Meditation and Stress
Posted by Doug | Filed under Pick the Brain
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The Pick the Brain website continues to publish great articles, and to think I nearly missed this one! A couple of days ago, the site had a post about how meditation improves health part 2. I reported earlier my responses to part 1. Part 2 looks at how meditation can improve the body’s reaction to stress.
The article claims that meditation helps ward off the negative effects of stress by taking the mind and the body out of the stressed state and into a relaxation response. This is a much more beneficial state for the body to be in and it helps reduce and control the release of unwanted hormones that are released during stress.
Meditation also, it seems, enables your body to utilise less oxygen and lower heart rates. It also has an effect upon brain wave functioning, similar in a way to the mind and body entering sleep.
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Advantages of an Economic Downturn
Posted by Doug | Filed under Pick the Brain
Here’s an optimistic article from the Pick The Brain blog about how to use the economic downturn to advantage. Do not get the wrong idea, this is not an article about exploiting the misfortune of others nor is it an article about spivving or the black market.
This is an article that gives some good tips for things to do during a period of ecominc hardship. These tips include, Connect With Your Loved Ones, Rethink Your Priorities, Consider Alternative Careers and Do Something Socially or Religiously Relevant among others.
The tips are very worth while and the author goes into some detail about why and how you could do them. For me the first of the tips listed above is a very important one. It has been shown that economic and financial pressures also put pressure upon relationships, connecting more closely with your loved ones could help ease that pressure and help you get through any economic downturn.
The author states that “some people survive and come through victorious and some don’t”, this can be especially true of times of economic difficulty. It is evident that it will be people who can adapt that will be the most likely to survive difficult economic times. As the author again says, “You are victorious when you can use even adversity to your advantage.”
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How Meditation Helps
Posted by Doug | Filed under Pick the Brain
There’s a cracking good post on the Pick the Brain blog today about how meditation improves your health.
It claims that meditation can;
- assist healing, and
- help you stay healthy
What more could you ask for?
As someone who has long been a fan of meditation, I am not surprised by the finding talked about in the article and it is always pleasing when meditation gets a good airing. So I urge anyone to go along to the blog and read the article. I feel sure that after reading it you will want to learn about meditatio techniques.
Meditation is increasingly being accepted in the West as well as in East where it originates. Mainstream medical doctors are now accepting that it can have benefits in the healing process. A great number of the modern afflictions of our modern western society can be ameliorated by meditation, conditions such as high blood pressure, insomnia, fatigue, headaches, gastro-intestinal problems, infertility, sexual problems, and anxiety attacks, … phew there’s a lot there, I feel almost better already!
This article is just the first in a three part series, if the rest are as informative as this one, then they will all be well worth reading.
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