Vipassana has especially helped Katial stay calm and focussed during the lockdown. "It has helped me rediscover myself and lead life in a better way"

Tarun Katial, CEO of ZEE5 India, always starts his day with an hour-long session of Vipassana. The oldest of Buddhist meditation practices, Vipassana is also known as insight meditation movement, a direct and gradual cultivation of awareness. Vipassana, says Katial, not just rejuvenates him for the entire day, it has also taught him to ignore insignificant frills. "Vipassana meditation is the anchor of my life. I was in my raging 20s when my aunt gifted me S.N. Goenka's book, The Art of Living. It taught me to be introspective and look for solutions within myself rather than outside. This book has transformed me into a softer, less-selfish person."

Vipassana has especially helped him stay calm and focussed during the lockdown. "It has helped me rediscover myself and lead life in a better way."

Meditation, claims Katial, has also helped him stay grounded. He was among the young achievers of the media industry but says he got all that glory because of his good karma. Vipassana has taught him not to be scared of the future. "Nothing is permanent in life," he says. "I never get too excited with success or too depressed with failure. So, this attitude sort of keeps me rooted," he says.

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Let it all out ARE you feeling the stresses of life? Having problems winding down at the end of the day? Then try these simple mediation exercises.

Body ScanEase tension after a long day. Find a comfortable position and take time to find your calm, steady breath. Become aware of sensations in your body, and begin slow breaths focused on each area. Start with your left toes and left foot, left ankle, calf, knee, thigh and up to your left hip. If you notice tension, breathe into it, relax on the exhale. Now the right side. Then up to the pelvis, abdomen and lower back, moving up through the torso and heart. From there your fingers, hands, wrists, up the arms, through the shoulders, neck, jaw, temples, ears, eyes, forehead, and skull.

Mindful BreathingPractice twice daily to develop focus, attention, clarity and calm. Sit comfortably with a straight spine and find a slow breath. Count when you exhale and inhale from one to ten e.g. inhale one, exhale one; inhale two, exhale two.

Upon reaching ten, begin again but count down to one. When youve completed this cycle five times, maintain breathing at this calm and consistent pace, for two minutes, imagining your breath flowing through the respiratory system and realising its connection with your body.

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June 11, 2020

The Rev. Catherine Quehl-Engel has a stack of evaluation papers now that her adjunct course, Mindfulness, Meditation & Psychological Health, has wrapped up for the year.

But what shes left with isnt your typical course evaluation, its proof that even though the course is overher students are changing the Cornell community and the world around us.

Her students write:

It made me realize that when you give love, there are higher chances to receive love.

My relationships feel stronger because I have increased gratitude for the people I love.

It made me more aware that everyone is going through something and they need love.

The course is offered at the beginning of each semester and meets the first seven Mondays from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. and launched in the fall of the 201819 academic year. Students are asked to maintain a 10-minute practice on their own time each day, keep a daily log using an app, and fulfill a light amount of reading. In return, they get credit.

Junior Hameeda Tayiebur would say, though, students get much more than the credit.

It is founded on the basis of living a meaningful and mindful life, said Tayiebur, who is a double major in economics and business and international relations. My daily morning task is to make sure that as I step out of my room, I have chosen to live from the inside to the outside. This class is helping me get to the core of who I am and holding onto it instead of getting carried away or buried in random life occurrences. Im witnessing myself being calm regardless of whats going on and it is pricelessly precious.

The course mixes in a variety of practices including lower belly breathing, yoga, Qigong, and radiant heart compassion meditation for interpersonal healing.

One of the goals is to give students knowledge about how meditation and mindfulness can reduce negative thought patterns.

What were doing in this class isnt about trying to stop our thoughts, Quehl-Engel said. We practice noticing when we are hooked or swept away by the rushing river of a difficult thought or feeling. Then, with compassion, curiosity, and courageinstead of beating yourself up with judgments and self-reproachyou soften, then re-focus your attention on the breath or other focal point in order get back to the river bank to watch that difficult thought or feeling float by.

Another course objective is to establish an informal and ongoing awareness practice for their everyday lives.

Its said that for the typical person some 70% of our thoughts are worrying about the future or ruminating about the pastwhich means we arent fully and mindfully living in the Now, Quehl-Engel said. Whether its through seated lower belly breathing, or yoga, or walking meditation, or logging a daily gratitude, one of the other practices students try out in this class, we are cultivating that mindfulness muscle of living more in the now.

For Tayiebur, living more in the now is precisely what she learns from Quehl-Engel. Not only through the adjunct course but through a retreat led by the chaplain.

Every fifth block break for the past 23 years the college chaplain has taken about 15 students, faculty, and staff to New Melleray Abbey, which is a Trappist monastery nestled amid peaceful rolling farm fields near Dubuque, Iowa. The group stays there Wednesday afternoon through midday Friday.

Before I left, I was afraid of missing out on the WhatsApp statuses and other seemingly life-dependent stuff, Tayiebur said. And on the second day, a different type of fear kicked in. I realized that Im mostly striving to be present in the world while neglecting to be present in my life. The retreat gave me a wakeup call that I do not want to look back and wonder who lived my life or where it went.

The power of these hands-on learning opportunities are impacting how students approach their day-to-day lives and thats something that lasts long after a course or a retreat is over.

Students can sign up for the PSY 513 Mindfulness, Meditation, & Psychological Health adjunct class when they enroll for their other courses. It is recommended that first-year students wait until their second semester to enroll. Those interested in the retreat can contact the chaplain at cquehlengle@cornellcollege.edu.

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Adult Nurse Practitioner Jennifer Ahlquist (MSN, ANP-BC) will demonstrate basic mindfulness techniques for adjusting to the new normal of social distancing and virtual learning, including a virtual group meditation practice.

Wayne State Universitys Campus Health Center (CHC) is excited to announce its first webinar: Mindfulness Techniques to Cope with the Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic. This hour-long webinar will be led by Adult Nurse Practitioner Jennifer Ahlquist (MSN, ANP-BC), who will demonstrate basic mindfulness techniques for adjusting to the new normal of social distancing and virtual learning, including a virtual group meditation practice. The webinar will be held at noon on Thursday, June 18. Registration is available on the CHC's website.

Mindfulness is about being fully present and aware of our feelings, actions and reactions. It often involves meditation, but it can also be as simple as allowing your thoughts to wander unjudged after your morning cup of coffee. Ahlquist defines mindfulness as being all about present moment awareness. Its like a lens that helps us see each moment more clearly, experience our lives more fully and avoid getting caught up in our emotions, past ruminations, and future worries. She added that Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment.

Alquist said that mindfulness is especially important during the pandemic, which has caused each of our lives to change. With these changes has come fear, uncertainty, health issues, financial issues and social isolation. Mindfulness can be a valuable tool to help preserve mental health and promote wellness behaviors during these very stressful times.

Additionally, CHC Community Outreach Nurse Erika Blaskay said that webinars such as this are designed to help students interact and engage with the health programs that are relevant to our lives. She said she hopes the webinars encourage attendees to ask questions in real-time and in an environment thats convenient for them and conducive to their learning. She added that while webinars are a new tool for the CHC, they plan to develop more of them in the future if students find them useful or enjoyable.

To learn more or register, please visit CHC's website.

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Come join us live on Facebook/YouTube for a Meditation for Mental Health session. In this session you will learn Isha Kriya, a simple yet potent 12-18 minute practice that can help you to become meditative effortlessly.

This meditation is designed to bring you clarity, health, and joy. In a research conducted by the Harvard Medical School, this meditation has proven to reduce tension, anger, fatigue, confusion, and depression.

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June 28 marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when members of the LGBTQ community fought back when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. Each June, Pride Month is celebrated to commemorate the watershed moment that kicked off the modern LGBTQ rights movement. These memorable quotes from LGBTQ leaderson everything from intersectionality to being an allywill ring true all year round.

"There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until its simply the way things are."

From her "Never Doubt" speech at the Millennium March for Equality, 2000

"We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home. It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can't become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered-down versions of Black life in America. I need the ass-splitting truth to be told, so I will have something pure to emulate, a reason to remain loyal."

From Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, 1992

"Part of what my discomfort was, in the beginning, is that I wanted something that didn't exist. I wanted something that was so singular, a label that was so singular for me. I was so specialI was so different from everybody else I was meeting. And I wanted a different label. And I had to say, 'Charles, snap out of that. What are you talking about?' All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term bisexual is not only serviceable but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe thats the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference."

From an interview with Michelangelo Signorile about coming out as bisexual in his memoir Fire Shut Up In My Bones, 2014

"Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgender people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other's differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation."

From Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, 1992

"Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start."

From the essay "The Gay Athlete," published in Sports Illustrated, 2013

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

From a tape recording to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts's The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, 1977

"In light of Jamey's death, it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.

From a blog post in response to the death by suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, a bisexual teen and YouTuber, 2011

"Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselvesalong with the renewed courage to try them out."

From Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984

"Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended."

From In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, 1983

"I'd like to see the gay revolution get started, but there hasn't been any demonstration or anything recently. You know how the straight people are. When they don't see any action they think, 'Well, gays are all forgotten now, they're worn out, they're tired.' ... If a transvestite doesn't say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvestite, then nobody else is going to hop up there and say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvestite for them."

From an interview in Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, 1972

"Our strategy is how we copehow we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex, or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other."

From This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color, 1981

Everybody's journey is individual. You don't know with whom you're going to fall in love. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."

From an interview with Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch, 1969

"I don't want you to love me. I don't want you to like me. But I don't want you to beat me up and kill me. You don't have to like me, I don't care. But please don't kill me."

From a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, 2013

"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."

From his memoir Straight from the Heart, 1995

"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity."

From Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Internet Strikes Back, 2013

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We will meet up online to help heal ourselves and others. We will be working on practices of self healing, group healing, and meditation. Then a question and answer period following this workshop. We will start with an active meditation. Then move onto the first wave of energy: This is for helping release the past. Help separating it out so we can look at it more objectively to move on in our life.

The second wave: Is for balancing. Balancing the relationship between organs, balancing Chakras, the internal and external experiences and more.

The third wave: Is for easing the unknown. To discover our power to move forward and have peace with not knowing.

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Sometimes cute, sometimes irritating it might be a familiar occurrence at this point: A dog barks in the background of a video conference.

In this case, though, it's definitely cute, because the dog is River, a fluffy Bernedoodle who's certified in canine therapy. And her owner is Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's librarian.

"I'm going live, River. Please behave!" Diana Haneski yells lovingly to the pup one morning earlier this spring, the teacher quieting her special pet as she logs on to a Microsoft Teams meeting with her colleagues.

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, Haneski was leading morning meditation and mindfulness exercises in her media center. After, she felt the need to maintain that aspect of her routine for herself and her colleagues.

"Teachers are used to seeing each other every day in the hallway and during their lunch and during their planning," Haneski said. "And to not have that contact is difficult."

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Tuesday marked the end of a school year like no other in Broward County. And while this March's abrupt shift online disrupted all educators' routines, for survivors of the nation's deadliest high school shooting, the pandemic was also a triggering reminder of those traumatic disruptions of more than two years ago.

Meditating together virtually has helped relieve some of that stress.

"Eight o'clock. You can always count on her being there," said Melody Herzfeld, the school's drama teacher whose work helping her students cope with the aftermath of the shooting earned her special recognition from the Tony Awards in 2018.

Herzfeld said she wasn't open to virtual meditation when Haneski first offered. She was overwhelmed with the challenges of translating her classes online.

"I was like, 'Oh, I don't want to do meditation. I just want to figure this out. I need to know how to get on Zoom. I need to know how to do my grades,'" Herzfeld said.

"And all I really needed was someone to say, 'Okay, let's just take a minute for ourselves and just center ourselves,'" she said.

"She's been that for us," she said, referring to Haneski.

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Survivors of the massacre also find solace at Eagles' Haven Wellness Center, which opened last year in hopes of meeting the long-term mental health needs of the Parkland and Coral Springs communities.

"Right from the beginning when everything broke, we got working on putting things virtually," said Rebecca Jarquin, the center's program director.

Now that means a daylong schedule of virtual activities, including meditation, art therapy and exercise classes.

"Through the online format where you can come in virtually, we're still connected," Jarquin said.

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Have you ever heard of Doga?Its yoga with dogs! If you havent heard of this before, yes, its a thing and has actually been around for a while. If you are looking for ways to enhance the bond with your canine companion, you need to check this out!

Listen for FREE to this episode of the Wag Out Loud pawdcast where expert Be Solomon shares more details on the benefits of doing yoga and meditation with your dog, the how-tos, and precautions you should consider. And why not share that special bond you have with your dog with others? Ever thought about becoming a therapy team?

When you pay attention to the opinion, mood, and communication your dog demonstrates, you are honoring the fact that your pup is a being separate from you who has their own needs at any given moment.

To learn the easy ways to be truly present with your canine family members, tune in now and find true Zen together. Check it out! Your dog will thank you.

Wag Out Loud is the ultimate resource for the dog lover who is on a quest to provide the best care for his/her canine companion(s). We are the only show obsessed with canine health, nutrition and overall well-being so we invite you to check out the free podcast episodes, our awesome community, amazing online events, resources and more at https://www.wagoutloud.com/

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