Meditation
» Please visit our special Meditation Page to find a list of key articles, audio recordings and more on the study and practice of meditation, selected from IONS' comprehensive archive of consciousness-related media.
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"Healing Power of Meditation" with Susan Taylor
Imagine combining meditation science with time-tested nutritional, breathing and relaxation techniques. Dr. Susan Taylor did. Today, the growing popularity of yoga has offered many people a glimpse into the benefits of meditation. Yet, while yoga is traditionally intended as a preparation for deeper meditative experiences, yoga classes often only address the physical aspects of the practice.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-06-18
- 01:00:34
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Aristotle and Human Flourishing
In the 4th century BC, Aristotle gave a series of lectures in Athens that became know as the Nicomachean Ethics. There he introduced the word eudaimonia, now translated to mean “human flourishing” – the innate potential of each individual to live a life of enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal well being...
- Inner Wisdom
- Personal Well-being
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Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery
Tapping into the heart's wisdom through creative visualization is an ancient practice, but today guided imagery is used as an adjunct to conventional medical therapies for health issues ranging from cancer and heart disease to post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
- Publications Books
- February 1, 2009
- 224 pages
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 1 of 5)
IONS Board Member Lee Lipsenthal talks with IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz about changes in allopathic health care and the wider acceptance of meditation, yoga, and consciousness in healing practices.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:57
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 2 of 5)
Marilyn and Lee discuss the challenges new medical students face learning alternative healing modalities in addition to their required allopathic curriculum.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:37
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"Leader as Healer and Agent of Transformation" with Robert Gass
With host and former IONS president James O'Dea, committed social change agent, Robert Gass, shares stories of his own personal and professional challenges and triumphs and the value of meditation and the application of noetic principles to shifting difficult situations from hopeless to life-affirming.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-04-04
- 01:02:20
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Meditation Research: A Bridge between Worldviews…
Research on meditation is not off limits any longer. Scientists are learning from the spiritual traditions without contaminating the scientific method. Spiritual groups are seeking scientific evidence for the role of meditation to better understand their practice and deepen their faith. Health interventions are benefitting from centuries of scientific research as well as millennia of spiritual inquiry. This is something that we get really excited about at IONS. And meditation research paved the way.
- Noetic Research
- Worldview