John G. Cottone, PhD
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Meditation & Yoga
In this guided meditation by Dr. John Cottone, you will be invited to bring mindful awareness to a series of physical and perceptual sensations - from your breathing to the sounds you hear and other parts of your subjective experience. This exercise can be useful in helping you to relax, build mindfulness, and even fall asleep.
In this progressive relaxation exercise by Dr. John Cottone, you will be invited to bring mindful awareness to each part of your body, from your feet to your head, flexing and releasing each of your muscles. This exercise can be useful in helping you to relax, build mindfulness, and even fall asleep.
Meditation & Yoga
The Sand Mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically destroyed once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. Sand mandalas traditionally take several weeks to build, due to the large amount of work involved in laying down the sand in such intricate detail. It is common that a team of monks will work together on the project, creating one section of the diagram at a time, working from the center outwards. The destruction of a sand mandala is also highly ceremonial. The sand is collected in a jar which is then wrapped in silk and transported to a river (or any place with moving water), where it is released back into nature. For this reason, the materials keeping with the symbolism are never used twice.
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