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What is meditation? What is mindfulness meditation
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What is Meditation?

When someone says ”I am meditating”, this can mean a lot of different things to different people. Some people, for example, believe they are meditating when they go running, others believe the same when they are dancing to trance at a…
Giacomo Leopardi

L’INFINITO Giacomo Leopardi

"Always dear to me was this solitary hill and this hedge, which, for its part, excludes most of the horizon. But sitting and gazing at such endless spaces that stretch with their profound and serene silences, my wandering thoughts nearly…
thoughts in meditation

How to Approach Thoughts in Meditation?

Sometimes people think that the goal of meditation is to stop thinking. Even if that happens sometimes, that is not the point of meditation. The point of mindfulness meditation is to cultivate a friendly, non-aggressive attitude toward whatever…
restorative yoga

Restorative yoga – how does it work?

We humans are neurologically wired to respond to danger with the “fight-or-fight” response: increasing heart rate, blood pressure, mental alertness and muscle tension, and at the same time slowing or shutting down systems of digestion,…