Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.
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It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.
I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
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