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Mindfulness ExercisesSit down for 3 hours and a half to meditate, relax your……. WHAT??? OK, OK, I am joking. The truth is that you don't need to sit down to meditate that long, or to meditate at all to practice mindfulness. There are several small actions that you can do during a day to practice it, whether you are a meditator or not. You can do most of these mindfulness exercises wherever you are, at any given moment. They are very simple, but incredibly powerful. While you are doing these exercises (or any mindfulness exercises) your mind will tend to wander and that's completely OK. It's not that you have a bad mind or anything like that. It's just that your mind is undisciplined or uneducated in this. So, while you are practicing don't beat yourself too hard if in the middle of the exercise you started to think about the bills that you have to pay or the text message that you had to send. Just when you notice that you are wandering, accept it and go back to the exercise without feeling of anger or being discouraged.

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Meditation may have potential to change the brain's physical structure, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found. People who meditate have stronger connections between brain regions and show less age-related brain atrophy, according to the researchers. Stronger connections influence the ability to rapidly relay electrical signals in the brain. And significantly, these effects are evident throughout the entire brain, not just in specific areas. The study consisted of 27 active meditation practitioners (average age 52) and 27 control subjects, who were matched by age and sex. The meditation and the control group each consisted of 11 men and 16 women. The number of years of meditation practice ranged from 5 to 46; self-reported meditation styles included Shamatha, Vipassana and Zazen, practiced by about 55 percent of the meditators, either exclusively or in combination with other styles. Pronounced structural connectivity The researchers used a type of brain imaging known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a relatively new imaging mode that provides insights into the structural connectivity of the brain. They found that the differences between meditators and controls are not confined to a particular core region of the brain but involve large-scale networks that include the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes and the anterior corpus callosum, as well as limbic structures and the brain stem. They found pronounced structural connectivity in meditators throughout the entire brain's pathways. The greatest differences between the two groups were seen within the corticospinal tract (a collection of axons that travel between the cerebral cortex of the brain and the spinal cord), the superior longitudinal fasciculus (long bi-directional bundles of neurons connecting the front and the back of the cerebrum), and the uncinate fasciculus (white matter that connects parts of the limbic system, such as the hippocampus and amygdala, wi

Yoga is an ancient practice to tune body, breath and mind. It helps to strengthen the body and make it healthier and flexible. This ancient practice is still considered as the best exercise. Here are few reasons for the same.

We've pretty much accepted that yoga is an effective life changing practice that is here to stay. Still, not all yoga practices are made equal. As astounding as the yoga practice is (I should know, I've been teaching and practicing for the past twelve years) it's still a physical practice, and simply like whatever other type of movement you can hurt yourself.

Patients these days checkout their own symptoms on the web, see medications and more often than not go for self medication. It is best that doctors be where patients are and adopt Virtual Practice - It benefits both in more ways than either can imagine!

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What are the benefits of mindfulness? How do you establish a solid mindfulness practice? What are the keys to progress in mindfulness? What are the challenges along the way?

The art of practicing yoga helps in controlling an individual's mind, body and soul. Yoga Stretches for Beginners brings together physical and mental disciplines to achieve a peaceful body and mind it helps manage stress and anxiety and keeps you relaxing. It also helps in increasing flexibility, muscle strength and body tone. It improves respiration, energy and vitality. Practicing Beginners yoga might seem like just stretching, but it can do much more for your body from the way you feel, look and move.

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Here is a question that is as important as it is common. Of course it's discouraging to practice meditation for years without making any serious progress. Let's take a close look at the possible reasons for stalling in one's meditation practice...

You may have practiced yoga or meditation for years, yet you have one foot in spirituality and the other in desire. As you already know, it's hard to let go of worldly pleasures. In this post I'll share some pointers and encourage you to take your spiritual practice to a higher level...

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Dr Pradeep Jain is an established bariatric and gastrointestinal onco surgeon having done thousands of advanced laparoscopic surgeries successfully in 16 years of practice.

Dr Pradeep Jain is an established bariatric and gastrointestinal onco surgeon having done thousands of advanced laparoscopic surgeries successfully in 16 years of practice.

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The challenges of meditation practice are often encountered during a silent meditation retreat. Learn how to overcome these obstacles and deepen your practice.

A great way to deepen your meditation practice is by visiting ashrams, monasteries or other spiritual communities. Learn more about this in this article.

Discover the benefits of mindfulness practice. Learn to live in the present moment...