Sentence examples for secular techniques from inspiring English sources

Compared with secular music, their style was conservative, but inevitably some of the newer secular techniques crept in and figured effectively in the music of the Counter-Reformation within the Roman Catholic Church.

Likewise, spiritual and religious counseling has traditionally steered away from secular techniques, leaving the treatment of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other more serious conditions to the medical community and maintaining their focus on faith-based approaches.

With Transcendental Meditation, this is probably because many of those who have researched it have also been personally involved in the movement; with mindfulness, the reasons are less clear, because it is presented as a secular technique.

Secular meditation techniques have been based on spiritual practices, with research indicating that the spiritual sources of these techniques can also be useful in shaping research questions.

But over the past few decades, spiritual and religious counseling has adopted more secular counseling techniques; this can be observed in training programs for clergy that incorporate more psychology classes and greater emphasis on the medical model.

This may proffer additional refinements within secular and therapeutic techniques but would also help build understanding of benefits of meditation for those whose practice has spiritual transformation as the primary goal.

She called her presentation "Khajuraho -- Temples of the Sacred and the Secular" and her technique derived from Bharata Natyam, one of the classical forms of Indian dance.

In the study groups of patients with lung lobectomy, LAR, and liver wedge resection, the length of hospital stay declined from 2008 to 2014; this could be attributed to secular improvements in surgical technique and the increased utilization of minimally invasive techniques in conjunction with the proliferation of prospective payment systems that incentivize hospitals to reduce LOS.

The educational component of this parallel culture, which Randall Stephens and I describe in detail in "The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age," contains strategies and techniques for undermining and even challenging secular culture, particularly science.

The different institutes use a range of techniques to predict the secular variation including physical versus mathematical extrapolations.

This is true of Buddhist traditions from where these secular mindfulness programs have borrowed their techniques.