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Do You Trust Meditation?

Since I’ve started meditating as part of my routine to de-stress, I’ve read some interesting stuff about meditation.

I’ve found that there’s a lot of mystery surrounding the art – most of which is unfounded.

It does work, however, and I’m beginning to discover new areas of my psyche that I’d forgotten (or never known) about.

Oh, and I’m also feeling more relaxed!

I’ve just downloaded a whole batch of mp3s from meditainment. I love these recordings for meditating, relaxing and for personal development. There’s even some nice relaxing music which I’m studying as I compose music myself (www.alanjmoore.com). Maybe I need to chill out a little more!

If you’re interetsed in these recording, click here:

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Here’s some more jottings about meditation from the web.

Why not give meditation a go yourself?

Learn Meditation Techniques For Better Health

Did you know that by practicing one of several different types of meditation techniques on a regular basis, you can help alleviate pain, improve your health and improve your mood immensely. Here I want to show you that if you can spend …

Resurrection Meditation

When praying the rosary it is important to meditate upon the mysteries for the day. Yesterday, being Sunday we said the Glorious mysteries. The first mystery is the resurrection. My meditation centered on Mary Magdalene. …

Meditation found to increase brain size

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. …

Monday, June 30, 2008 – Beginners Yoga and Meditation

Are you interested in yoga and meditation but don’t where to begin? Do you want a safe and welcoming environment for exploring the basics? This class is an enjoyable and effective way to discover the many benefits yogaand meditation …

How Osho sees meditation

“Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. it looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead. …

That’s all for now!

Alan

Relax with TV Dolphins

Brenda Burger has devised a method of relaxation that enables her customers to swim with the dolphins.  The twist?  Well, it’s in the middle of the desert!

As the owner of the La Quinta Healing Arts spa, Burger recently added a new method of relaxation called Virtual Dolphin Therapy.

Situated in one of the three rooms in Burger’s business in La Quinta, dolphin therapy entails lying on a specially designed, water-filled sound wave table with a flat screen television overhead that projects film footage of a pod of dolphins synchronized with music.

I don’t know about you, but this sounds a fantastic way to relax.

Wonder when the technique will be available for home use?

Alan

Read more here: Dolphin Therapy

Stress Management Tips

Here are some top stress management tips from the web to help get you through the day.

Read through the posts and implement the ideas…

Top Stress Management Tips for the Workplace

Another simple stress management tip for the workplace is to organize workplace group outings, where you and your coworkers can connect on a personal level, and leave work behind for an hour or two. This will help you understand your …

Recognizing the Symptoms of Panic Attacks – What Everyone Should Know

By Sondra Millard. The onset of panic attacks can be as sudden as it is disabling. When you experience one you may feel as though you are having a heart attack or going insane. The good news is that even though the symptoms feel genuine …

Stress Management Through Time Management

Stress and bad time management are so intertwined that it’s almost impossible to talk about one without talking about the other. I’m not saying All stress is caused by time management but I am saying a good portion of our stress seems …

Stress Management – How To Avoid The Ruts And Holes Of Life

Have you ever noticed how we keep falling into the same holes and ruts in life? We know something doesn’t work and yet we keep doing the same things over and over again. Have you ever wondered why we do this? …

Personal Stress Management: Get Rid Of Stress In Your Own Way

Personal stress management involves making your own routines that will allow you to cope with problems and avoiding a possible occurrence of stress in your daily life. Here are some tips on how to get rid of stress in your own personal …

Some great advice, isn’t there?

Now, manage that stress ;-)

In Pursuit of Relaxation

As a teacher, I’ve had my share of stress.  I work in an education system that seems to ignore the health of kids and staff in a misguided attempt to ‘raise standards’.

I’m absolutely convinced that ‘standards’ would naturally improve IF we could learn to be more relaxed as a society.

The UK has the most over-tested kids in the world.

Who benefits from this?

I lose many many hours of teaching each year simply because the students are being tested and have to be withdrawn from lessons.

Crazy!

I’m so pleased, though, that I’m not alone in my thinking.  I’ve just read a great article called, ‘In Pursuit of Relaxation

Here’s a short extract:

“Relaxation techniques even offer academic benefits. According to Al Gini, author of The Importance of Being Lazy, “Fatigue and the frenzy of overstimulation can block objectivity, delimit perspective, and often deaden our ability to calculate and evaluate logically.” Research has also proven that stress has a negative, sometimes demoralizing, impact on the ability to learn and to take tests. Tension control, on the other hand, can help children learn better and more successfully manage stressful test taking. Indeed, there was a study of “brilliant American children,” which found that one of the common factors in their lives was the fact that they spent a lot of unstructured time “doing nothing.” That alone should be enough incentive to let children hang out and relax.”

How true!

In the article, Rae talks about how relaxation is a learned skill.  Isn’t it strange how something that you would imagine to be so easy, is actually very difficult to achieve.

So… period 3 each Wednesday morning to be devoted to one hour of ‘taught’ relaxation for kids AND staff?

What do you think?

Read Rae’s article here: In Pursuit of Relaxation

Even The Rich and Famous Get Stressed?

It looks like even the rich and famous suffer from stress.

Angelina Jolie has said that she’s concerned that family stress will drive away partner Brad Pitt.

“You have less time together, you’re always busy, you’re often tired in the evenings. So it’s something that you either learn to adapt to or you’re going to be in trouble as a couple,” she said.

I guess stress is going to be around for a long time for everybody!

More reason to find ways to relieve stress and spend quality time relaxing with friends and family.

Here are some more reasons to be aware of the symptoms of stress and how it can affect your health…

Family Stress Ups Child’s Risk of Distress
- Researchers discovered maternal distress symptoms, family stress and lack of social support in the child’s pre-school environment leads to an increase in anxiety and depression symptoms when these children reach 12-13 years old. …

Symptoms of Stress
- Symptoms of stress and how it affects our health.

Recognizing The Symptoms Of Stress
- In order to figure out if you are stressed, it is necessary to know the symptoms of stress. Fortunately, these are usually fairly obvious, making stress easy to diagnose. However, it is never a bad idea to make sure that you know the …

Causes and Symptoms of Stress
- It is possible that as much as 70% of all trips to the doctor can be attributed to stress. Stress is the great pretender, mimicking or contributing to nearly every ailment imaginable. In the interest of your own personal development, …

Latest relaxation music news

Here’s the best relaxation music news from the web.

There’s some great stuff here so enjoy!

WHAT IS YOUR PASSION?

Listening to music does wonders to alleviate stress. Please note that everyone has different tastes in music. Listen to the music that you feel comfortable. Sitting down and forcing yourself to listen to relaxation music that you don’t …

Stephen Rhodes

Like many subsequent releases, Perfume would go pop in meditation and relaxation behavior music listening communities worldwide. Though New World Music artists tend to bank on their domestic British fan bag, Rhodes’ music appears on new …

What do you know about “Bedside Music?”

A music practitioner plays healing and relaxation music at the bedside of ill and dying patients. There have been many studies written on the benefits of music for patients and families. Bedside healing music is a new field being …

Music for Healing & Meditation

The music on this CD is tonal in composition, without distracting chords and melodies, and is designed to balance the chakras. This creates an ideal atmosphere for meditation, relaxation, and healing. It helps immensely with the …

Effects of music therapy on patients in a coronary care unit with …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether relaxation and music therapy were effective in reducing stress in patients in a coronary care unit admitted with the presumptive diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. …

That’s all for today.

More relaxation music news to follow.