Then the pace grew meditative: long camera takes, historical texts read in voice-over.
The UK's Andy Sheppard, whose sax sound has grown increasingly meditative and oblique, represents an even sharper contrast with the man who stands next to him, trumpeter Lew Soloff, an American with an engagingly old-style bravura.
Another brain area that is highly activated in meditators and that actually grows larger with meditative practice, is the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).
But the research adds to growing evidence that meditative practices can alter the body at a fundamental level even, it turns out, at the level of our genes.
While technology often seems to move at the speed of light, books grow like trees do: slowly, meditatively.
Mr. O'Connor's folk-tinged score grows sweeter and more meditative, and Ms. Tharp gives John Selya an elegiac moment or two.
After the first volcanic slurps, the strippaggi grew softer and more meditative, and took on personal notes, the marquess's wheezy and almost wistful, Zaramella's deep and wet, as if he were gargling Epsom salts.
In Zen, a contemplative sect in Japan that grew out of Chinese Chan ("meditative") Buddhism (both "Chan" and "Zen" are corruptions of the Sanskrit dhyana, "meditation"), adherents attempted to cultivate themselves through strict discipline and training in quasi-yoga intuitive methods, without priestly intervention or divine grace, in order to attain a sudden flash of enlightenment (satori).
Eswaran, whose 9-year-old, $700 million (sales) company has interests ranging from e-commerce to ecotourism and interactive marketing, is a Malaysian who grew up in a meditative Hindu tradition that reflected his family's Indian origins.
Despite a growing body of evidence for meditative movement practices to improve symptoms among BCSs, few studies have explored using Qigong/Tai Chi to reduce fatigue.
