Category Archives: Meditation & Yoga

Yoga Beneficial For A Wide Range Of Disorder

Yoga is commonly seen as a practice beneficial to body and mind. Increasingly, this ancient lifestyle practice for spiritual awareness is being taken a step further and applied as a form of complementary and alternative medicine in treating health disorders. … Continue reading

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Yoga For Rheumatoid Arthritis

 Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who practice yoga show significant improvements in disease activity, according to a new Emirates Arthritis Foundation study. Among 47 participants (26 yoga practitioners and 21 non-practitioners), findings demonstrated that individuals who completed 12 sessions of Raj … Continue reading

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Meditation And Acupuncture For Stress

People with consistently high health care costs experience a significant decrease in physician fees after an average of five years practicing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique. In addition to meditation, acupuncture can alleviate stress by releasing natural pain-killing chemicals, called … Continue reading

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Yoga for Fibromyalgia

  Practicing yoga reduces the physical and psychological symptoms of chronic pain in women with fibromyalgia, finds a new study by York University researchers. The study is the first to look at the effects of yoga on cortisol levels in … Continue reading

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Yoga and Tai Chi For Health And Wellness

For an investment of 20 minutes each morning, the payback is reduced stress, a sense of calm and peace, improved strength, limberness, better immune function, and lower blood pressure. It’s not too good to be true. The investment is practicing … Continue reading

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Meditation Reduces Pain Perception

Meditation has many health benefits, including a reduced sensitivity to pain. Meditators do feel pain but they simply don’t dwell on it as much, according to a new University of Montreal study. These findings may have implications for chronic pain … Continue reading

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Exercise For Chronic Disease Prevention

The beneficial health effects of exercise—including reduced risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes—are well known, but the underlying biological mechanisms of these benefits are unclear. A new study takes a look at how regular exercise impacts health … Continue reading

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Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental meditation (TM) can produce a unique state of restful alertness, according to a new study conducted on college students at American University. The transcendental meditation technique activates the natural default mode “ground state” of the brain, producing significant brain … Continue reading

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College Students Benefit From Transcendental Meditation

College students are particularly prone to psychological distress caused by academic pressures, financial strains and uncertain futures. Transcendental meditation can aid in significantly improving students’ mental health. Benefits of transcendental meditation include: • Purposeful, flexible thinking • Energy and vitality … Continue reading

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Yoga for Back Pain

People with chronic low-back problems who do yoga also do better at overcoming pain and depression than people treated conventionally for back pain, a West Virginia University study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows. The three-year, $400,000 study, … Continue reading

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