Daily Inspiration

To be able to be unhurried when hurried;
To be able not to slack off
When relaxed; to be able not to be
Frightened and at a loss for what to
Do when frightened and at a loss;
This is the learning that returns us
To our natural state and
Transforms our lives.

Liu Wenmin (early 16th cent)

Health Tip: Meditation Is a Peaceful State of Mind

Here are a few basic elements

There are many forms of mediation, most of which are rooted in ancient tradition. For many people, it's a great way to relax and soothe stress.

Here's a summary of meditation's common principles, courtesy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine:

Find a quiet place with little sound or distracting activity.
Find a position that's comfortable for you, including sitting, lying down, walking or standing.
Focus completely on meditation, which in practice may include repeating a word or phrase, focusing mentally on an object or focusing on breathing in a certain way.
Have an open mind and learn to acknowledge life's distractions without necessarily judging or acting on them.

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Daily Inspiration

Nowadays many have lost the old way,
and many try to usurp the style of Zen,
setting up their own sects, keeping to clichés,
and concocting standardized formulas and slogans.
Since they themselves are not out of the rut,
when they try to help other people, it is like
a rat going into a hollow horn that grows
narrower and narrower until the rat
is trapped in a total impasse.

Yuanwu (1063-1135)

Meditation Courses at School for Problem Pupils

Every secondary school has been invited to sign up to a transcendental meditation programme. The twice-daily programme, which was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1958 and whose followers include the musicians Sheryl Crow and Moby, will be offered to help schools tackle pupils' behaviour.

The Maharishi Foundation claims its techniques will calm pupils, make them more attentive to work and can even mitigate some of the problems experienced by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder sufferers.

But critics will say it is another step in the expansion of a multi-million-pound global empire built on the fees charged for training in the technique. (More)

Source: The Observer

Daily Inspiration

I have discarded the world of fame and profit.
How elegant is the morning sun
Shining on the rafters and eaves.
How cool are the terrace and pond after the rain.
I burn incense to break the deep silence,
And drink the spring water and relax in joy.
I penetrate into the wonders of Tao,
And chant ancient sutras.
When my mind is at ease, my spirit is gay.
When understanding is gained,
There is nothing left to comprehend.
Who can say that the realm of Tao is far from us?
How tranquil it is;
As at the beginning of Heaven and Earth.

Ni Tsan (1301 –1374)



- Ni Tsan (1301 –1374)

Meditation On My Mind

Stress is yours for the slaying. Just get the upper hand on what's in your head.
Although meditation has been described as a reflective mode of thought, a more accurate definition might be a mode of "no thought," not unlike that of an employee at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Our daily worries and chattering minds recede into the background and the pure energy of our own being comes through, letting us experience complete delight in living.

Yes, it does share many similarities with an alcoholic stupor, but without the morning-after breath. (More)

Source: Los Angeles Times

Daily Inspiration

Stillness is one.
It has no before or after,
No inside or outside.

Luo Hongxian (1504-1564)

Talking Up Enlightenment

Neuroscientists hear -- and applaud -- the Dalai Lama

Many years ago a curious boy looked through a telescope and, on seeing the shadows in the craters of the moon, realized that he had to make a choice. His religion taught him to respect the moon as a generator of light, but science taught him that the moon reflected the sun’s rays. The subtle clarification offered by science ultimately trumped the Buddhist interpretation for Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama. (More)

Source: Scientic American

Daily Inspiration

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relax Already: Meditate

Times are stressful lately, and while massages are a great way to unwind they can be a little hard on the pocketbook. Since money woes are creating enough stress on their own, it is great to find things that can help you unwind that don't cost a dime. Meditation is one such thing.

Meditation comes in many forms. You can focus on your breath, a single thought, or a mantra to clear your mind. You can also do guided meditation focusing your breath to different parts of your body, or guiding your imagination to a peaceful place. A great way to reduce stress, meditation is essentially about strengthening the relationship between your mind and body. How sweet is that? The goal is to quiet your mind by focusing on the moment, instead of your worries and stress. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

Find Your Purpose

If you want to find your true purpose in life,
know this for certain: Your purpose will only be
found in service to others, and in being connected
to something far greater than your body/mind/ego.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Stressed? 5 Quick Tips for Meditation in a Busy Schedule

With the pressures of bills, the job or the job hunt, the practices we most need to combat stress are the most neglected. We don't have time to exercise, to connect with friends or to meditate. But when you consider the risks of running yourself ragged - sickness, reduced energy and reduced resilience in the face of new challenges - we don't have time to neglect personal maintenance. And although research on meditation is still scattered (studies tend to focus on groups with specific ailments, like chronic pain or ADHD), thousands of "average" people can attest to the power of meditation in reducing pain, stress and depression while increasing their ability to focus and respond to challenges. (More)

Source: Ode Magazine

Daily Inspiration

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

Types of Meditation

There are many different kinds of meditation, and all elicit what Dr. Herbert Benson, director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Harvard University, has named the relaxation response. The relaxation response is in opposition to the body's stress or fight-or-flight response, and may help improve health conditions that are aggravated by stress, like heart disease, depression, insomnia, hot flashes and others. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

The Enlightened Hugger

Deeper Emotional Connections

It’s so easy to fall into a routine and fail to connect with the people we love. Even though I exchange daily doses of hugs with my friends and family, sometimes I’m guilty of going through the motions without much awareness of the moment. So every now and then I try to step back, slow down, and appreciate these expressions of love more fully. In one memorable instance, I used the “hugging until relaxed” technique to forge a deeper connection with my Mom.

I ran across David Schnarch’s “hugging until relaxed” exercise while reading Passionate Marriage for a counseling class. This technique extends hug time beyond the cursory embrace so that participants move beyond self-consciousness to relax into one another.

In addition to the technique’s application within a marriage, Schnarch writes about the impact of hugs in other relationships. One of his examples pertained to hugging his father twenty years ago, which he compared to “embracing a tree trunk.” As the years passed, Schnarch’s father softened by degrees. At the same time, he gradually became more relaxed when hugging his son. As the duration and relaxation of their hugs increased, they fostered a more open and affectionate relationship. The hugs both reflected and contributed to their growing closeness. (More)

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Daily Inspiration,

I work on my problems, and then I release them.

Anything that bothers you is only a problem within.
Only you can experience it, and only you can correct it.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Meditation Practice Can Quiet Worry

Most forms include a focus on how you are breathing

It used to be that Maribeth Riggins-Loy's biggest worries were getting her work done at the office and trying to lose 10 pounds. Now she finds her head churning with fears of "job security, the national and global economy, and what the future will hold for our country."

Riggins-Loy of Brentwood, Tenn., says she's increasingly turning to meditation to try to "quiet her mind." And according to local meditation instructors, she's in good company.

"What I'm seeing is that as the uncertainty of the economy gets worse, there's more interest in meditation to deal with stress," says Lisa Ernst, an instructor with One Dharma Nashville.

Studies have shown that the ancient practice helps to reduce anxiety, depression, pain, stress and insomnia.

There are a lot of ways to meditate. You don't have to chant "Om" in the wilderness -- unless you want to. Here are some different techniques. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

"No human relation gives one possession in another...
every two souls are absolutely different.
In friendship and in love, the two side by side
raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."

Kahlil Gibran

Floating Meditation Unique Experience

In the tank, my body bobbed in space. I couldn't tell where my limbs ended and the water began. Were my eyes open or closed? Was I drifting from side to side? After a while, I decided it didn't matter. I was floating.

"It's sensory deprivation, but in a good way," said Allison Walton, co-owner of FLOAT, Floatation Center-Art Gallery in Oakland. She gave me a 10-minute briefing before my float.

"It's really spending an hour with yourself," Walton said.

Floating is used as a form of meditation, as well as therapy for ailments of all kinds, especially back and joint pain.

The floatation pool is an enclosed tank with 800 to 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt dissolved in about ten inches of water, allowing for a person to float effortlessly on the surface. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

If we have no peace, it is because we have
forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that occurs after an experience causing real or perceived serious harm. The condition is characterized by four kinds of symptoms: Intrusional memories. Patients re-live the event through flashbacks and nightmares. The memory may be triggered by a sound or sight, like a car backfiring (representing gun fire or an explosion) or news of a crash or assault. The memories may be quite vivid and elicit the same sights, sounds, smells and feelings as the original event. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have.

Stop focusing on what you do not have,
and shift your consciousness to an
appreciation for all that you are
and all that you do have.

Dr Wayne Dyer

More ... ZAZEN ( That's ZEN MEDITATION ) IS ALL YOU NEED!

Master Dogen continues to tell us that "Zazen" ( that's Zen meditation ) is all we need ... enlightenment itself ...

And that means we don't need to bother with all that other Buddhist stuff ... like burning incense, ringing bells, bowing, chanting, worrying about the Precepts or even reading Buddhist books. All we need is Zazen, sitting on our cushion.

But ya know ... we are always working on a few different ways of seeing things here. So, at other times, Dogen reminds us, we think of Zazen 'Zen Meditation' in its wider meaning ... namely, all of life. At those times, 'Zen Meditation' also means burning incense, ringing bells, bowing, chanting, worrying about the Precepts or even reading Buddhist books.

Each action is, in that moment, 'Zen Meditation', and in that moment, all we need, a perfect act, the place to be.

See how that goes? (More)

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Daily Inspiration

Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Native American Relaxation

Daily Inspiration

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet
sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

Meditation Benefits Made Easy

Perhaps you have tried meditating, but fell asleep or composed a to-do list in your head. Consequently, you decided it wasn’t your style to sit in an uncomfortable lotus position or lie down on a yoga mat in corpse pose and do nothing. Face it: the simple truth is that you can’t sit still! As your endless to-do list keeps growing, you do things with a loose mind. It’s time to revisit the practice of meditation.

The benefits of meditation include: increased focus, improved immune and cardiovascular systems, less shallow breathing and better stress management. When you meditate regularly, the effects last longer than the short period after - even months. You become more positive and are able to reduce the powerful stress hormones which trigger an inflammatory response to both body and mind.

When it comes to meditation, one size does not fit all. You can meditate for five minutes or longer. Find your own style, time and place; tweak it along the way: (More)

Source: Examiner

California Kicks Off Mediation Week

The state Judicial Council, the governing body of the California court system, officially declared at a meeting in San Francisco on Friday that Mediation Week will be observed on March 15-21.

California Chief Justice Ronald George, who chairs the council, said, "Mediation programs offer the public an important alternative to resolving disputes outside the traditional adjudication system."

George added, "Mediation Week is an opportune occasion to educate the public about the availability and benefits of mediation programs, and to recognize the people who make those programs successful." (More)

Source: CBS5.com

Daily Inspiration

Look deep into nature, and then you
will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Misconceptions About Meditation

Through my own experience and from the things I have learned over the years I have experienced and come across many misconceptions about meditation. Some have been my own inner ramblings, others have been stories and lessons told to me by the many excellent teachers I have had the pleasure of learning from.

The first example that comes to mind is that the meditative experience should always be pleasant. I have known people who almost hide in their practice. This then can become delusion. Of course delusion is the thing that meditation is trying to break down. Dualism is the other main thing that a meditation practice tries to work through. That is we are separate from the rest of the material in the physical Universe. So of course along the way of realizing the oneness of everything, how we are all interconnected and that everything affects everything else, a lot of delusion will come up. It is a good thing to meditate to clear one’s energy, ground oneself and center oneself. But to depend upon meditation as an escape from life’s reality can become a huge road block. Life itself is not always pleasant, so how can one who trains to develop self awareness expect the journey to always be pleasant? (More)

Source: Examiner.com

Daily Inspiration

Don't aim for success if you want it;
just do what you love and believe in,
and it will come naturally.

David Frost

How to Beat Stress and Angst Through Meditation

There's nothing like economic calamity to focus the mind. But instead of obsessing over your job security or declining 401(k) balance, try diminishing your stress with a new assist from a very old tool: meditation.

Stretching back thousands of years to ancient spiritual traditions, meditation has been attracting a growing following of secular practitioners in recent years. While it's still not exactly mainstream, data released in December 2008 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an arm of the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), show that 9.4 percent of adults surveyed in 2007 had tried meditation at least once during the previous 12 months, a significant increase from 7.6 percent in 2002. And 1 percent of children had zoned in, too. (More)

Source: Sun-Sentinel

Daily Inspiration

You will find as you look back
upon your life that the moments
when you have truly lived are
the moments when you have done
things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Stressed Gazans Turn To Meditation After War

Deeply conservative Gaza isn't exactly fertile ground for New Age practices. But women in head scarves and men in suits flapped their arms with gusto while breathing in rhythm in what looked like a yogic chicken dance.

The recent scene in a hotel ballroom broke several cultural taboos, such as not letting loose in public, particularly in mixed company. But the dozens of counselors and social workers, stressed and overworked since the recent Gaza war, eagerly cast convention aside to learn about relaxation techniques.

"We are teaching very simple tools of self-care," said Dr. James S. Gordon, a psychiatrist who runs The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., and offers a parallel trauma program in Israel.

Since 2005, he's taught 90 Gaza health professionals who have reached thousands of patients with meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback and support groups in which participants express their feelings in words, drawings and dance. (More)

Source: The Associated Press

Daily Inspiration

I treasure my physical being.

Treasure your physical being
as a vehicle that houses your soul.
Once you have the inner way,
the outer way will follow.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Thinking Yourself Out of a Depression

THAT'S MEN: RUMINATION IS ruination, one of my teachers used to say. He thought it a very clever remark and he was right.

Rumination, or brooding, is a feature of depression. If you ruminate for long enough on things that are sad or upsetting, you have a good chance of thinking yourself into the blues or of prolonging the blues if you already have them.

The psychologist and writer David Reynolds, whose Constructive Living theory fuses eastern and western approaches, once decided to see if he could think himself into a depression. By sitting for days doing very little and thinking and thinking about negative matters, he found himself in quite a deep depression that took him some work to get out of.

Some psychologists suggest that depression is more common in women because they are more likely than men to ruminate on their troubles. But I have come across men who ruminate on their worries and failings or on the failings of the world to an excessive extent. This behaviour keeps them in a constant state of depression, anxiety or anger. (More)

Source: Irish Times

Daily Inspiration,

There's no time for confused thoughts.
Practice the meaning of single-mindedness.
Buddha isn't found by searching.
Look at the characteristic of your mind.
Generally, faith is like spring mist at first.
Be brave at the vanishing point.

Godrakpa (1170-1249)

Meditation Brings Truth to Light

One of the main purposes of meditation is to allow you to steady the mind – bringing it to such a state of equilibrium it is not swayed by either attraction (raga) or aversion (dvesha).

This process of consistent practice allows you to see in truth and in fact, there is no difference to the things, thoughts, feelings, etc. we draw toward ourselves or push away from ourselves.

The following is an effective Buddhist story that illustrates both the sameness of attraction and aversion, as well as equilibrium of mind at work:

Gautama Buddha was travelling through a village.

It was not long before word of his presence reached the villagers and they all rushed to greet him and seek his blessings. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

Be mindful of your thoughts, they become your words.
Be mindful of your words, they become your actions.
Be mindful of your actions, they become your habits.
Be mindful of your habits, they become your character.
Be mindful of your character, it becomes your legacy.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

Quiet Mind ~ Liquid Breath Water Meditation Class

Terry Miller, CST, is now offering a water meditation class at LilyPond Aquatic Therapies. Miller brings over 30 years of medical and holistic health care experience to LilyPond. Blending twenty years of medical nursing skills with CranioSacral, Trauma Release and Yoga therapies, her work facilitates the movement of one's mind and body from a contracted state of dis-ease to an open state of expansion and flow. The science of breath is an effective method for stress relief, pain management and overall wellness.

Miller is the host of the weekly wellness radio show on WRFR, "Living a Good Life with Terry Miller," and conducts retreat intensives at her home in Hope. She has an upcoming one-day retreat in March at LilyPond House. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

The Great Person from time past
Had no fixed abode,
In famed mountains hid his traces,
Grew old amid wind and frost.
From afar,
I know your white-rock hermitage,
Hidden in a haze
Of evergreen trees.
When the moon sets,
It’s mind-watching time;
Clouds arise
In your closed eyes.
Just before dawn, temple bells
Sound from neighboring peaks;
Waterfalls hang thousands of feet
In emptiness.
Moss and lichen
Cover the cliff face;
A narrow, indistinct path
Leads to you.

Chia Tao (779-843)

Manage Stress Using Quick, Easy Techniques

We know that when our computer locks up and can’t function that it’s time to turn it off for a break and then reboot. It’s a lot harder to realize sometimes that we need to do the same thing to ourselves, says Austin-based leadership trainer Chris Douglas.

Douglas is the founder of Quest Seminars (www.quest-leadership.com). He has conducted workshops on topics such as leadership, stress management and conflict resolution for clients such as Apple and Motorola.

He says that stress management doesn’t mean that we’re always totally relaxed: Some stress improves our performance, but we can’t pressure ourselves indefinitely. He talked to us about why hitting the pause button can be the most productive thing to do. (More)

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

Daily Inspiration

I am responsible for the day I create for myself.

The choice is up to you.
It can either be “Good morning, God!”
or “Good God—morning!”

Dr Wayne Dyer

The Meditating Prisoners: Transformative Silence?

'Sometimes the only way out," says Jenny Phillips, "is in." That's the jailhouse mantra at the Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Bessemer, Ala. The barbed-wire-wreathed bunker resembles the cheerless pen in The Shawshank Redemption except that at Donaldson, murderers serving life terms don't break out. At least not physically.

Mentally though, through a Vipassana meditation program introduced by Phillips in 2002, some Donaldson inmates are breaking the cycles of anger and revenge that got them there in the first place.

The Dhamma Brothers, a documentary chronicling the Donaldson experiment, will screen at 7:30 tonight at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. (Dhamma, the Pali form of the Sanskrit dharma, is the teachings of Buddha that lead to enlightenment.) (More)

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Daily Inspiration

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being and Mindfulness

The other night at a dinner party, a friend described how she tried to practice mindfulness meditation to keep herself from losing it during an utterly wretched seven-hour layover in an airport while she was exhausted, ill and desperate to get home to her children.
“I kept trying to be all ‘Be Here Now,’” she said, “but I just wanted to be anywhere but here.”
We all laughed.
Then she described how, on another day, she’d managed not to bite off the head of a woman who’d been gratuitously mean to her 8-year-old daughter, but instead had stayed in the moment and had connected and been able to join with the woman in an experience of their common, sadly limited, humanity.
At which point, full of congratulations (and suppressing my own story of having lost my temper with a woman in an airport bathroom who, I felt, had addressed my daughter Julia with an unforgivable tone of officiousness and disdain), I was beginning to wonder what body snatcher had taken my cranky friend away and left this kindly, calm, pod person in her place. (More)

Source: NY Times

Daily Inspiration

My mind is at peace.

A mind at peace, a mind focused
on not harming others,
is stronger than any physical
force in the universe.

Dr Wayne Dyer

Surviving Beatles unite to promote meditation

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr participating in fund-raising concert to benefit David Lynch Foundation program teaching meditation to kids


Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite on stage next month to raise money to teach transcendental meditation to children around the world to "help provide them a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world," McCartney said.

The star-studded list of performers who will join them include two musicians who were with the Beatles when they journeyed to India's Himalayan foothills in 1968 to learn transcendental meditation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

"In moments of madness, it has helped me find moments of serenity," McCartney said in the concert announcement.

Profits from the April 4 show at New York's Radio City Music Hall will fund the David Lynch Foundation's program, which has already taught 60,000 children around the world how to meditate, foundation spokesman Steve Yellin said.

The goal of the project -- which is called "Change Begins Within" -- is to teach the meditation technique to a million at-risk children so they have "life-long tools to overcome stress and violence and promote peace and success in their lives," Yellin said. (More)

Source: CNN

Daily Inspiration

Whether you are an innocent beginner or
seasoned adept, you must show some spirit!
Don't vainly memorize other people's sayings:
a little bit of reality is better
than a lot of illusion.
Otherwise you'll just go on deceiving yourself.

Yunmen (864-949)

Amazing Grace Performed By Il Divo

Close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths and just listen to this beautiful song.

Daily Inspiration

Students of today get nowhere because they
base their understanding upon the
acknowledgment of names.
They inscribe the words of stone dead
old guys in a great big notebook,
wrap it up in four or five squares of cloth,
and won't let anyone look at it.
"This is the Mysterious Principle,"
they aver, and safeguard it with care.
That's all wrong. Blind idiots!
What kind of juice are you looking f
or in such dried-up bones!

Lin-chi (d.866)

Learning to Relax by Paying Attention

Last week, while trying to get downtown to a conference on integrating stress-reduction techniques into mainstream medicine, I felt my blood pressure rising. I was stuck in traffic, made several wrong turns that took me to the opposite side of the city, and entered a parking garage that turned out to be full—all causing me to miss a much-anticipated keynote speaker. When I finally got to the conference, I couldn't get beyond my disappointment over missing the opening speaker and sat in the large lecture hall, halfheartedly taking notes and checking my BlackBerry every few minutes. Let's just say I wasn't fully present in the moment. (More)

Source: US News

Daily Inspiration

Follow the truth of the Way.
Reflect on it. Make it your own.
Live it.
It will always sustain you.
Do not turn away what is given you,
Nor reach out for what is given to others,
Lest you disturb your quietness.

Buddha in the Dhammapada

The Basics of Meditation

Mention meditation and most people conjure images of saffron-robed monks sitting behind monastery walls or in dark caves; The Buddha is known to have reached enlightenment by meditating; Meditating is for spiritual types. All are fact, but they aren’t the only facts about meditation.

Meditation comes in many forms. Zazen and Transcendental (TM) are the most commonly known. Putting them in contemporary perspective: In the Kung Fu television series, the hero practiced zazen (zuochan in Chinese). The Maharishi taught the Beatles TM. With the increasing popularity of Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies in America, it is zazen, or “just sitting” that is garnering interest. (More)

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Daily Inspiration

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the
average conscience a still, small voice says to us,
something is out of tune."

Carl Jung

Use Meditation, Mindful Eating for Healthy Body

While eating fast food has been linked to America's skyrocketing obesity rates, eating too fast also contributes to our national weight gain. It takes approximately 20 minutes from the time a person starts eating for the brain to signal that the stomach is full. So when we gobble down our food on the run, in a restaurant or in front of the TV, chances are we have consumed considerably more calories than our bodies need to feel satisfied and to function normally.

Wellness manager Cher Land of the Blount Memorial Wellness Center at Springbrook says that meditating before meals can help women consume less while also making the overall dining experience more enjoyable. "The eating meditation helps us engage all our senses before, during and after eating. Taking time to slow down and pay attention before we eat can help us see, smell, chew, taste and swallow our food and to take our time to feel satisfied." (More)

Source: The Daily Times