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Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique or combination of techniques to train attention and awareness and detach from "discursive, ruminating thought", achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not intending to analyze the effects, to judge its outcomes, or to create any expectation with regard to the…

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related to Taoism · 18
Meditation → Asia, Buddhism, Chinese, Chinese Buddhism, Cun, Dao, Ding, Guan, It, Lingbao Schools, Livia Kohn, Tang, Taoist, Taoist Shangqing, Tiantai Buddhist, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Daoist, Vipassanā
related to Relaxation response and biofeedback · 15
Meditation → Acem Meditation, Also, American, Benson, Biofeedback, Clinically Standardized Meditation, CSM, Harvard Medical School, Herbert Benson, In, In Norway, Patricia Carrington, The Relaxation Response, Tibetan Buddhism, Transcendental Meditation
see also · 15
Meditation → Altered, Analytic, Any, Belief, BuddhismHypnosis, Buddhist, Complete, Deliberate, East Asian, Full, Mindfulness, Psychological, Relaxation, Secular, State
related to Etymology · 14
Meditation → Apart, Buddhism, Catholic, Eastern, Greek, Guigo II, Hinduism, In, Jainism, Latin, Old French, Sanskrit, The English, The Greek
related to Origins · 14
Meditation → According, Alexander Wynne, Bhagavad Gita, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, BU, Gavin Flood, Having, India, Mahabharata, Rossano, Samkhya, Some, The, Upanishads
is a · 11
Meditation → form of meditation which uses a number of different techniques to achieve or enhance the meditative state, fundamental technique in Theravāda and Zen traditions, key practice for achieving liberation, need for everyone, practice in which an individual uses a technique or combination of techniques to train attention and awareness and detach from, primary tool for spiritual development, process of deliberately focusing on specific thoughts, subfield of neurological research, supportive therapy that aides in the treatment for patients diagnosed with insomnia, supportive therapy that aides in the treatment for patients diagnosed with insomnia.In the workplaceA 2010 review of the literature on spirituality and performance in organizati…, term for a form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to get in touch with and deliberately reflect upon the revelations of God
related to Clinical · 8
Meditation → Complementary, However, Integrative Health, Mindfulness, NCCIC, Recent, Since, The US National Center
related to In the workplace · 7
Meditation → Aetna, As, General Mills, Google, Mindful Leadership Program Series, Search Inside Yourself, The
related to Posture · 6
Meditation → Asanas, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, The
has effect · 5
Meditation → During, For, Modern, Recent, Research

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Meditationis apractice in which an individual uses a technique or combination of techniques to train attention and awareness and detach from0.90text
Meditationis afundamental technique in Theravāda and Zen traditions0.90text
Meditationis akey practice for achieving liberation0.90text
Meditationis aterm for a form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to get in touch with and deliberately reflect upon the revelations of God0.90text
Meditationis aprocess of deliberately focusing on specific thoughts0.90text
Meditationis aneed for everyone0.90text
Meditationis aprimary tool for spiritual development0.90text
Meditationis aform of meditation which uses a number of different techniques to achieve or enhance the meditative state0.90text
Meditationis asubfield of neurological research0.90text
Meditationis asupportive therapy that aides in the treatment for patients diagnosed with insomnia.In the workplaceA 2010 review of the literature on spirituality and performance in organizati…0.90text
Meditationis asupportive therapy that aides in the treatment for patients diagnosed with insomnia0.90text
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