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Meditation Teachers Reveal Their Favorite Ways To Meditate
One of the best parts of a meditation practise is learning new techniques. There are so many different pranayamas or breathing exercises. We try to document different techniques so we can go back to them whenever the moment is right. PsychCentral and Margarita Tartakovsky put together a nice write up recently on how different teachers techniques. […]
12/5 Art: Artist cultivates magical worlds with miniature bonsai trees
The spiritual and cultural significance of growing miniature bonsai trees derives from a thousand-year-old horticultural tradition in Japan, representing a careful, contemplative and Zen-influenced relationship between humans and nature. Taking up this time-honoured practice of cultivating trees, Japanese artist-architect Takanori Aiba gives his bonsai an unusual twist by adding on miniature, realistic structures like bridges, stairs and intricately detailed […]
Nelson Mandela on “Why Not?”
Interesting New Technology: Spritz Speed Reading
Elite Daily said it well when they said, “The reading game is about to change forever.” First try using Spritz at a speed that the average American reads, 250 Words Per Minute: Now, what exactly is Spritz? Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology. When you’re spritzing, you’re reading text one word at a time […]