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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Dori on April 06, 2014, 03:23:39 PM
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Ohmmmmmm... :stoner:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024786760
Jesus Malverde (4,142 posts)
The mainstreaming of mindfulness meditation
Why is mindfulness so popular?
It appeals to people seeking an antidote to life in work-obsessed, tech-saturated, frantically busy Western culture. There is growing scientific evidence that mindfulness meditation has genuine health benefits — and can even alter the structure of the brain, so the technique is drawing some unlikely devotees.
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Star Member PuraVidaDreamin (3,631 posts)
1. May all beings....
Be happy, be free...
One part of me loves the thought of mindfulness meditation sneaking into the
Hearts and minds of those who work in the Pentagon, or Wall Street.
It is so sweetly subversive, how self inquiry can transform one into a kind and feeling being.
Then there is the other part of me that wonders how those places will
Try to mold it into some darker form to use for their own benefit.
^...I'm sure the fascist left has already figured that out
quaker bill (7,385 posts)
2. A practice unprogrammed Quaker Meetings share with Budhists.
I have been meditating this way for 30 years. We call it "centering down".
It does work on health in the ways reported. My last check up at the MD involved about a 25 minute wait in the exam room. I "centered down" and meditated until he arrived. I got the best physical readings I have had in many years.
Interesting...a Quaker on the Island???
marions ghost (16,759 posts)
3. we take in a lot of information
without time to process it...flush it out. Delete. Clear cache. Clear all.
The collective mind is hyper, crazed, frenetic these days--nowhere more so than in America where people talk over each other, over-schedule, spend enormous amounts of time consuming (not only stuff to buy but stuff to think about), and never ever, have a sense of "being caught up."
We are rarely what you'd call "present."
So I think this is a useful and generally accessible meditation practice as an anxiety and stress reliever.
The Dummy said the collectivists are crazed ............. :lmao:
Sanders (551 posts)
5. Thai people, 98% Buddhist, and daily practitioners of mindfulness, have to be the most content and
gentle people in the world, particularly in the Northern Lanna Kingdom....it is like living on another planet there. Watching people bear gifts to monks at 7 in the morning and hearing the gentle lecture received in return is plain awesome.
Hey, NO sky daddy talk allowed .... :rulez:
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This should be blaring, then . . . I made sure that I got a studio version, with the lyrics . . .
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9qmHfBN0M[/youtube]
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Instead of wasting time going "oooohhhhhmmmmmmm" doing nothing and accomplishing nothing, why don't they try praying for a little insight from God.