Posts Tagged ‘therapy’
Can meditation top medication?

Meditation didn’t appear to help much in relieving everyday problems such as stress, sleep problems, or substance abuse issues. And it appeared to be about as effective as other behavioral health strategies such as exercise, group therapy, and relaxation techniques for helping people cope with mood problems and chronic pain. Read more here…
Mindfulness Meditation: As Simple As Breathing?

Mindfulness is either on the cusp of something great, or risks becoming the latest self-help fad to perish from oversimplification. It has, without a doubt, improved my functioning with bipolar disorder. Read more here…
Meditations on pregnancy

Brewer, a reflexologist and Reiki master, hopes the book will help other expectant mums. Plans are underway for the meditations to be used in pregnancy meditation classes in the New Year. Read more here…
Swedish music therapy method for aged strikes chord in nursing homes

The Bunne method helps many elderly people stay healthy physically and mentally and avoid increases in the level of required nursing care, according to Gustav Strandell, the president of Maihama Club. The method is said to improve a person’s brain function, memory and voicing capacity. Read more here…
Meditation: Help may lie within us

Meditation may offer the same relief as antidepressants for people with symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to an analysis of previous findings on the practice. The analysis also suggested that meditation eased pain, though it was not clear which types of pain benefit most. Read more here…
Meditation better than antidepressants?

Study findings show that moderate evidence in the medical literature that mindfulness meditation programs show small improvements in anxiety, depression, and pain. For instance, the effect size for the effect on depression was 0.3, which is what would be expected from an anti-depressant. Read more here…
Meditation Can Help Manage Anxiety, Depression And Pain

The focus of mindfulness meditation is to train the brain to stay in the moment. To do this, practitioners are taught to let go of the regrets of the past as well as anxieties about the future. This study reviewed earlier research that evaluated the effectiveness of meditation for managing a whole range of medical conditions — from breast cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia to depression. Read more here…
For Depression Treatment, Meditation Might Rival Medication

A new review study, out yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine, finds that mindfulness meditation may rival antidepressants in easing the symptoms of depression. Read more here…
Study finds meditation’s health benefits are limited

Mindfulness meditation is a form of Buddhist self-awareness designed to focus attention – not judgement – to the moment at hand, the JAMA study said. “The evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation programs could help reduce anxiety, depression, and pain in some clinical populations,” it said. Read more here…
New Year, New You: The Power of Meditation
Through meditation you actually develop consciousness. In fact, by accessing your own unconscious you gather insight into your conflicts, and find the capacity and resources to meet them. Meditation is so powerful, that if I were dying and had only one gift to give to my family, it would be the word meditation. Read more here…