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Kirtan: The Easy Meditation That Can Improve Your Brain: Discover How 12 Minutes a Day Can Improve How You Think and Feel.

By Jennice Vilhauer Ph.D. — 2018

Discover how 12 minutes a day can improve how you think and feel.

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Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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Lorin Roche
2022
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Which Type of Meditation Is Right for Me?

Not all meditation styles are right for everyone. These practices require different skills and mindsets. How do you know which practice is right for you?

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Holly J. Bertone
2021
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The Power of Kirtan

As yoga has become increasingly popular in the United States, so has the ancient practice of kirtan (KEER-tahn), or yogic chanting. The call-and-response format of chanting is a type of yoga in itself and has many of the mind-calming benefits of a yoga class or sitting meditation.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
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The Beginners' Guide to Kirtan and Mantra

Across the country and around the world, yoga practitioners are chanting in foreign tongues, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Gurmukhi. They’re even chanting in English.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
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Planetary Healing Sounds

The following article contains information about three short and powerful mantras—sacred sounds that may effectively be used individually or in groups for transformation: “OM”, “AH” and “HU”. These mantras are particularly useful sounds for projecting specific intentions.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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Letter to a New Meditator

Everything you ever wanted to know about meditating, but didn't have a teacher to ask.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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Krishna Das

Krishna Das leads kirtan (chants invoking the name of God) all over the world. After meeting Ram Dass in 1968, he went on to the life-altering epiphany of being with their guru, Neem Karoli Baba, Maharaj-ji.

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David Silver
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