Tag: meditation-stress-relief

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… […]

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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 […]

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