| ation is a method for focusing a person’s | | | | from illness. It isn’t a good healing method |
| attention, which helps him to be relaxed and | | | | for those with respiratory problems because they |
| peaceful. It also fosters a lucid awareness of life. | | | | have a hard time breathing deeply or for anyone |
| Eastern thinkers have perceived the benefits of | | | | that can’t be comfortable sitting for a |
| mediation for thousand’s of years. It has | | | | prolonged period. |
| in the last century become more accepted and | | | | Some of its benefits are: calmness, ease, |
| practiced in the west. Western medicine has | | | | emotional balance improved, enhances |
| recognized its health value to a larger extent. | | | | self-esteem, focuses thinking, clarifies thinking, and |
| The two techniques of meditation practiced the | | | | makes calm when facing a challenge. |
| most are: mindful and concentrative. | | | | Psychologically, meditation helps people break free |
| Transcendental meditation is an example of | | | | from a habit of being preoccupied with the past |
| concentrative meditation. This type of meditation | | | | or the future--it beings the person into the now. |
| concentrates on one mantra or image or the | | | | Some people are stuck in a frame of mind that is |
| person’s breathing. Mindful MBSR means | | | | waiting for someone to love them, for someone |
| Mindful Based Stress Reduction. It is a kind of | | | | to be kind, to have the perfect life, home, family. |
| complementarily medicine that addresses the | | | | They are living and waiting for a mythology to |
| physical and emotional health of the patient. | | | | make everything right according to Daeja Napier |
| MBSR doesn’t have the patient focus on | | | | who founded the Insight Meditation Center in |
| an object, sound or his breathing. It is a method | | | | Boston. Napier explains that what is missing in life |
| of being aware of what goes through the mind | | | | many times is being mindful and meditation helps |
| like thoughts, sounds, emotions or images. | | | | a person be mindful. He gets control of his mind |
| Meditation includes steady, slow breathing, while | | | | and thinking and can empty his mid of chatter and |
| being still for period of ten to twenty minutes. | | | | random thoughts. |
| It is used to help treat a lot of different ailments | | | | Mediation is a sound technique for gaining many |
| including the physical and mental. It is used to | | | | emotional, and physical benefits and for getting |
| treat addictive behaviors like drug and alcohol use. | | | | focused. It calms the mind and body and brings |
| Stress, depression, and anxiety are treated with | | | | harmony to the adherent’s system. It is |
| it. The National Institutes of Health states that | | | | now accepted more so in the West and has been |
| transcendental meditation is an excellent | | | | proven in various studies to be an effective |
| treatment for high blood pressure. | | | | treatment. It is being used in major hospitals as a |
| Meditation is used to treat pain and host flashes. It | | | | complementary method of treatment for various |
| helps relieve the anxiety caused by having a | | | | diseases whether emotional, psychological or |
| long-term disease such as cancer. It also helps to | | | | physical. |
| heal headaches and migraines, and to recover | | | | |