continuing from the old thread:

meditationclub.tribe.net/threa...a3d494



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Coleman Barks Reading Rumi's "Love Dogs" on You Tube (backed by the Paul Winter Consort)

www.youtube.com/watch

(video has very long introduction, about 35 seconds before sound starts)

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Meditation for Better Sleep - Associated Professional Sleep Societies

www.drweil.com/drw/u/WBL0...sity.html#2


Relaxation or sedation may seem like the obvious short term solutions to sleeping problems, but learning to meditate may help overcome insomnia and lead to lasting improvements in all aspects of sleep, according to study findings presented in June at the
annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

All of the 11 participants in a meditation study suffered from insomnia but were otherwise healthy. The principal investigator noted that insomnia is not just a night-time problem - effects such as hyperarousal and elevated measures of arousal are seen all day. For the study, the participants were divided into two groups. Both were taught about sleep hygiene. Then one group learned Kriya yoga, a form of meditation that has been shown to reduce measures of arousal. The other group received health education. After two months, the researchers assessed sleep quality, total sleep time, sleep efficiency, depression and other measures of sleep quality. All of these factors improved among the group that learned to meditate.
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Meditation Techniques:

General:

www.freemeditations.com

EFT:

www.emofree.com/


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I Meditate So That

by Sri Chinmmoy


www.srichinmoylibrary.com/books/0513/1/1

quoting from the beginning of the book:

"I meditate

So that when

"The Hour of God"

Strikes I shall not

Be late in my

Unconditional

Surrender-examination."



(In 2007, Sri Chinmoy was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev)


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Quotes from -- Paramahansa Yogananda and Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth is not theory, no speculative system of philosophy, no intellectual insight. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. For man, truth is the unshakeable knowledge of his real nature, his Self."

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say 'more or less' because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

from:
www.diamondhelpers.com/lovean...h.shtml

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Riches May Vanish

Quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Praise cannot exist without blame; it has no existence without its opposite."

"Riches and power may vanish because they are outside ourselves; only that which is within can we call our own."

"The world is evolving from imperfection towards perfection; it needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness is required from each one of us."

"Forbearance, patience and tolerance are the only conditions which keep two individual hearts united."

"So long as a man has a longing to obtain any particular object, he cannot go further than that object."

"Every man's desire is according to his evolution; that which he is ready for, is the desirable thing for him."

from:

Bowl of Saki -

wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_new.php


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