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active meditation

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active meditation,
n meditation process which uses various techniques to help individuals improve self-awareness. The techniques include breathing, movement, visualization, and exercises. Exercises may be instructor-guided, and feedback between student and instructor is considered important to the process.


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However, it doesn''t have to be this and the same benefits can also come from so-called active meditation, for example when you''re swimming length after length and just get lost in the activity, losing all sense of the number of lengths you''ve swum, time or anything other than the here and now.
meditate while you cook Consider the time you spend in the kitchen active meditation.
One early form of ritual dance is mandala meditations a kind of active meditation that energizes the body while allowing the mind the wander freely.
 
 
 
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