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Practice Mindful Meditation to Combat Disease
By Dr. Isaac Eliaz on 08/29/2011
The health benefits of meditation, whether secular or spiritual, have long been recognized in the East, and now these benefits have successfully been tested in the rigors of the scientific community with excellent results.
More and more peer reviewed research on meditation confirms that it is a viable method of improving health and psychological/emotional well being, helping with issues ranging from cardiovascular disease, inflammation, immune activity, to pain, anxiety, depression, mental imbalances, and more.
As a relaxation technique, meditation offers many benefits, and it is well known in the medical world that reduction of stress improves the condition of many disease states and helps to greatly reduce health risks related to physical, mental and emotional overload. Risk factors for a multitude of diseases including life threatening heart disease and stroke have been improved with the regular use of meditation as a balancing and strengthening self-care modality.
The benefits of meditation are most noticeable when it is practiced on a regular, preferably daily, basis. The most important thing to remember is to start out at a pace that is reasonable for you, say, 10 minutes every evening before bed. If you place a lofty goal of meditating for two hours every morning, and are unable to reach it, it is very easy to give up, and as they say in Buddhism, your mind is always looking for an excuse to avoid meditation. Commanded by our egos, the resistance of our hyper-active minds to the gradual and gentle quieting influence of our natural inner calm, our true essence, is one of the greatest challenges to a successful commitment to meditation.
By gaining control over this hyper-reactive mind state through the gentle discipline of a budding meditation practice, we can experience greater and more profound access to our natural inner essence, leading to increased awareness and a more profound experience of being. The health benefits that this expanded depth of experience can provide are numerous, but most often they are marked by a greater mental and emotional stability, and a balancing and strengthening of our physical energy.
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Dr. Isaac Eliaz, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980's, is a respected author, lecturer, researcher, product formulator and clinical practitioner.
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Anonymous
The best meditation I have tried is Sahaja meditation. The
goal is thoughtless awareness. It is practiced in most
countries in the world and it is always free of charge.
Boomer12k
Capitalized words are not angry shouting, it is for emphasis....
When I was in the midst of my bad bout of Candida Overgrowth, I was extremely emotional at EVERYTHING...one symptom of Thyroidism is IRRITABILITY!!!! I would breakdown and cry if I dropped butter on the floor, and don't get me started about TOAST!!!!
THE STRESS WAS CONSTANT AND HORRIFIC!
So what did I do to get my emotions back under control? I am a 38 year Martial Arts instructor. I meditated since the early 80's. Was not helping me. I tried a 350 dollar course of anti-anxiety tapes. Did not help me as much as a preacher on TV saying "Don't poison your joy!!!". Sent the tapes back. But a little saying and all these other things do not truly address the problem. Constantly having no thyroid, and an out of balance chemistry. And the high toxicity levels from Candida and Leaky Gut Syndrome. I was like that for 7 years!!! It was not until 2009 that I discovered how to get better emotional control.
What I discovered was, emotions are not CHEMICAL!!! Oh, there might be a connection with the body, and you have a chemical response, but that is AFTER you feel the emotion. You did not dump Cortisol 2 minutes before you FELT THE STRESS. You felt the stress and then started dumping it. You did not dump adrenaline 5 minutes before you saw the Tiger. So the chemistry comes second to the emotion!!!!! Emotions are a reaction from your being aware of a circumstance, and I do admit that if your chemistry is "OUT", then you are more susceptible to irritation and tantrums. But that is really just another SYMPTOM!!!!
Meditation, I admit does address SOME of the SYMPTOMS, but does not address the CAUSE DIRECTLY!!!! It is actually FIGHTING THE CAUSE trying to remain calm. Which I could not do, due to constant irritation, it is not a RACING MIND!!!!! It is your mind is sooooo fogged up from the toxicity, and infection like symptoms, "flu-like", that YOU CAN NOT CONCENTRATE, AND GET CONTROL OF IT!!! YOUR AWARENESS IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH!!!! I know, I went through this for 7 years..... Have you ever tried to workout when you had the FLU???
What if you did not have to take anything for Stress, Anxiety and even Depression? What if these conditions had the same mechanism and were not just chemical? WHAT IF IT WAS SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, AND VERY INEXPENSIVE?
There is a NEWLY discovered technique for negative emotional states. It is described in a book and DVD titled, "Happiness Is No Charge”.
This is a Personal Therapy, no practitioner is needed. There is no DIET TO FOLLOW!!! Negative emotions can be stopped, many times in just a few minutes. That is CORRECT, MINUTES!!!!
Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Irritation, Frustration, Suppression, Repression, Compulsion, Obsessions, habits, can either get relief or even disappear, as well as other negative mental states. Interestingly enough, they all have the same mechanism in the mind!!!! That is why the same technique can work for each one!!!!! NEW DISCOVERY!!!!! Negative emotions basically evaporate!
The technique is a simple 1, 2, 3, step technique and can actually be learned from the concept behind it, to the technique itself in about FIVE MINUTES!!!!!
No kidding, I have been doing the technique for over to two and a half years now! I use the technique on everything from irritation and frustration to stress, an anxiety attack, panic attacks, when I am sad or upset, any type of negative emotion or circumstance. Gone in a few minutes, back to normal. NORMAL!!!! Even with a chemical problem because of having no thyroid, it works and you are back to calm. The Goal of Meditation. IT IS WHEN YOU BECOME CALM THAT YOUR BODY START TO REACT TO THAT!!!!! THUS THE CHEMISTRY BECOMES LESS AND LESS OUT AND THE BOYD STARTS TO HEAL AS BEST IT CAN!!!!! BUT MEDITATION DOES NOT ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC ISSUES, JUST THE GENERAL ISSUE. This technique can address specific issues!!!! Because the above conditions are not just chemical. The chemistry is JUST A REACTION!!!!!!! In other words, it is just a symptom!!!!!! Get to the source of the problem. Treat that, it will disappear regardless of the chemistry!!!!!!
My stress use to be a 10+, always "ON EDGE", if not over it. Now my stress is between 0 and 1!!!! I start doing the technique immediately, and in a few minutes it is OVER WITH!!! It works for past upsets as well, because you are still affected by it on a subconscious level. So it can get a past Stress also...Stress CAN BE A THING OF THE PAST!!!!
I do agree that Meditation can help. But it does not get rid of the cause. I agree that being calmer stops stress, etc...it is what I USED TO DO AND RECOMMEND AND TEACH MY MARTIAL ARTS STUDENTS!!!! I NOW HAVE AND USE A NEW TECHNIQUE THAT GETS AT AND ADDRESSES THE THING DIRECTLY IN THE MIND!!!!
Well worth your time checking it out!
Be Well and Happy.
Steve
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