April 2, 2022

San Diego Union Tribune: For this San Diego healing artist, musical meditation and jam sessions were her salvation during the pandemic

San Diego Union Tribune: For this San Diego healing artist, musical meditation and jam sessions were her salvation during the pandemic. “San Diegan Liza Plummer — known as Lyza E. on stage — is a singer and healing artist who began hosting jam sessions and musical meditation gatherings during the pandemic to help people manage the stresses and anxieties that came with COVID-19.”

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March 21, 2022

TikTok meets meditation: The singing bowl is a hit (Mashable)

Mashable: TikTok meets meditation: The singing bowl is a hit. “[Elizabeth] Jasmine, whose videos have garnered 32,000 followers and half a million likes, is part of a fast-growing ‘singing bowl’ or ‘sound bowl’ community on the app. The hashtag #singingbowl has 106 million views on TikTok, while #singingbowlmeditation has 5.3 million. Videos are often saturated in colors such as violet or midnight blue, which creators hope will evoke the calming sensation their sound is known for.”

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August 25, 2021

PsyPost: Mindfulness meditation training reduces the negative emotional impact of COVID-19 news exposure

PsyPost: Mindfulness meditation training reduces the negative emotional impact of COVID-19 news exposure. “Ample research supports the use of mindfulness meditation for better mental health, but it was unclear whether these effects would hold true in the context of COVID-19 with prolonged quarantine and related stressors. In our study, we found that a regular dose of mindfulness practice every day for 10 days provide a buffer against the negative impact of COVID-19 news consumption.”

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February 15, 2020

MakeUseOf: 5 Easiest Meditation Tools for Beginners to Learn Mindfulness

MakeUseOf: 5 Easiest Meditation Tools for Beginners to Learn Mindfulness. “Meditation is much easier than you might think. Meditation is a mental exercise that you can do at any point, and for any purpose. It can help calm anxiety, refresh your brain, change your mood, along with many other uses. These are some of the simplest guides and tools to you practice meditation. We’ve also included a couple of recommended apps, along with a repository of meditation apps for different purposes.”

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June 13, 2019

NBC News: I swapped social media for meditation — and it turned me into a monster

NBC News: I swapped social media for meditation — and it turned me into a monster. “I believe in making big changes in my life only after I’ve made big mistakes. I know that’s not the most logical way of handling things that aren’t going so well, but as someone who is inherently stubborn, it’s nearly impossible for me to wake up and smell the roses, until, of course, the flowers are completely wilted. And that’s how it happened with my social media addiction. I started to realize I had an extreme reliance on social media when my boyfriend asked me a question that made my insides tingle.” NOT THAT KIND OF QUESTION! Geez, y’all.

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June 8, 2019

Tricycle: New Retreat Search Site Helps You Find a Place to Find Some Peace

Tricycle: New Retreat Search Site Helps You Find a Place to Find Some Peace. “RetreatBase currently lets users browse more than 750 retreats at 150 centers, making it more straightforward for people to find programs that fit their schedules, budgets, and traditions. While similar services already existed for yoga retreats, creator Alan Ni said that there was no centralized resource for silent meditation retreats.” Currently the database covers the US only.

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June 27, 2017

Blue Mountain Center of Meditation Creates Digital Library for Eknath Easwaran

The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation has created a digital archive for some of the works of Eknath Easwaran. “The Library is an easy-to-use platform offering rich video and audio talks previously unavailable to our worldwide audience. In these talks, Easwaran is speaking to his close students about the teachings of the mystics, spiritual living, and his own eight-point program of passage meditation. The talks have been curated to cover Easwaran’s signature themes across all the different decades of his teaching and new content is published every two weeks.” The Library is free. Unfortunately, it does not appear that subtitles are available.

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March 4, 2016

Couple of Online Information Collection Kickstarters

Two possibly interesting Kickstarter projects you might want to know about. The first one is trying to crowdfund a collection of free illustrations for speech therapists to use. “Every day, in all parts of Italy (maybe in your country too), new speech therapists find themselves having to create in a hurry, often with material found at the last minute, customized activities for their children. In this way, it takes its time building something that others have already built over and over again … well, we reinvents the wheel. The purpose of this project is to create a shared database of free images for the activities of speech therapists.” The English in this Kickstarter is a little rough, but his English is 1000x better than my Italian, so. The second one is a project to digitize the sound files of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Maharishi. “Some 40 thousand hours of video and […]

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January 12, 2016

How Periscope Is Changing the Way People Meditate

Interesting: How Periscope is changing the way people meditate. “Livestreaming apps like Periscope have spawned a vast and influential meditation community, with thousands of people logging on to bliss out, sometimes for hours at a time. For those of you seeking a tribe that’s more your vibe in 2016, Periscope’s livestreaming meditation community might provide the people and peace that you seek.”

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