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Many people began meditating during lockdown, seeking inner peace and harmony, and as lockdown restrictions lift, they intend to continue. At both the religious and secular heart of meditation is a focus on breath, which is particularly poignant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing attention on breathing is common to Hindu and Buddhist practices and to Jewish, Christian, and Sufi traditions. They all offer different meditative techniques, including chanting, meditating on visual artforms and sitting in silence, alone or in groups. Religions have their different approaches to prayers and worship, but meditation illustrates that there are also significant commonalities. It is sometimes assumed that meditation only exists in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, but meditation also is rooted in the Abrahamic faiths. In Judaism Abraham Maimonides commented that the biblical prophets “did not prophesy at will. Rather they focused their minds and sat joyfully and contentedly in a state of medita...

What is The Myers-Briggs Indicator Test? Many people have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator at some point in their life. The Myers-Briggs is used a great deal to help people understand their personality, particularly in work organizations to help employees understand how they differ from their coworkers.  It helps people recognize differences in how people approach situations and problems and thus helps people work together more effectively. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is, as its name indicates, a type indicator. It tells you what type of person you are on four characteristics: extrovert vs introvert, sensing versus intuition, thinking versus feeling, and judging versus perceiving.  You don’t need to understand what those terms mean, but after people take the Myers-Briggs, they get a four letter code that tells them which of 16 types they are. If you have taken the Myers-Briggs, you can probably remember your type—you’re an ISTJ, an INFP, an ESTP, or whatever, and that...

The trait of openness involves the degree to which people are generally open or receptive to all sorts of things.  This isn’t about interpersonal openness—being open in how you interact with other people—but rather an intellectual and experiential openness or receptivity to new things.  Stargazing at night to appreciate the beauty of the universe and enjoying the experience.  Openness to Experience Openness, as it applies to this trait should be interpreted as something like receptivity, as in the sense of being open to trying a new experience or being receptive to a new idea. Now we come to the fifth and final trait of the big five: openness or sometimes researchers call it “openness to experience.” The term, openness, as it applies to this trait should be interpreted as something like receptivity, as in the sense of being open to trying a new experience or being receptive to a new idea. People who score high in openness are more intellectually curious and imaginative th...