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Mindfulness Can Help Rebuild a Better World

There is no hiding the fact that our world is broken. We are currently on the path to annihilation. We have an unprecedented global pandemic, a raging climate crisis, and an ignored humanitarian situation. The Covid-19 virus has shown that we are ill-equipped to handle emergencies. Millions have lost their jobs, their healthcare plans, their loved ones. Yet most of us need to keep functioning as usual. We barely take a moment to listen to those who are being systematically ignored and oppressed, those from weaker economic and social backgrounds. This moment is a defining one for all of us and yet it finds us wanting.   As much as we preach unity this is the time to show it. This is the moment of decisive action to offer proof of the interconnectedness of all natural life. But, most of us still seem asleep, unaware of the magnitude of suffering that surrounds us. They need to be woken up and mindfulness is that waking call.   Here’s how being mindfulness meditation can lea...
Can Fitbit and Apple Watch Do What Dhyana Does?   Dhyana began as a scientific project to capture heart rate variability. The link between heart rate variability (HRV) and the Autonomous Nervous System (ANS) has been well established, with the scientific community agreeing that high frequency variations in heart rate variability correlated to less stress. We were tasked by a German multinational to look into HRV in those who meditated. While there was a lot of research already conducted, they had requested us for more data for an analytical study on the affects of meditation. While working on this project we began by looking tools for acquiring this data. To do so, we visited the Hong Kong Trade Development Conference in 2017 and were offered many smart watches, which could calculate heart rate. Apart from hundreds of Chinese watches we also had the Apple Watch, FitBit, Garmin, Goquii, MiBand, Honor Band and so on. These devices also started to give us heart rate data; but as we co...