Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia - Meditation
Meditation like yoga originated in Vedic Hinduism many centuries ago, it was much later adopted into a wide variety of practices of relig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Overview
The English word meditation comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Overview
In the late nineteenth century, Theosophists adopted "meditation" to refer to various spiritual practices drawn from Hinduism, Buddhism, ...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhist Meditation: Meditation In Buddhism
Buddhist Meditation: Meditation in Buddhism Meditation is something that plays a part in virtually all religions, although some of them ...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation Experiences: Meditation Experiences According To The Ashtanga Yoga Tradition With Commentary On Patanjali's Yoga Sutra - Part Ii
Meditation Experiences by Sarasvati Buhrman PhD - Part II Sometime after 350 B.C. a great yogi sage wrote the "Yoga Sutra". Th...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation: Meditation Experiences According To The Ashtanga Yoga Tradition With Commentary On Patanjali's Yoga Sutra
Meditation Experiences by Sarasvati Buhrman PhD - Part I Sometime after 350 B.C. a great yogi sage wrote the "Yoga Sutra". Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakuhachi: Encyclopedia - Shakuhachi
The shakuhachi (尺八 in Japanese, pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is a Japanese end-blown flute which is held vertically like a recorder i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoga Alternative Medicine: Encyclopedia - Yoga Alternative Medicine
Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christianity: Encyclopedia - Christianity
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martial Arts: Encyclopedia - Martial Arts
A martial art, often referred to as a fighting system, is a system of codified practices and traditions of training for combat, usually (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neigong: Encyclopedia Ii - Neigong - Overview
Neigong 內功 , pinyin nèigōng, also spelt nei kung or neigung meaning "internal skill" is any of a set of Chinese breathing and medit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Spiritual Dictionary On Meditation
meditation: 1. Continuous and profound contemplation or reflection on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or impenetrable nature...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION: 1) reflection, contemplation, the turning inward to Self or outward to Diety. 2) quiet time used to dwell on certain tho...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Meditation
meditation: Dhyana. Sustained concentration.   Meditation describes a quiet, alert, powerfully concentrated state wherein new kn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation Sutra: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Meditation Sutra
Meditation Sutra One of the three core sutras of the Pure Land school.   It teaches sixteen methods of visualizing Amitabha Bud...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Holistic Health Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION Meditation is at least a three-step process that leads to a state of consciousness that brings serenity, clarity, and bliss...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Meditation
MEDITATION The concept of meditation originated in the East, primarily in India, where formal techniques are taught and learnt. In the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation Steady, close and consecutive reflection, and attention on one's own inner thoughts, or perhaps on a religious, or spiritua...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION Discipline in which the mind is focused on a single point of reference. Employed since ancient times in various forms by al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION - n. or adj. 1. art and science of contemplation and concentration spanning Paleolithic hunting rituals. Neolithic mysteri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nectar Meditation: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Nectar Meditation
NECTAR MEDITATION - curling the tongue around and back in the esophagus to taste the divine dew within.   (See also: NECTAR ME...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION: Reflection, contemplation- turning inward toward the self, or outward toward Deity or nature. A quiet time in which the pr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Pagan Wicca Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation - Reflection, contemplation, turning inward toward the self or outward toward Deity or nature.   (See also: Meditat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: a technique of mind control with the goals of feeling an inner calm and peacefulness, profound experiences of self-realiza...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Natural Health Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: A range of practices that involve training one’s attention or awareness so that body and mind can be brought into gr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Transcendental Meditation
Meditation , Transcendental meditation ,  : A state of consciousness in which the individual eliminates environmental stimuli ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: A mental technique, meditation helps to focus and calm the mind, creating a restful state of physical being.   (See...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Natural Health Dictionary Ii On Meditation
Meditation: According to Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of mind/body medicine, meditation can be broadly defined as any...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Meditation
Meditation Although meditation is most often associated with Eastern practices such as Buddhism, every spiritual practice, including C...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: A mental technique for deep relaxation, meditation helps to focus and calm the mind. It may be used to heal the body, quie...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation A technique of mind control that leads to inner feelings of calm and peacefulness and may result in experiences of transcen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Meditation
meditation A state in which to place the body and mind, the physiological and psy- chological selfs, in preparation for the occurrenc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION: Discipline in which the mind is focused on a single point of reference. Employed since ancient times in various forms by a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Meditation
MEDITATION A means of allowing the deepest self to speak. Meditation is really only deep thinking, concentrated and free from distract...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: The practice of inverting the mind to pay attention to the inner silence instead of the outer chaos. Other forms of medita...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Meditation
Meditation: The emptying of the mind of thoughts, or concentration of the mind on just one thing in order to aid mental or spiritual d...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Parapsychology Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation: Mental or physical-mental techniques which aim to produce spiritually desirable states of consciousness.   (See al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendental Meditation: Parapsychology Dictionary On Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation: A technique of meditation taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, involving the repetition of a sound (mantra). ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Seated Meditation: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Seated Meditation
Seated Meditation (zazen): Zen Buddhist practice of sitting and meditating on ordinary conscious experience for long periods of time. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendental Meditation: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Transcendental Meditation
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION In the mid-nineteenth century, a man was born into the “Tradition of Masters” in India, and who ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation According to Swami Vishnu Devananda, meditation is "….a continuous flow of perception or thought, just like the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditative Postures: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Meditative Postures
Meditative Postures   Yoni Mudra ·  Close your ears with thumbs. ·  Cover your eyes with your index fing...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation Ideal for disciplining the mind and removing stress & strain, it is best done after a quick bath to cleanse yourself. C...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation A technique of mind control that leads to inner feelings of calm and peacefulness and may result in experiences of transcen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tm (transcendental Meditation): New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Tm (transcendental Meditation)
TM (Transcendental Meditation) Spiritual movement founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi stressing mantra, 1959   (See also: TM (Tr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation For Health: Natural Health Therapy Dictionary On Meditation For Health
MEDITATION: A technique of mind control that often leads to a feeling of inner calm and peacefulness, and may result in profound exper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Overview
The occult nature of gnostic teaching (as seen from a modern viewpoint) and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools co...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Microcosmic Orbit Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Microcosmic Orbit Meditation
Microcosmic Orbit Meditation (Microcosmic Orbit, Taoist Microcosmic Orbit Meditation): A foundational component of the Healing Tao Sys...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taeuiju Healing Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Taeuiju Healing Meditation
TaeUIJu Healing Meditation (TaeUIJu, TaeUIJu healing, TaeUIJu meditation): Mode of meditation promoted by JeungSanDo, an organization ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Inner Smile Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Inner Smile Meditation
Inner Smile (Inner Smile Meditation, "inner smile" technique): A fundamental component of the Healing Tao System. Inner Smil...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reiki Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Reiki Meditation
Reiki Meditation: Meditation system that involves the "healing power of Reiki." It can bring on clairvoyance and release or ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendental Meditation: Health And Healing Dictionary On Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded TM in 1957. TM is a means of experiencing "pure awareness." It invo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fusion Meditations: Alternative Health Dictionary On Fusion Meditations
Fusion meditations (Fusion Meditation, Fusion practice, Fusion practices): Component of the Healing Tao System.   The Fusion med...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mantra Yoga Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Mantra Yoga Meditation
Mantra Yoga Meditation (MYM, Mantra Yoga Meditation technique): Form of silent meditation introduced to the West by Swami Guru Devanan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Thought Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - New Thought Movement - Overview
New Thought religions generally share a belief in the universal presence of a creative energy, or God, within the world and within all pe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Possibility Thinking Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Possibility Thinking Meditation
Possibility Thinking Meditation (PTM): Component of Possibility Thinking. According to PTM theory, mantras with the m sound facilitate...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Radiance Breathing Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Radiance Breathing Meditation
Radiance Breathing Meditation: Component of Radiance Breathwork described by university professor Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., and dance ther...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Primordial Sound Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Primordial Sound Meditation
Primordial Sound Meditation: Ancient form of mantra (or sound) meditation revived by Deepak Chopra, M.D. It involves selection of a ma...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tatwa Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tatwa Meditation
Tatwa meditation: Cornerstone of a holistic system of self-healing developed by spiritual teacher Emahmn (sic). Tatwas are Hindu manda...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendental Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation (TM): One of the two most important techniques of Maharishi Ayur-Ved. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded TM in 19...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chi Kung Meditations: Alternative Health Dictionary On Chi Kung Meditations
Chi Kung Meditations: Group of three meditations based on chi kung (Qigong), advanced by Kenneth S. Cohen, M.A. (see Taoist Healing Im...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Color Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Color Meditation
Color Meditation (CM, Color Magick): Variation of color therapy developed by occultist Ray Buckland. It includes sequentially visualiz...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Creative Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Creative Meditation
creative meditation: Subject of Richard O. Peterson's 1990 book of the same name. It uses vibrational patterns to effect attunement, s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jewish Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Jewish Meditation
Jewish meditation (Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalistic System of Insight): Judaic approach to personal growth promoted by Chabad Lubavit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kinetic Trance-meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Kinetic Trance-meditation
Kinetic Trance-Meditation (KTM): Technique that allows one to tap into the unconscious for information and energy. Teodoro (Teo) Cordo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Led Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Led Meditation
led meditation: Form of group meditation wherein someone (a) describes the process of relaxation and (b) outlines a situation that may...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Healing Heart Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Healing Heart Meditation
Healing Heart Meditation: Healing tool that re-connects people with their spiritual roots. It includes guided meditation. one of its p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Reiki Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Reiki Meditation
Reiki meditation: Meditation system that involves the healing power of Reiki. It can bring on clairvoyance and release or transmute ne...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hypno-meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Hypno-meditation
Hypno-Meditation: Component of FITONICS originated by Dr. Donald Burton Schnell. Hypno-Meditation is a synthesis of Eastern and Wester...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Christianity - Overview
With an estimated 2.1 billion adherents, it is arguably the world's largest religion. Its origins are intertwined with Judaism, with whic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meditation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Meditation
Meditation The attempt to raise the self-conscious mind to the level of its spiritual counterpart, to unite manas with a ray from budd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Christianity - Denominations Of Christianity
Christianity encompasses numerous religious traditions that widely vary by culture and place, as well as many diverse beliefs and sects. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program: Alternative Health Dictionary On Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program
TM-Sidhi (TM-Sidhi program, Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program, yogic flying): A natural extension of Transcendental Meditation. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tai Chi Chuan: Encyclopedia Ii - Tai Chi Chuan - Overview
Historically, T'ai Chi Ch'uan has been regarded as a martial art, and its more traditional practitioners still teach it as one. Even so, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tai Chi Chuan: Encyclopedia Ii - Tai Chi Chuan - Overview
Historically, T'ai Chi Ch'uan has been regarded as a martial art, and its traditional practitioners still teach it as one. Even so, it ha...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Woojangju Power Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Woojangju Power Meditation
WooJangJu Power Meditation (WooJangJu Power Chant): Variation of TaeUIJu Healing Meditation. Its design is to protect meditators, whil...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Golden Light Solar Meditation: Alternative Health Dictionary On Golden Light Solar Meditation
Golden Light Solar Meditation: Part of Taoist Healing Imagery that is a means of absorbing life energy from nature.   (See also...   » Read the article

Dictionary - 7 Keys Meditation Program: Alternative Health Dictionary On 7 Keys Meditation Program
7 Keys Meditation Program: System based on seven spiritual tools revealed to David Wheeler. The Keys can unlock one's potential for tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Overview
The complex nature of gnostic teaching and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools comprising Gnosticism has tradition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Etymology
The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνώσις), referring to the idea that there is special esoteric ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Background And Origins Of Gnosticism
The ultimate foundational elements of gnosticism are pre-Christian. That said, the exact origins of Gnosticism are a subject of dispute a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Theology And Cosmology
Some historians accept that there is a significant amount of Buddhist/Hindu influence in Gnostic interpretations of the Bible. The standa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Matter
Some Gnostics, again in common with such Neoplatonic philosophers as Plotinus, held matter to be evil, but only as a method of depicting ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Lifestyle
Most Gnostics practiced celibacy and asceticism, on the grounds that the pleasures of the flesh induced the subject to remain ignorant of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Gnostic Sects
(Note: It is a matter of controversy if these sects had a real succession of ideas or communion with each other, or if they more or less ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Sources
We have two main historical sources for information on Gnosticism: critiques on Gnosticism by orthodox Christians (i.e. Heresiologies suc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Roof Dreams Symbol: Christian Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Roof
Roof: See also Upstairs and Attic: The mind; meditation; logic or natural; shield or covering of protection; heavenly revelation; pray...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Roof Dreams Symbol: Christian Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Roof
Roof: See also Upstairs and Attic: The mind; meditation; logic or natural; shield or covering of protection; heavenly revelation; pray...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Health Applications And Clinical Studies Of Meditation
In the recent years there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation (Venk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Health Applications And Clinical Studies Of Meditation
In the recent years there has been a growing interest within the medical community to study the physiological effects of meditation (Venk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Frequency And Duration
These vary so much that it is difficult to venture any general comments. On one extreme there exist monks and nuns whose whole lives are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Purposes And Effects Of Meditation
The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. Meditation may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Types Of Meditation
According to Bogart (1991) and Perez-De-Albeniz & Holmes (2000) the different techniques of meditation can be classified according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Meditation In Context
Most traditions address the integration of mind, body, and spirit (this is a major theme of the Bhagavad-Gita); or that of spiritual prac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Physical Postures
Different spiritual traditions, and different teachers within those traditions, prescribe or suggest different physical postures for medi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Purposes And Effects Of Meditation
The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. Meditation may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Types Of Meditation
According to Bogart (1991) and Perez-De-Albeniz & Holmes (2000) the different techniques of meditation can be classified according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Frequency And Duration
These vary so much that it is difficult to venture any general comments. On one extreme there exist monks and nuns whose whole lives are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Meditation In Context
While meditation focuses on mental or psycho-spiritual activity, this is of course only one of several spheres of human existence; and we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meditation: Encyclopedia Ii - Meditation - Physical Postures
Different spiritual traditions, and different teachers within those traditions, prescribe or suggest different physical postures for medi...   » Read the article