I'VE often told people that traveling by bicycle isn't the contemplative, mind-meandering activity that it is generally presumed to be.
What can help is quieting the mind, a skill that we can hone through reflective, contemplative mindfulness practices.
Educators and researchers are exploring the use of contemplative or mindfulness-based approaches to teaching and learning to reduce stress, enhance classroom climate, and help students calm their bodies and minds, open their hearts and focus their attention.
The opposition of exuberance and constraint also implies that the screen is a divider between contrasting moods, with a boisterous attitude on one side and a contemplative frame of mind on the other.
CLEVELAND — After an hourlong private yoga lesson here, hanging upside down from ropes on the wall and stretching into positions that sometimes left him gasping for breath, Franz Welser-Mösthethe music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, was in a contemplative state of mind.
While many people around the world celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden this week, Cecil Birnbaum found himself in a contemplative frame of mind.
You're in a contemplative state of mind where your ego is not tied to the material life but more to how you can be of benefit to the mass collective of all people.
The scientists expected that those in a more detached, contemplative state of mind would be more likely to seek out this important health information -- rather than hide from it.
Joel and Michelle Levey are regarded as pioneers in the global "mindfulness revolution," "the international compassion movement," and work to integrate contemplative science and contemporary mind-fitness training in leading organizations in modern times.
Tensions naturally arise — between the contemplative and the analytical mind, and between art and nature.
