - Christiane Wolf
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If you are forgetful or make mistakes when in a hurry or make a blunder while multi-tasking, a recent study from Michigan State University -- the largest of its kind to-date -- found that meditation could help you to become less error prone.
The research, published in Brain Sciences, involved more than 200 participants who were taught a meditation and then tested to determine how they detect and respond to errors. The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography, or EEG. Then, they completed a computerized distraction test.
"The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of neural activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses," said "Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author. "A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators."
The research, published in Brain Sciences, involved more than 200 participants who were taught a meditation and then tested to determine how they detect and respond to errors. The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography, or EEG. Then, they completed a computerized distraction test.
"The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of neural activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses," said "Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author. "A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators."
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Of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little White a**es are the only ones that matter? No! - Doily Parton