Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking", [note 1] achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, [1][2][3][4][web 1][web 2] while not judging the meditation process itself. [note 2] Meditation techniques are broadly classified into focused (or concentrative) and open ...
Religion News Service: The transformative power of meditation: Self-Realization Fellowship World Convocation
Free week of guided meditations, divine friendship, and inspiration from the wisdom of Paramahansa Yogananda Thousands of members and friends of Self-Realization Fellowship from around the world will ...
The Conversation: Mindfulness, meditation and self‑compassion – a clinical psychologist explains how these science‑backed practices can improve mental health
Mindfulness, meditation and self‑compassion – a clinical psychologist explains how these science‑backed practices can improve mental health
News Medical: Study: 15-minute focused-attention meditation blurs boundary between self and the environment
An experimental study with nonmeditator participants revealed that a 15-minute focused-attention meditation session blurred the boundary between the self and the environment, aligning with the feeling ...
San Diego Union-Tribune: In Encinitas, nature’s beauty feeds the soul at Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens
Many visitors to the Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens come to gaze at the plants, koi ponds and expansive ocean vistas. But for Fellowship followers, the public gardens that SRF founder ...
In Encinitas, nature’s beauty feeds the soul at Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens
A new study suggests that loving-kindness and compassion meditation may be linked to lower anxiety over time, not just through longer practice, but also by building self-compassion and loosening the ...
Scientific American: Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self