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Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

... * There is scientific evidence for the role of meditation or yoga in sports. * Improving the mental state of players is important to get the best results for a team. In a study which was looking at visual cues in cricket batting, the impression of the study indicated that: * Skilled players were ab...

Stay Young by Practicing Zen Meditation

... matter changes in 13 regular practitioners of Zen meditation and 13 control subjects matched for age and education level who never practiced meditation by employing voxel-based morphometry (VBM), a recent technique to measure gray matter changes from M...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

...tual tradition where it is often used as an aid to meditation and has been practiced in this country for thousands of years and any attempt to commercialize it is unethical. "Yoga can't be owned and run like a company. Since there are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the Indian govern...

Are Physicians Hesitant to Diagnose Depression?

...lieve lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and meditation may also be helpful in treating depression, depending on the patient's individual situation. Additional key survey findings include: -- Gender makes a difference when diagnosing depression -- Thirty percent of clinicians reported being less like...

Art of Living Foundation to Train Iraqi Youths

Iraq has decided to send youths to learn meditation from Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who ended a path-breaking visit to the war-hit country Thursday with a trip to the holy city of Najaf. Impressed by the Art of Living Foundation, Iraqi Youth Minister Jasin Mohammed Jaffer vowed he ...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...ging and Behavior recruited subjects interested in meditation to study whether conscious mental training can aff...hat three months of rigorous training in Vipassana meditation improved people's ability to detect a second target within the half-second time window. In addition,...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...Tibetan monks and other religious people have used meditation to calm the mind and improve concentration. This w... a new study shows exactly how one common type of meditation affects the brain. Using a scanner that reveals which parts of the brain are active at any given m...

Shahnaz Hussain Takes Ayurveda to London's Harley Street

...n the principles of holistic health, with yoga and meditation as an integral part of the individual cure and care programmes. The Shahnaz Husain specialized clinical treatments and therapeutic formulations have received international acclaim as a perfect practical application of Ayurveda. The treatments use p...

Indian Yoga Expert Teaches Fitness Mantras to Lahoris

... said. He said the disciplines of asceticism and meditation led to spiritual experience and profound understanding of the nature of existence. The word yoga is derived from the Sanskirt root Yuj, which means to control, yoke or unite. During yoga, a high level of energy is released and circulated to the br...

'Rehab Changed by Life' Says Lindsay Lohan

...ld also revealed that she has turned to prayer and meditation for busting stress. " If I get stressed out I say a serenity prayer. I meditate too," she added. Lohan added that she always carries around 'The Prince' written by Machiavelli, Italian political philosopher. "I was going out with someone and th...

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