Meditation techniques, are often combined with pranayama and Yoga asanas, help bring the mind to states of tranquility. They will lower your stress and anxiety levels. Ultimately, they will connect you with the simmering divinity at the core of your own being.
Much has been written about the benefits of both yoga and meditation for a healthy body and mind. Meditation is a powerful tool to clear and calm your mind and it also has many beneficial effects on the body. Yoga is a system of movements and postures which has developed over many centuries and works to integrate body and mind.
By Gopi Rao Let’s look at how to teach mindfulness meditation to reduce stress. Of course, Mindfulness meditation will teach you to help your clients or students cope with the daily challenges that create an atmosphere of stress. Moreover, stress is a part of life. To a greater or lesser extent, stress is pressure on …
As the practice of meditation becomes well known in mainstream culture, the discussion over what it means and how it is done becomes…
n order to silence the ego; it is necessary to understand what the ego is. Let’s start with what the ego is not. Within Yogic…
In addition to limited research on the benefits of Yoga, scientists have studied the effects of other techniques, such as meditation and biofeedback, on heart rate variability. Some studies show that an action as simple as placing our hand on our heart and feeling a state of gratitude can aid in stabilizing the autonomic nervous system and regulating the heart beat.
Many studies have recently shown, much to the delight of the yoga community, that mindfulness meditation is scientifically verified to help reduce anxiety. It is sometimes called mindfulness-based stress reduction, or MBSR, when studied in a scientific setting, but it is a mindful form of meditation through and through.
If stress leads to aging, then a mind filled with stress may age more quickly. As we’ve probably experienced for ourselves, our aging mind seems to stop remembering names, dates, where we put our keys or that we meant to drop by the grocery store on the way home.
Meditation creates a space for addicts to examine the events that trigger their cravings, to observe their reactions, and to substitute…
The following is a Yoga meditation story and an experiment for pet owners. The common practice is to leave pets aside while meditating. It has been my observation that most pets tend to approach us calmly, while we are meditating.