When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you’re on set, all day? That’s what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Taking a 10-minute meditation break is something you can do anywhere in your office, and it’s so easy – you’re not at the altar.
The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity.
People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can’t help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins and having time out for meditation are so important.
Tarantino’s movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they’re in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Meditation doesn’t have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
Yoga, meditation, and unplugging the phone at night to make sure I get enough hours of sleep. That’s huge for athletes.
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t do an Asana and meditation practice.
I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.
I watch mostly every martial arts movie… I really like movies that aren’t just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.
I’d been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It’s the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It’s very powerful.
Walking is magic. Can’t recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps… this is a primal way to connect with one’s deeper self.
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
Meditation isn’t necessarily this magical experience where we don’t ever have thoughts.
For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It’s ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don’t wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours – the loneness of the long distance runner.
The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn’t thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, ‘Oh my God, it’s time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?’
Speaking out to your close ones, even if it is over the phone, is the right way to relieve stress and further amplify the same relief by meditation.
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
Before you find a way to channel your emotional energy, you must take time to be still and actually feel. Meditation is a simple tool for becoming present.
You cannot turn your brain off or stop your thoughts, but you can try while meditating not to become too invested in them. This is called transcendental meditation, which is the kind I practice.
If you run regularly for 10 to 15 kms, you get into that space where it is like meditation. There is no confusion in your head, thoughts enter and leave and you let go of all your pent-up emotions.
Without meditation, I’d probably be dead.
For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
My life includes much meditation and good energy, so my mind will stay busy.
I believe in meditation – it’s a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I’m too lazy to do it. It’s very hard work, and I prefer to watch ‘Nothing To Declare’ on TV!
Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.
Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.
I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it.
Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It’s a mental technique.
I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.
Working out early in the morning is a form of meditation for me. It’s practically the only hour to myself and I get to shut off and just sweat it all out.
Meditation has been very, very helpful. You know, even if it’s just 5 minutes a day.
When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day – you bring your whole self rather than your stressed-out self.
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation – it’s like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
Sleep is the best meditation.
It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.
To me to singing is like a freedom. It’s a very therapeutic thing. It’s incredible. I can just lose myself. It’s sort of like meditation.
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
I feel like I’m calmer, I’m kinder, I’m more patient the more I do my own meditation.
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.
I am not a great sleeper, so 30 minutes of meditation, they say in research, is as good as two or three hours sleep, which is why you feel better.
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression.
I’m not religious, but I do pray. It’s 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.
Meditation is key. It’s a crazy world we live in. Everything is happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more.
Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.
