Calm down or die

Improve your vision

2006-03-24T17:18:00.000-08:00

Meditate - as a way to find calm in a hectic world

2006-03-20T22:31:00.000-08:00

Meditate

It's your call. So many of my clients seek help from me and from other people because their lives are so out-of-control. By that, I mean that they usually only seek help when they can't sleep or when they want to sleep too much, or they can't eat or they want to eat too much.

You get it.

Extremes. Only in extremes do they become aware of the subtle but devastating effect that the stressors in their lives are having on their biological systems. You see, even though we're all blogging our lives away, and cyberspace has almost replaced the handwritten letter (what a thrill to get one of those!!), we're still the same biological entity we've always been.

We still need sleep, food, water to survive, and not necessarily in that order :-).

When our brains are bombarded with too many visual, audio and other images we all find it increasingly difficult to 'tune out', 'turn off the inner noise'.

When was the last time you did absolutely nothing except count your breaths?

That translates into: when did you last sit quietly, at peace with your self, and just....be. Just let your thoughts drift in, no fighting them, no engaging with them, just letting them drift out again? When was the last time you meditated?

Never? Ages ago? An hour ago?

From my practice and based on the many people I've worked with over the years, I have found meditation to be the single most direct path to lowering the negative effects of too much work, too many children's tears during a normal day, too much television, too many words on the radio.

Find peace. Meditate.

Conquer all fears: Get rid of your panic attacks

2006-03-19T21:28:00.000-08:00

Conquer all fears: Get rid of your panic attacks

Meditation has been proved to lower blood pressure

2006-03-19T20:32:00.000-08:00

Meditation

I do realise that some people still think of meditation as something that other people do. You know, other people being Zen Buddhist monks and maybe some ex-hippies.

Actually, meditation is now becoming so mainstream it's being seriously researched by many medical schools. For instance, go to this article to read about the Medical College of Georgia investigated meditation as one way to lower the blood pressure among adolescents. That's right, high blood pressure is by no means a problem restricted to the elderly. Meditation lowers blood pressure

As I've suggested previously, using the technology of the Insight CD you can gain all the benefits of meditation without the years of disciplined practice. for people who find the actual practice of meditation great, using the Insight CD can only enhance the experience. It's developed by The Immrama Institute and their website is worth a visit if you just need some more information about the benefits of meditation.

cheers

Jeannette

To minimise stress, learn about meditation

Stress is the number one killer

2006-03-19T00:51:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my blog. And no, I don't mean to scare you and I certainly don't mean to sound threatening. It's just that more and more I am realising that finding ways to minimise (or even minimize) the effects of stress is probably our number one health challenge.

Yes, we have to watch what we eat and we especially need to be careful about what our children are eating. I'm not just referring to the epidemic of early onset Diabetes 2. I'm also talking about the lethal combination of too much fat with too little walking to the shops and practically no sport.

Apart from eating more wisely and having at least twenty minutes a day of some sort of enjoyable exercise - cos let's face it. There's no point being healthy if you don't enjoy yourself. But even if the exercise and diet regimen of most of us was wonderful, there is a secret killer lurking everywhere.

STRESS

Stress is now linked with physical illness, not just emotional disturbances.

On the world’s #1 health website Mercola.com you can read Dr Joseph Mercola’s assessment of stress and its role in so many physical illnesses. To quote him briefly:

“As a physician I have treated tens of thousands of chronically ill patients at my clinic, The Optimal Wellness Center, and more than any bad dietary or lifestyle habit the number one cause of illness has been stress.” (emphasis mine)

One of the simplest and most pleasurable ways to reduce the impact of stress on your body, your mind and your spirit, is to spend some 'alone time' meditating. Yes, I know that can be difficult to build into your busy day. But isn't that precisely why you should? I've been meditating for years but recently I discovered a foolproof way to get all the benefits of meditation even when I'm so busy I don't feel like it. I simply sit down, put on my stereo headphones and listen to my Insight CD. I won't bother to go into all the technical reasons why this works. Suffice to say that it's based on the getting-to-be-famous binaural beat technology. It sells for about 1/40 the price of the Holosync program. Having tried both, I stay with Insight CD but not just because of its price. Please consider visiting The Immrama Institute for more details, especially about the harmonically layered frequencies.

For now, be well and I'll be back with more tips on keeping cool and calm. If you want to join my FR+EE ezine list (and it only comes out once each month so it won't clog up your email InBox) just click on here: Oasis of Calm

Jeannette