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February 5, 2019 0Comments

New Healing Breathwork Album

Guided Meditation Treks is proud to announce the next album: Healing Breathwork. The culmination of years of life experience with this type of meditation modality and a 4-level training from my mentor on the subject, David Elliott, this is the 5th album from Guided Meditation Treks. The topics for this album go deep into both the light and dark elements of our lives that may need healing.The first track, Stepping Into Your Power, reminds us of the inherent power we have as a soul in this incarn […]

May 2, 2016 0Comments

Hot Bath Meditation

There are many ways to meditate! As part of a cleanse, I’ve been taking a hot bath every day for the last two months. A hot bath is a great way to meditate, and it is also a great way for your body to detoxify itself! You can do this in a hot tub or sauna, but since most people have a bathtub, a hot bath is easier.Like me, you might have a tendency to get out of a hot tub after about 5 minutes as you start to sweat. But if you can hang in there, that’s only the beginning of where the fun starts […]

April 11, 2016 0Comments

The Placebo Effect is Good Medicine

Documentary on the Placebo Effect Many look to science to determine the effectiveness of certain treatments on our health, and there is a belief in Western medicine that the solution to our problems is some procedure or pill from the outside. I write a lot about the power we have to heal ourselves, but sometimes it may seem unscientific to hold this view.Western medicine looks to physical science to prove or disprove certain hypotheses. However, Eastern belief systems indicate that our physical […]

November 20, 2015 0Comments

Who Needs Obamacare When You Have Meditation?

A new research study shows that a little yoga or meditation a day might just keep the doctor away.Stress-related health problems are responsible for up to 80{517948df36ad51d7417aad347fee66a5a596eda505fff08c49e5c8a00692fdd7} of visits to the doctor and account for the third highest health care expenditures, behind only heart disease and cancer. But as few as 3{517948df36ad51d7417aad347fee66a5a596eda505fff08c49e5c8a00692fdd7} of doctors actually talk to patients about how to reduce stress. Read More… […]

December 29, 2014 0Comments

NIH Has Spent $100.2 Million on Mindfulness Meditation

The advantage of this is that it actually doesn’t cost anything,” said Karen May, a vice president at Google, explaining how her company offers “mindfulness” classes to its employees. Mindfulness is a New Age kind of meditation that focuses on the present moment “non-judgmentally,” tracing its origins to Buddhism. The growing phenomenon was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday, for which May and other fans of the practice were interviewed. R […]

December 28, 2014 0Comments

Guided Imagery Therapy

Andrew Weil, Twice on the cover of TIME magazine and author of 10 books, discusses what he calls “Guided Imagery Therapy,” which is essentially what many of the Guided Meditation Treks are. Visualization and guided imagery offer tools to direct one’s concentration on images held in the mind’s eye. These therapies take advantage of the connection between the visual brain and the involuntary nervous system. When this portion of the brain (the visual cortex at the back of the h […]

December 27, 2014 0Comments

60 Minutes of mindfulness can change your life

Our lives are filled with distractions — email, Twitter, texting we’re constantly connected to technology, rarely alone with just our thoughts. Which is probably why there’s a growing movement in America to train people to get around the stresses of daily life.It’s a practice called “mindfulness” and it basically means being aware of your thoughts, physical sensations, and surroundings. Tonight, we’ll introduce you to the man who’s largely responsible for mindfulness gaining traction. Hi […]

December 26, 2014 0Comments

Scientists Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and r […]

December 25, 2014 0Comments

Meditation is the best medication

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December 23, 2014 0Comments

Strongest Study Yet Shows Meditation Can Lower Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Most doctors say meditation can’t hurt you, but now there’s reassuring evidence that it may help you as well when it comes to warding off disease. Previous studies have linked better health outcomes among heart patients who practiced meditation compared to those who did not, but none of those trials could definitively credit the brain-focusing program with the better health results. In the latest trial to address those limitations, however, meditation does appear to have […]