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Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

Latest research into transcendental meditation says it is possible to fight body pain and a host ... of years ago has attracted world wide acclaim and meditation is the hallmark of Indian school of medicine and forms the crux of even the rituals and patterns of ...

Meditation relieves stress

A meditation programme has proved useful in helping people deal...here has been quite a bit of research showing that meditation helps people improve both their physical and mental ill health. Researchers at West Virginia Uni...

Meditation relieves stress

According to a new study a meditation programme helps people with chronic illness.Resear..., USA, offered 104 patients with chronic illness a meditation programme. This went on for eight weeks. The patients, who suffered from conditions like asthma, pa...

Spirituality relieves stress

A meditation programme has proved useful in helping people deal...re has been quite a bit of research showing that// meditation helps people improve both their physical and mental ill health. Researchers at West Virginia Uni...

Meditation Works Medically

...first studies of its kind, researchers say mindful meditation can have a positive impact on health. The study, l.../Wisconsin, determined the practice of mindfulness meditation impacts the left side of the brain and has a healthy effect. The researchers recruited 25 people in...

A Solution For Patients Suffering From Shingles

...w study shows tai chi -- slow exercise and intense meditation -- protects seniors against the shingles virus. Each tai chi class is about 45 minutes long. Tai chi has also been shown to help illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and arthritis. Specialists say that as we age,...

Meditation may reduce stress and help you live longer

...that distressing can happen through transcendental meditation programs that can lead to prevention and control o...treme stressful life, interventions in the form of meditation may have long-term effect over the health of the individual. Researchers had pooled patient data fro...

Yoga Can Be Good For Breast Cancer Patients

Yoga a popular form of ancient Indian exercise and meditation for the mind and the body. It is known to have // ...rain. Previously some research has shown that Yoga meditation affects certain brain regions. Dr HR Nagendra, the President of "Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhan...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

...ternative medicine approaches ranging from prayer, meditation and yoga to chiropractic and acupuncture therapy don't pose any specific hazard when combined with conventional heart treatments. Kline-Rogers and her colleagues are now working on a larger study of heart patients. This study would repeat the origi...

'Art of Living' concept expanding around the globe

... many worldwide with his breathing, relaxation and meditation techniques, also addressed a large gathering of medical professionals organised by the Krasnoyarsk State Medical Academy and the health ministry. The spiritual leader met Alexander Uss, the speaker of the Krasnoyarsk assembly, and discussed issues r...

Meditation Maintains And Thickens The Grey Matter Of The Brain

Researchers had shown meditation can increase the thickness of the grey matter in t...t is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone's grey matter," Gray said. "The study participants were people with jobs ...

Singing Leads To Better Health

...se conclusions were drawn. 'Singing is similar to meditation and walking in terms of its positive effects on health', said Gunter Kreutz, the leader of the study. 'People who sing regularly can improve their breathing, increase their supply of oxygen, stimulate their circulation and get their bodies energized...

Ayurveda Spas are hot in San Francisco

... and flute music, as well as Asian decoration with meditation bells and a Buddha statue. The Kabuki first opened its doors in 1971, targeting mainly local Japanese as a ‘sento’, a traditional Japanese public bath. But in 1999, San Francisco's largest boutique hotel operator, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, took ove...

Dance Therapy For Healing Nepal's Battered Women

... movements. "The therapy was a mix of movements, meditation and psychological counselling," Renu Shah, a counsellor and psychologist with Saathi, a Nepali NGO that runs shelters for battered wives and children, told IANS. "It was like a breath of fresh air for the residents, who have known little happiness ...

Yoga Can Keep Youths Away From Drugs: Ravi Shankar

...Ravishankar has said practising yoga, pranayam and meditation will help youths to keep away from drug and alcohol abuse. // 'Youths crave for something different and it is our duty to introduce yoga, pranayam and dhyan (meditation) to them,' he said while interacting with reporters last evening at Tapobhoomi,...

Meditation may Improve Cardiac Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

...O - A relaxation technique known as transcendental meditation may decrease blood pressure and reduce insulin res...eagues conducted a 16-week trial of transcendental meditation in patients with coronary heart disease. Fifty-two participants (average age 67.7 years) were instr...

New Book on Yoga Offer Relief for ‘Desk Jockeys

...ed people to try various yoga poses, breathing and meditation techniques while at work and report back to me how they felt during the day. They all said they felt less pain and were less irritable with co-workers," says Aldous. She says doing the yoga exercises will result in "greater productivity, an increa...

A brief Intervention Might Help To Deal With Depression

...easant activities, exercise, self-help literature, meditation and spirituality, and medication – to help relieve their depression. The brochure also gave the students examples of problem solving and how to change their thought processes. Finally, it provided a list of on- and off-campus treatment resources Th...

Older Adults could be Benefited from Chinese Martial-Arts

Ancient Chinese exercises, which focus on meditation and relaxation techniques, have proved beneficial for older adults – a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois says//. Adding strength to the previous work, a recent study of Martial arts such as Qigong and Taiji, practiced by ancien...

Family, Books Best Stress-busters for Indian CEOs

... Around one-third of the respondents revealed that meditation and pranayama, or breathing exercises, are their best bet for getting rid of stress. "Interestingly, the CEOs in India said that their peers in the US, Europe and China suffer more stress," the report states. The survey found ample reason to supp...

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