May 20
Did you know that doctors are prescribing meditation more often to their patients? Doctors are beginning to realize the importance of meditation on the overall health as well as the effect on quality of patients’ life.
I find myself incredibly stressed and yet unmotivated these last few days. Each and every task I do, I have been doing because I have to. It is as simple as that. Easter is over, summer seems so far on the horizon, and there is just not enough coffee in the world.
This is spring, right? And it follows after Easter, right? And the word of the day is resurrection, and we are all supposed to be infused with hope and happiness and crawling out of our tombs and embracing the new life we find all around us, and…
Not that I mean to make this into a rant, but there is also just a whole lot of bad news still floating around. While Haiti slowly ekes out existence, Japan is sinking. While tornados devastate the States, the water keeps rising on all of our rivers. The Mayans say the world is ending in just a few months and I heard recently that we don’t even have till the end of May.
So what do you do? How do we cope with times like this? Because I know that all of us have moments like this. Perhaps it really is the rain, it would be convenient to be able to say so; because none of us really wants to admit that life and the way we live it is just too darn stressful.
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May 13
Meditation not only can enhance your physical but as well as your mental health; in addition, it can also help to reduce stress.
Meditation comes in many forms and is used for everything from pain relief to those who want a more centered self. Donald Dicken, resident of Cumberland and a 30-year member of the Science of Spirituality and member of the Unitarian Universalist church, believes that it in addition to providing pain relief and stress management, meditation is present in every form of religion.
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Mar 01
Tai Chi is not only a good exercise that can enhance your health; it’s also a meditation practice that can relieve stress.
Clad in identical loose-fitting gray uniforms bearing patches of yin and yang and resting cranes, a small group of students were practicing Tai Chi one chilly winter night at the Asbury United Methodist Church fellowship hall.
With their legs bent and anchored firmly to the ground, the students simultaneously began moving their arms in the sweeping motions of the centuries-old Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan.
Roughly translated as “absolute fist,” Tai Chi Chuan, or simply Tai Chi, is a Chinese martial art that incorporates a flowing series of slowly-paced hard- and soft-style defensive movements. Signified by the yin and yang symbol of opposite and equal forces, Tai Chi hard- and soft-style movements are characterized by a mixture of crisp, linear movements with softer, circular motions.
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Aug 27
Recent research has shown that a Chinese inspired meditation can greatly enhance brain function which can greatly improve mind-body awareness.
A CHINESE-influenced meditation technique appears to help the brain regulate behaviour after as little as 11 hours of practice, according to a study released Monday.
Researchers at the University of Oregon and Dalian University of Technology charted the effects of integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a technique adapted in the 1990s from traditional Chinese medicine and practiced by thousands in China.
The research to be published in the upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences involved 45 test subjects, about half of whom received IBMT, while a control group received relaxation training.
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