Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Different from other forms of meditation such as Transcendental Meditation which focuses on a word. Sri Chinmoy meditation is "heart-centered," Fishman says. He explains that the method of meditation involves a "process" by which one learns to concentrate, usually by fixating on a candle flame. Eventually meditation comes in and then "imagery...
...word shalom; a Greek chants "Kyrie eleison " (Lord have mercy upon us); a Catholic recites the prayer "Lord Jesus have mercy "; others evoke the response by listening to soothing tapes of ocean waves. "As long as one can become passively unaware of the outside world," says Benson, "the method is not important...
Regaining that sense of being in control is the principle behind another psychological technique designed to aid cancer patients. Devised by Fort Worth Radiologist Carl Simonton, the method requires the patient to imagine his tumor cells being hunted down and devoured by white-knight-like defender cells. Bizarre as it seems, the technique
...master of the Socratic method, he has taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He is chairman of the board of editors for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of 30 books. His newest: How to Speak / How to Listen. With Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins, he compiled the Great Books of the Western World, 54 volumes of the world's classics. Last year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement...
...Unlike the careful and uniform script once taught in the schools, like the one based on the hallowed Palmer method, handwriting today is sloppy and therefore more individualistic. That makes it more difficult for forgers to emulate and easier for document analysts to spot variations from the genuine article...