Sunday, November 8, 2009
How to Create Less Stress
College is said to be the greatest time of your life. It is where you meet new friends, learn about yourself in many new ways and are completely on your own. There is another major thing that will happen to you while you are in college, though. It’s called stress, and it will make you feel like pulling your hair out, crying and even packing up and going back home. Stress is one thing everyone can relate to and has been through at one point or another. Although we know how we feel when we get stressed out, we never can seem to make ourselves feel better.
There are many things you can do to relieve stress, but some are more helpful than others. (More)
There are many things you can do to relieve stress, but some are more helpful than others. (More)
Source: Murray State News
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Can Stress-Reducing Transcendental Meditation Help CHD Patients Prevent Future Heart Attacks?
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides $1 million for new study at Columbia University Medical Center
The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death.
The 12-week "Randomized Controlled Trial of Stress Reduction in the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in African Americans," will be conducted at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The trial will examine 56 patients who have had a heart attack or bypass surgery, angioplasty, or chronic angina.
"For decades, stress has been implicated in the cause and progression of heart disease," said Robert Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., lead author and director of the NIH-funded Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention. "And while standard cardiac rehabilitation usually includes supervised exercise and lifestyle education, it does not usually include a formal stress reduction program. (More)
The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death.
The 12-week "Randomized Controlled Trial of Stress Reduction in the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in African Americans," will be conducted at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The trial will examine 56 patients who have had a heart attack or bypass surgery, angioplasty, or chronic angina.
"For decades, stress has been implicated in the cause and progression of heart disease," said Robert Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., lead author and director of the NIH-funded Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention. "And while standard cardiac rehabilitation usually includes supervised exercise and lifestyle education, it does not usually include a formal stress reduction program. (More)
Source: EurekAlert
Friday, November 6, 2009
Yoga Can Reduce Chronic Back Pain
Yoga may be more effective than standard treatment in reducing chronic low back pain in minority populations, according to a new study.
Individuals from low-income, minority backgrounds with chronic low back pain (CLBP) may be more affected due to disparities in access to treatment.
Although many CLBP patients seek relief from complementary therapies such as yoga, use of these approaches are less common among minorities and individuals with lower incomes or less education.
For the study, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center recruited adults with CLBP from two community health centers that serve racially diverse, low-income neighbourhoods of Boston.
They were randomly assigned to either a standardized 12-week series of hatha yoga classes or standard treatment including doctor's visits and medications.
As part of the trial, the researchers asked participants to report their average pain intensity for the previous week, how their function is limited due to back pain, and how much pain medication they are taking.
The yoga group participated in 12 weekly 75-minute classes that included postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. (More)
Individuals from low-income, minority backgrounds with chronic low back pain (CLBP) may be more affected due to disparities in access to treatment.
Although many CLBP patients seek relief from complementary therapies such as yoga, use of these approaches are less common among minorities and individuals with lower incomes or less education.
For the study, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center recruited adults with CLBP from two community health centers that serve racially diverse, low-income neighbourhoods of Boston.
They were randomly assigned to either a standardized 12-week series of hatha yoga classes or standard treatment including doctor's visits and medications.
As part of the trial, the researchers asked participants to report their average pain intensity for the previous week, how their function is limited due to back pain, and how much pain medication they are taking.
The yoga group participated in 12 weekly 75-minute classes that included postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. (More)
Source: hindustantimes.com
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Holistic Meditation Part 2
For our sakes, yours and mine, Ramana has given a location to this presence of the divine within. According to his experience, which will be discovered to be our experience also, if we search for it, that force is sporting in the spiritual heart of everyone. The spiritual heart is different from the blood pumping heart. This leading clue enables one to search for and discover the spiritual heart. Much has been discussed about this guidance regarding the location. Some ask, 'How can one locate God in a particular place?' Ramana himself provides the answer. Since one has identified himself with his body, it becomes necessary to specify God's presence within the body.
When one has identified oneself with the body and calls the body 'I' one has to find God's presence within the limits of the body. The fact is we are thinking we are this body. (More)
When one has identified oneself with the body and calls the body 'I' one has to find God's presence within the limits of the body. The fact is we are thinking we are this body. (More)
Source: One India
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Daily Inspiration
The Law of Attraction teaches us that 'what we vibrate, we attract'. Focus on joy, happiness, dreams, and blissful thoughts to create the same. This video was created to raise your frequency. When you need 'shifting' watch it, feel it, and be it.
BE THE CHANGE: 7 Women Who Are Transforming The World From The Inside Out
You must be the change you want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi so eloquently said. In other words, change has to start within ourselves; we cannot expect the world to change if we do not. Instead of focusing on the problems, we can start to live the solutions.
If we want more love in our lives, we must become more loving; if we genuinely want to end terrorism and to bring real and peaceful change to the world, then we have to change from being concerned with our own needs to reaching out and helping each other. As Ed often says, when we make peace with ourselves, there is one less person suffering.
For kindness and compassion to become a natural expression of who we are, we may need help, guidance, and support. Meditation in its many forms is the one method we have found that does all of this. When we get to know ourselves more deeply we discover that we are more than we thought we were, that we have the resources, strength, and wisdom to not only make changes but to become the change we so long for. (More)
If we want more love in our lives, we must become more loving; if we genuinely want to end terrorism and to bring real and peaceful change to the world, then we have to change from being concerned with our own needs to reaching out and helping each other. As Ed often says, when we make peace with ourselves, there is one less person suffering.
For kindness and compassion to become a natural expression of who we are, we may need help, guidance, and support. Meditation in its many forms is the one method we have found that does all of this. When we get to know ourselves more deeply we discover that we are more than we thought we were, that we have the resources, strength, and wisdom to not only make changes but to become the change we so long for. (More)
Source: Huffington Post
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