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PostHeaderIcon Mindfulness meditation offers way to slow down life

Susan Sweetwater holds her cat, Henry, while relaxing at her Bremerton home. She’s learned to combat pain with mindfulness meditation.  - Leslie Kelly

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PostHeaderIcon Meditation alone doesn’t lower blood pressure: study

A couple stand on a rock facing the sunset along the shores of English Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia July 23, 2013. REUTERS/Andy Clark

Mindfulness participants went to eight weekly group sessions and attended a day-long silent retreat. Each person was also asked to practice stress reduction for 45 minutes daily. This doesn’t mean that meditation is bad. It just simply doesn’t lower blood pressure,” senior author Dr. Sheldon Tobe of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, said. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meditation for wellbeing

Meditation is a way of cleaning the mind, washing it from within, so that you can be calmer, clearer and happier. Without meditation, the restlessness of the mind affects you on all levels and prevents you from connecting with the joy within you. Meditation frees you from tension and brings back your smile. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon The Best Yoga Moves For Any Situation

The promises of yoga are sometimes almost unbelievable: You’ll be fitter, slimmer, more energized! You’ll sleep better, boost your mood, lengthen muscles, improve flexibility and have a better sex life! Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Expert introduces mindfulness meditation to Montgomery Co. students, parents.

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The benefit of mindfulness is so clear that it enables people to reduce stress and make decisions from a much more rational mindset,” says Brach, who is also an author and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Tai Chi: Moving Meditation

Tai chi is a holistic approach to cultivating body and mind, according to Weng. Because tai chi addresses the mental and spiritual aspects of being in addition to the physical aspects, it is a holistic discipline that can be applied to daily life “that can make life meaningful,” Weng said. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Loving-Kindness Meditation and Change

Where many meditation techniques encourage students to explore difficult feelings or emotions directly, in loving-kindness the invitation is to send well wishes to oneself (who is in distress) as well as the other (who we feel distress toward). Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon How daily meditation can improve your health

How daily meditation can improve your health

Meditation can help prevent stress and slowly release pent up stress. With reduced anger, low stress levels and increased capacity at work, you will feel you can complete a lot more in your day. With a clear mind, you can think of ways objectively. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Yoga, meditation and exercise reverses aging process, doctors say

Specifically, test subjects had to consume a balanced diet, with plenty of fruit and vegetables, walk at least 30 minutes each day, for six days of the week, and reduce stress levels by taking up yoga and meditation. On top of this, subjects were part of an hour-long support session, which took place once a week. Read the rest here…

PostHeaderIcon Emotional Understanding

Photo: Meditation For The Week-04*********************************Emotional Understanding*****************************This meditation requires no specific time,whenever you feel filled with any emotion,try it.This simple meditation will restore emotional balance and harmony within and brings out emotional understanding and grounding.Accept your every emotion and don't try to escape...then feel your aliveness through every emotion.Feel every emotion without any discrimination of desirable or undesirable,enter into that emotion with the totality of your being,try to bring intense aliveness there.Let any emotion surface and flow on its own accord,neither try to sustain it nor try to avoid it.Every emotion is energy in motion,when you attach your aliveness there you get glimpse of your boundless consciousness.If you let this meditation happen,soon you will see that you are above and beyond your emotions,which is a great showering of benediction.-Anant Sri

This meditation requires no specific time,whenever you feel filled with any emotion,try it.This simple meditation will restore emotional balance and harmony within and brings out emotional understanding and grounding. Read more here…

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