Meditation and its benefits

Meditation is the same effective simply sitting on a chair 
or in a bed, which makes it perfect for people with 
stiff legs or bad backs.

Some positions for meditation


At your meditation class you can practice any position.



Physical And Mental Benefits Of Meditation

 Stress Control Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure
Meditation is the major component of 
Ornish therapy, a treatment scientifically proven  
to reverse heart disease.

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The effects of meditation are brilliant

Most of the people who get on meditation do so because of its beneficial effects on stress. Stress refers to any or all the various pressures experienced in life. These can come from family, work, environment, illness, bullying, loneliness to mention a few, and fuel such conditions as anxiety, hypertension, and heart disease. Meditation helps to handle stressful situations, rather
then being handled by them.

Research has shown that hormones and other biochemical compounds in the blood indicative of stress tend to decrease during Meditation practice. These changes also stabilize over time, so that a person is actually less stressed bio 
chemically during daily activity.

The reduction of stress influences the nervous system directly and the benefits are a positive reduction of anxiety and tension. hundreds of studies have confirmed this. 
 

Pain Management

Chronic pain can systematically erode the quality of life. Although great improvements are being made in traditional medicine to treat recurring pain, treatment is not always as simple as prescribing some medication.

For example when faced with an illness, there can be anxiety which by its very nature creates more negative emotions and also fear. This can be a vicious cycle, people under stress experience pain more, which can result in increased stress and so on. Meditation can help and break the circle.

Meditative techniques are also a very helpful element, easing arthritis. Meditation may
 not take the pain away, but it does 
help people to cope better. 

 

Infertility
Infertility can make couples depressed, anxious and angry. Relaxation responses from Meditation  help such stressed out couples, ,as they begin to experience less distress and are more likely to be successful.

Illness
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcers, and Insomnia
Meditation can also improve irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, and insomnia, among other stress-related conditions. Eighty percent of the people who use meditation to relieve insomnia are successful.
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Anxiety and Headaches
Meditation can help prevent or treat stress-related complaints such as anxiety, headaches and bone, muscle and joint difficulties. Meditation also provides an inner sense of clarity and calm, and that, in itself, may help ward off certain illnesses.

Anxiety
Meditation can help most people feel less anxious and more in control. The awareness that meditation brings can also be a source of personal insight and self-understanding. 

Handling Repressed Memories 
Meditation may lead to a breakdown of screen memories so that early childhood abuse episodes and other traumas suddenly flood the mind, making the patient temporarily more anxious until these traumas are healed. Many so-called meditation exercises are actually forms of imagery and visualization that are extraordinarily useful in healing old traumas, confronting death anxieties, finishing 'old business', learning to forgive, and enhancing self-esteem.

Depression
Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and isolation are hallmarks of depression—the age's most prevalent mental health problem. Meditation increases self-confidence and feelings of connection to others. Many studies have shown that depressed people feel much better after eliciting the relaxation response.

Panic Attacks
Sometimes anxiety becomes paralyzing and people feel (wrongly) that they are about to suffer some horrible fate. Panic attacks are often treated with drugs, but studies show that if people who are prone to panic attacks begin focused, meditative breathing the instant they feel the first signs of an episode, they are less likely to have a full-blown panic attack

Meditation frees persons from tenacious preoccupation with the past and future and allows them to fully experience life's precious moments. Many men and women tend to live in a state of perpetual motion and expectation that prevents them from appreciating the gifts that each moment gives us. 

Meditation is a process that returns us to the present moment of our lives and allows us to wake up and reevaluate the way that we live our lives. 


Peter Michaels  BA HYP Hypnotherapist  
Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP, Hypnotherapy,
Mind Shaping, Emotional Freedom Technique EFT,
Creative Visualization Therapy, Deep Relaxation 

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