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'You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day — unless

you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.'

- Zen proverb M O V E M E N T

M E D I T A T I O N

T R A N S C E N D E N T A L If you want to develop body

M E D I T A T I O N awareness and find peace in
action, you may want to try

This type of mediation has been movement meditation.
extensively studied by the
scientific community and it has This form of active meditation

been found to positively means using movement as the
contribute to brain function, main tool for establishing a

cardiovascular health and deeper connection with your
stress-related conditions. body and the present moment.

The most important part is
What is different about it? being mindful about the

There is no trying to keep the process when it takes place.
mind still and empty
No mindfulness Types of movement meditation:

No focus walking
No monitoring of thoughts gardening

qigong
It was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi tai chi

who brought this technique to other forms of gentle
the US in the 1960s, after he movement

derived it from ancient Vedic
tradition.

Don't forget there is no
The way to engage in it is to
transcend the thinking one size fits all, you can

processes, by sitting always readapt and
comfortably with eyes closed combine the meditative

and silently repeating a mantra
for 15-20 minutes. What you techniques as you want
should be feeling in the process and maybe come up

of this meditation is a state of with your own personal
pure consciousness, free of way to practice it!

mental boundaries.