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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Meditation</title>
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		<title>Indian bringing meditation to Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ravi Shankar discovered that many people have so much stress and so many nagging, swirling thoughts that they can't get into a meditative state. What they needed, he decided, was a class in yogic breathing, pared down to a few, simple exercises.]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation: Science adds facts to faith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wellness/The mind: Those who meditate have long believed in its healing power, and now science is adding facts to faith
This is your brain: shallow, squiggly, erratic lines. This is your brain on meditation: deep, graceful, synchronized lines.
With an electroencephalograph and a willing subject, Alarik Arenander demonstrates the effects meditation has on brainwaves to a curious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual meditation &#8216;may reduce pain&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meditation makes people more relaxed and able to withstand pain if it has a spiritual basis, say scientists.
Student volunteers were put into three groups, one asked to concentrate on a phrase such as &#8220;God is love&#8221; or &#8220;God is peace&#8221; as they meditated, another to focus on messages such as &#8220;I am happy&#8221; or &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation &#8216;brain training&#8217; clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meditating monks are giving clues about how the brain&#8217;s basic responses can be overridden, researchers say. 
Australian scientists gave Buddhist monks vision tests, where each eye was concurrently shown a different image. 
Most people&#8217;s attention would automatically fluctuate - but the monks were able to focus on just one image. 
Writing in Current Biology, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9797/meditation-gives-brain-a-charge-study-finds</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness.
Those transformed states have traditionally been understood in transcendent terms, as something outside the world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why chilling out is the new cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood celebrities are doing it, and swear by its results. But meditation makes everyone feel better, writes Sal Morgan.
A decade ago it was boozing and sex. Then came drugs and bingeing. Later, dieting and hard-core gym workouts. Lately though, Hollywood stars have been slowing down and waxing lyrical in interviews about stopping to smell the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditate and cut crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the citizens of the country ever enjoy a crime-free environment? Will this world ever find peace? 
These are some of the questions that drove the Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre to publicly launch World Peace Hour recently at its Chaguanas branch. 
The centre hopes to spread, through prayer and meditation, a peaceful attitude that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8217;spiritual path&#8217; in our own neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people take up meditation for spiritual enlightenment and to improve their health, both physical and mental
Seated quietly in a large, darkened room at the Spiritual Path Holistic Center, Willowbrook, Blanca Greenberg, a certified spiritual counselor, leads a small class in meditation. Her students sit facing her on the floor, on blankets.
The room is silent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear the mind, treat the body</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6420/clear-the-mind-treat-the-body</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meditation is gaining support for relieving stress and easing symptoms 
&#8226; Eat a balanced diet.
&#8226; Get 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day.
&#8226; Meditate.
More and more people are adding meditation to their healthy lifestyle checklist.
June Pittleman of Louisville did just that when she started experiencing nausea, headaches and dizziness but regular medical diagnostic tests didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindful therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5869/mindful-therapy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the night, Dale Lechtman wakes up, all kinds of thoughts crowding sleep out of her mind. But Lechtman uses meditation to handle insomnia.
Lying in bed, she focuses on breathing. She takes in air deeply. Then, she expels it through her nose and mouth slowly, as though she were trying to make [...]]]></description>
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