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Introducing Meditation to Biology Students: What Did We Get From It?
Everything started with an invitation from a friend, a biology teacher at UFMG University, the Federal University of my state in Brazil.
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Meditation Impacts Personal Performance
Practising meditation on a regular basis has the power to transform your life in all its dimensions. Since all aspects of life are interlinked, it will become more obvious how improving one will impact the others aspects of your life: becoming a better individual equals becoming a more empowering friend, a more determined professional, a more tolerant citizen, etc.
The Gift of Gratitude for Peace Revolution’s Trip to Grenade
It was a deep honour to have Ilse and Raku from Peace Revolution visit our community and share with us ways to manage stress through guided meditation. I believe many of…
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Meditation and the Art of Sharing
“Happiness is real only when shared,” Christopher McCandless “Into the Wild”
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Meditation Dissipates Fear
I have many fears. Especially when it comes to myself. I’ve always been quite an insecure person and have never trusted myself enough.
Body Scan Meditation as Relaxation Technique
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of relaxation? Many of us might imagine a cosy evening in front of the TV or a Sunday afternoon reading a book. Why is relaxation important?
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Meditation and Anger Management
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb
When do you usually get angry? Is it when things don’t go as expected? What if you had no previous expectations? Could this be a possibility? Does getting angry change the situation in any way?
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Keep Calm and Be Happy
I have always been a very vehement person. That’s why I turn normal conversations into arguments very often. In my mind I’m not arguing, of course. Let’s say that I’m just expressing my thoughts in a very passionate way… And if I don’t have a personal opinion to state, then I enjoy contradicting people’s opinions because I always feel I must play the devil’s advocate.
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Can’t Stay Away? Try to Meditate to Cut Cravings!
You know it is not good for you. You promised yourself that this will be the last time. And still, there is always a next time… Addiction might sound like a harsh word. You might not even be willing to admit that you have an addictive relation to it. Still, each of us experienced this strong need towards something that might not be very useful either for our health, mental and physical integrity nor for our personal growth.
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A Calm Mind: How Mediation Reduces Our Tendency To Get Angry
Anger is often a reflection of our disagreement with either our circumstances, or opinion and behavior of others. It reflects our inability to connect with our larger real nature, which remains ‘complete’ without any need for a change, without an opinion or need for one, beyond good and evil, right and wrong, and is actually pure-unadulterated-love.
