| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | sich nach innen versenken | | English translation: | to sink inwards | | Entered by: | Misscarpone |
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Art/Literary - Religion / spirituality, meditation | | German term or phrase: sich nach innen versenken | | Term used in spiritual context/ meditation to describe the experience of focusing the attention on inner sensations/experiences and by this "sinking" deeper/inside. |
| MisscarponeNot a translatorKudoZ activityQuestions: 1 (none open) Answers: 0
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| | to sink inwards | Explanation:
Did you try googling for:
"sink inwards" + meditation |
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Audrey Foster
United States
| Grading comment | I'm new to KudoZ and am overwhelmed at the response. Big thanks to everybody who anwered me, all answers were useful, and this is what I find most fitting. Thank you. |
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1 hr confidence: | to sink into oneself
Explanation:
I cannot find the phrase in any dictionary, but it's definitely in use, e.g.
‘Getting Distracted – once you have arrived at the decision to take the time for yourself, if you can’t **sink into yourself** on command and you let the sounds and urgencies of others take over, you are still not showing the self-respect required to develop strong meditation skills.’
http://www.articlejunkie.com/articles/WhyIsMeditationSoHard....
‘So now, I'd like you to take a few deep breaths, and let your whole body relax, and as you let yourself go, breathing in and out, in and out, as you go to the place where breathing in meets breathing out, as you **sink into yourself**, allow your mind to travel, back in time, to the first time you met Peggy.’
http://www.ritualwell.org/lifecycles/growingolder/sitefolder...
‘To call it a method is not right, because there is no method, just sit not doing anything. Zen says the same as Ashtavakra is saying: Sit down! Sit for a while and relax. Leave this turmoil for a while. Leave all ambition a little while. Leave the mind's running around, leave its rat-race. Simply sit a while, and **sink into yourself**.’
http://www.oshoworld.com/onlinebooks/BookXMLMain.asp?BookNam...
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Asker: Thank you for all the new places to look for fitting vocabulary, will definitely use it!
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 | focus inside/let your focus go inside
Explanation:
I used to do meditation and this is the term mostly used. The type of meditation I did (Vipassana) focused on the breath and sensations in the body. Hope that helps.
|  RegineMac
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