Can Meditation Sharpen Our Attention?
UW-Madison: Study - Can meditation sharpen our attention? MADISON - A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that people can train their minds to stay focused. The study, led by UW-Madison scientist Antoine Lutz, involved subjects interested in medita..
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Prison inmates go Zen to deal with life behind bars
By Stephanie Chen CNN RIVERDALE, Georgia (CNN) -- In his darkest moment, Kenneth Brown lost it all. His wife and kids, the housebroken dog, the vacation home on Cape Cod all vanished when he was sent to prison for an arson in 1996. Trapped in his gloomy cell and serving a 20-year sentence ..
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Meditation Nation: Chicagoans Meditate to Combat Stress
What pops into your mind when you hear the word "meditation?" Sitting cross-legged on a pillow? Blanking out your thoughts completely? Local devotees of the practice say they've heard it all when it comes to popular notions of the meditative arts. "A lot of people think the whole..
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Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors
Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors by Bonnie Rochman Not long ago at Fort Bragg, N.C., the country's largest military base, seven soldiers sat in a semi-circle, lights dimmed, eyes closed, two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their "core." Ele..
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Practise ‘mindful eating’ to beat the bulges
ONE reason for that expanding tyre round your middle is simply because you overeat. And you eat too much in part because you don’t think about what, when or how much you are eating. Your mind is elsewhere — on the TV, the newspaper, thoughts of what you forgot to do today at the office, or thos..
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Meditation Cuts ADHD Symptoms in Kids
Just 10 minutes of transcendental meditation can help reduce attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomsin kids,according to a study by the George Washington University. During the study, the researchers followed a group of middle school students with ADHD who were meditating twice..
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Real Life: Retreat into relaxation
Real Life: Retreat into relaxation Retreat centres have become a popular destination for people seeking to heal their mind and body on the road to wellness By Ailin Quinlan THERE is nothing more powerful, said the French poet Victor Hugo, as an idea whose time has come. Once upon a time well..
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The Quiet Road to Health
By David Nelson, June 20, 2009 At the end of every yoga class, Mike Brazell leads a guided meditation. While soothing music plays in the background, his students lie on their backs with their legs slightly spread and their arms by their sides. Through a series of gentle suggestions, he tel..
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Rep. Tim Ryan boosts meditation from his perch in Congress
Congressman Tim Ryan of Niles may not be a free trade fan, but there's at least one Asian import he swears by. It's called "mindfulness meditation." A recent USA Today article highlighted Ryan's stress-busting practice of meditating for 45 minutes each morning. Ryan has also placed a vi..
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Alternative Herbs and Medicines Grow in Popularity
Alternative medicine is growing increasingly more mainstream, and is now accepted by most doctors, insurers and hospitals. People use unconventional methods and herbal therapy for many reasons. Often they do not trust big drug companies or the government, and they have more faith in the nat..
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Meditation Seen Promising as ADHD Therapy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The practice of transcendental meditation may help children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder manage their symptoms, research suggests. In a pilot study, researchers found that lessons in transcendental meditation, or TM, appeared to calm the anx..
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Meditation May Be An Effective Treatment for Insomnia
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2009) — Meditation may be an effective behavioral intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to a research abstract that will be presented on June 9, at Sleep 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Results indicate that ..
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Kobe Bryant on Meditation
With the NBA Finals in full swing, there is a ton of news coverage for this sporting event. Nowhere is the news coverage more all-encompassing and crazy than the two cities battling for the title, Los Angeles and Orlando. In an interview with Kobe Bryant yesterday in between games, both Kobe and the..
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Mindfulness Meditation being used in Hospitals and Schools
Challenges are landing fast and furious on Capitol Hill. So Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, feels he has to arrive at the top of his game every day. And Ryan says he has found a way to do that: He meditates for at least 45 minutes before leaving home. Ryan, 35, sits on a floor cushion, closes h..
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Studies Suggest Meditation May Help Control Bladder
Cognitive therapy such as meditation may be effective in the management of urinary incontinence in women, new research has found. Scientists from Loyola University Health System in Chicago set out to investigate the impact of deep-breathing and guided-imagery exercises on female participa..
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Meditation Keeps Mind Healthy
Meditation keeps minds healthy, says practitioner Author Susan Piver will be one of the speakers at this weekend's HAWK writing workshop. Courtesy By JASON ASHLEY WRIGHT World Scene Writer Published: 6/2/2009 2:19 AM Last Modified: 6/2/2009 5:15 AM ------------------------------..
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Neuroscience: Make Meditation Your Business
An increasing body of scientific evidence supports the benefits of Zen meditation — a centuries-old practice aimed at mental and physical balance — in and out of business. Now, brain imaging shows that experienced Zen meditators can clear their minds of distractions more quickly than others..
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Meditation May Lead to a Bigger Brain
LOS ANGELES, May 25 (UPI) -- Push-ups may lead to a better body, but meditation may lead to a better brain, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. The researchers used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of people who meditate. The study..
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Meditation Makes People More Intelligent by Growing the Brain
Richard Alleyne - For thousands of years, Buddhists, hippies and spiritualists have claimed that the mental discipline promises a higher state of consciousness. It has been taken so seriously that schools in America are considering including meditation as part of their curriculums, thanks t..
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Valley People Seek Alternative Ways to Deal with Stress
If you can't find a spot to roll out a yoga mat or get an empty seat in a meditation class, blame it on the recession. Yoga studios, meditation classes and the offices of massage therapists and acupuncturists are crowded with folks who have lost jobs and homes -- or worried about losing..
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Meditation Treats Bladder Control, Incontinence without Drugs
(NaturalNews by S. Baker) There’s a reason “adult diapers” like Depends and costly prescription medications such as Ditropan and Detrol are multi-million dollar industries. According to the National Association for Continence (NAFC), bladder control problems afflict about 25 million Americans --..
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Zen Forest Meditation For Hockey Players
By Martin Avery- This column was inspired by the news that a certain member of the New York Rangers who wears No. 16 went to anger management and learned some kind of meditation technique. After A.M., Sean Avery was described as everything from a Zen robot to someone who played hockey with a Z..
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Meditation Key to Treat Depression
LONDON: People with severe and recurrent depression could benefit from a new form of therapy that combines ancient forms of meditation with modern cognitive behaviour therapy, early-stage research by Oxford University psychologists suggests. The results of a small-scale randomised tria..
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Duck Meditations
Julie's NordicIsland: Duck Meditations When something unexpected happens most of us spend a bit of time and effort trying to resist it. We are by our nature status quo creatures. Very often,though, there is a small kernel of truth in that happening which, if you nurtureit with ..
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Meditation Has Its Advantages
Studies show it can reduce stress, cut disease risks When my instructor told me to sit perfectly still, keep my back straight, close my eyes, and not listen to anything but the sound of my own breathing, all for 10 minutes, I didn't think I would be able to survive. Who did he think I was? ..
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The Countess is Moving On With Meditation
Will the Countess and Count be friends or foes? LuAnn de Lesseps is opening up about her recent split from husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps. Plus, "The Real Housewives of New York City" star talked to "Extra" about the shocking split from her aristocrat hubby -- after he allegedly admitted (by ema..
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Surviving Beatles unite to promote meditation
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite on stage next month to raise money to teach transcendental meditation to children around the world to "help provide them a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world," McCartney said. The star-studded list of performers who will join t..
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Highly Religious Patients Fight to Live Longer
Highly Religious Patients Fight to Live Longer by Audrey Barrick- A new study on patients with advanced cancer found that those who used their religious faith to cope with their illness were far more likely to want doctors to do everything possible to keep them alive than were less religious p..
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To help traumatized Tibetan monks, doctors in Boston turn to cross-cultural medicine
Though recently granted political asylum in America, Yeshi Togden, a Tibetan monk, knew no peace. All his training in meditation could not block the flashbacks from his months as a political prisoner, beaten and wracked by thirst, or stop the obsessive worry about the people he had to leave behi..
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Meditation is a Very Personal Experience, so What Can You Get Out of a Group Tour?
In the previous Quiet the Mind articles, we covered misconceptions about meditation, and started our visualizations with the rainbow and the stairway. More complete active meditations will follow. I did feel compelled to devote one article in the series to the practice of Guided Group Meditation. I ..
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The Mayo Clinic: Meditation: Take a stress-reduction break wherever you are
Meditation: Take a stress-reduction break wherever you are Meditation can wipe away the day's stress, giving you a clean slate. You can practice meditation anywhere — at home, on the bus, at work or wherever you are. See how. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years. Originally, it ..
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Meditation Becomes a Spa Offering
I'm still a beginner at meditation, and it takes me quite a while just to calm down. And like many beginning (and even experienced) meditators, my racing thoughts are never too far from the surface. But when I was checking out new trends at a Spa Magazine show, I was impressed by a treatment called ..
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