(n.) The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.
(n.) Thought; -- without regard to kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(2) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(3) A total of 48 subjects participated in a relaxation experiment to determine whether frontalis muscle EMG biofeedback, Transcendental Meditation, and meditation (Benson technique) produced decreased muscle tension and concomitant changes in locus of control.
(4) No clear evidence was thus obtained that any of the stress, or stress-related, hormones were suppressed during or after meditation in the particular setting examined.
(5) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(6) The highly significant increase of 5-HIAA (5-hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid) in Transcendental Meditation technique suggests systemic serotonin as "rest and fulfillment hormone" of deactivation-relaxation.
(7) Meditation and aerobic activity were associated with a perception of increased ability to cope and a generally positive feeling about the value of exercise and meditation in their lives.
(8) In the meditation hall, daddy longlegs dropped from the ceiling, feeding my anxiety.
(9) Ratings from 84 students of selected attitudes before a brief introduction to a method of meditation and responses afterward correlated moderately, suggesting those favoring personal growth will favor meditation.
(10) The data indicated that certain effects attributed to the practice of Transcendental Meditation (such as increased alertness and maintenance of attention, greater consistency and less anxiety) are not manifested in terms of learning and performance of a novel perceptual-motor skill.
(11) Serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) levels were measured in 270 men and 153 women who were experienced practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs, mental techniques practiced twice daily, sitting quietly with the eyes closed.
(12) To assess the effects of exercise and meditation on alcohol consumption in social drinkers, 60 male students, between the ages of 21 and 30, all classified as heavy social drinkers, were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: exercise (running), meditation, and a no-treatment control group.
(13) Contact was made with a ‘mystical-religious’ group that used the gas to accelerate arriving at their transcendental-meditative state of choice.” It increased in popularity with the rise of festival culture – it’s been a mainstay of Glastonbury’s stone circle and squat parties in Bristol and south London for at least a decade – but the equipment needed to dispense it remained relatively expensive.
(14) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(15) Two of the three meditational procedure subjects also showed an increase in subjective tension as measured by the anxiety lever.
(16) The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.
(17) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(18) These observations indicate that neither stress nor operation of other usual homeostatic control mechanisms are responsible for elevated for AVP in the meditators.
(19) At the end of 1971 Drake wrote some new songs in Tanworth, but they constituted a clean break from the second- and third-person meditations of the previous two albums.
(20) The therapy would appear to be improved by the inclusion of mental relaxation, concentration, meditation, and mind-blanking exercises for mental control.
Yoga
Definition:
(n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Photograph: Rex Features 'Voga' Vogueing + yoga, apparently.
(3) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(5) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(6) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(7) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(8) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(9) Within Jakarta itself the BRT is quite good,” says Yoga.
(10) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(11) His comments won him fans described as “Medvedev’s Girls”, who performed exercises on Red Square to promote yoga.
(12) This study examines the lifestyle and social structure of a yoga ashram and describes how they facilitate processes where residents learn to release and prevent stress in their lives.
(13) Millions of Indians tune in every day to watch Ramdev perform yoga exercises on his popular TV show.
(14) A review of the clinical evidence available indicates that yoga practice has proven most effective with a wide range of psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders.
(15) It’s not a strange side effect of Brexit malaise – it’s World Yoga Day.
(16) Thus, a combined practice of yoga seems to be beneficial on respiratory efficiency.
(17) Edward likes … yoga bag, around £20, from Brogamats .
(18) Many Muslim scholars say that yoga is against the fundamental tenets of Islam – to pray to the sun, for example,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, a Muslim member of parliament.
(19) I suggest to the swami that her form of yoga is a religion, but she rejects the term.
(20) The 27-year-old described how the couple had a quiet evening and retired to his bedroom, where he spoke to his cousin on the phone and she did yoga.