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By Carole Fogarty Editor Rejuvenation Lounge , facilitator of Women’s Rejuvenation Retreats: Rejuvenate Your Habits: “ The ancients defined concentration as the ability to focus the mind on one object for 12 seconds, approximately one breath” I’m doing my best to say “no” to distractions and encourage my mind to stay focused on one (significant) task at a time. Sounds easy in theory, but in reality life is full of many lovely and not so

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I don’t have much to show for knitting this week. My Hedera socks are coming along nicely, I’m almost down to the heels now, and as I’m knitting them both at once I’ll be wearing them pretty soon! The Hemlock Ring blanket that I’m working on is a joy to knit in the still-cold evenings. It’s warm and cosy to have on my lap, and requires almost no concentration at all! Instead, I thought I’d fill you in on a couple of other things I’ve been up to. I had just the best day last Saturda

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Are you new to yoga? Your entire yoga practice is a meditation. As you perform your yoga poses, you focus strictly on what’s happening with your body and what you’re trying to do. You move out of everyday consciousness into real concentration which is the basis of meditation.

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Richard asked on my last post : How do you usually distinguish contemplation from meditation? I’d say contemplation is a type of meditation: a type with more thought than most. To explain the matter as well as I understand it (can’t do better than that after all), I think I have to categorize all types of meditation - or what’s usually called meditation. I looked up the subject in the Yoga Sutras, which I’ve been studying lately. I also turned to what works of Ken Wilber I have in my libra

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This involves disciplining your body and emotions so that your individual spirit can become part of the universal spirit. While a beginner may only be aware of the physical side, there are many different ways of doing yoga, focusing on giving of oneself without reward, unveiling the illusions of the world, using emotional energy in one’s spiritual practice and focusing on concentration and mind control.

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