According to a story in London’s Daily Mail Reporter, January 21, 2009, women who stopped focusing on dieting and instead practiced yoga and meditation enjoyed long-term weight loss. “Women who meditated and did yoga lost an average of five and a half pounds, a New Zealand study found. “At the end of a two-year study, women who followed a program of yoga and meditation had lost weight and kept it off, while those who focused purely on exercise and nutrition had not.
Continue reading...4. February 2009
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) reports today that Zen meditation may help reduce sensitivity to pain. Researchers in Montreal compared pain responses in people trained in meditation and those who are not. In the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, Joshua Grant, a doctoral student in physiology at the University of Montreal and his colleague Prof. Pierre Rainville looked at how or why mediation might influence pain perception. Scientists recruited 13 Zen meditators with a minimum of 1,000 hours of practice to undergo a pain test. Their reactions were contrasted with 13 non-meditators.
Continue reading...20. January 2009
Today, all over the world, as Barack Obama prepares to take office as the 44th president of the United States, people are gathering to send him positive thoughts through meditation. “We’re doing this to raise the vibration of the planet and send peace, love and harmony to not only Barack Obama, but all of our world [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2009
Today is probably the first serious work day of the new year—and with it may come increasing pressures as the economy continues to slide downward. So what can you do to manage your stress? No surprise to regular visitors to this blog—you can meditate to relive your tension and worries. Even if you’re new to meditation, [...]
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19. February 2009
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