When I was growing up, my aunt Zlota from Chicago used to ask for the time of day by saying, “How much is the clock?” This must have been a literal translation from Yiddish or Russian. The memory of her and this lovely expression remains with me today. Adam Frank is a professor and an […]
Archives for May 2012
Manage Stress with Meditation Practices
May 26, 2012 by
Being stressed out can cause real problems in your professional life as well as your personal life. Stress can influence you health in harmful ways. Studies at Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions have shown that stress can be related to hair loss, depression and even cardiovascular disease. Researchers are claiming that stress can be […]
Meditation as Medicine
May 24, 2012 by
Dr. Robert Stahl has founded Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses in medical centers around the San Francisco Bay Area. He recently gave a Tech Talk at Google about meditation as medicine in relationship to MBSR. As you can imagine, the lecture was very well attended. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction was founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn […]
Quick Quote from Mahatma Gandhi
May 24, 2012 by
I just came across this wonderful quote from Mahatma Gandhi Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever ~ Mahatma Gandhi Did you like this quote? Please click the like button below, so lots of people on Facebook will see it, and there will be more smiles […]
The Dalai Lama Wins the Templeton Prize and Gives It Away!
May 22, 2012 by
Sir John Templeton founded the Templeton Prize forty years ago to honor “entrepreneurs of the spirit”. The prize is worth about $1.7 million and is the largest prize given to an individual. This year, the Dalai Lama wins the Templeton Prize and gives it away! He received the prize for progress in religion. $200,000 of […]
Governments Need Mindfulness – Not Enemies
May 22, 2012 by
You may be wondering why a website devoted to meditation practices would have something about how governments need mindfulness – not enemies. Read on and you will find out how and why. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has been a peace activist in the world since 1964. At that time, his goal was to put […]
Meditation Practices Develop Wisdom
May 20, 2012 by
Here is another quote from the email list of Lama Surya Das. It appeared also on the Huffington Post and the theme of the posting was that meditation practices develop wisdom. When I was 13 years old, I had a bar mitzvah in my family Jewish tradition. About the only thing I remember from my […]
Loving Kindness Meditation Jewish Style
May 18, 2012 by
Laura Silver writes on TabletMag.com about a group of Jews doing meditation practices. One of their practices is loving kindness meditation Jewish style called chesed meditation. Loving kindness is the translation of chesed from the Hebrew. In Buddhist meditation practices, loving kindness meditation is known as metta practice. There will be other posts for you […]
Meditation Practices To Slow Down
May 18, 2012 by
Esther Teule teaches meditation practices to slow down. She is a yoga teacher. This video teaches us to become aware of our bodies and land in them. She teaches us to relax into it. Then she teaches us to take a deep breath and then breathe out – letting it all go. Relax you shoulders, […]
Scientific Support for Meditation Practices
May 17, 2012 by
More scientific support for meditation practices was presented in the New York Times earlier this month. Several studies were cited in the article. The study with the most promising results (IMHO) revealed that long-term meditators “had greater gyrification — a term that describes the folding of the cerebral cortex, the outermost part of the brain.” […]
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