Meditation

Meditation room opens at PAHCS

2006-10-03T21:01:00.000-07:00

Now Paynesville Area Health Care System, now open a private space for spiritual reflection. The Meditation room - located on the south end of the hospital, is the first project for the PAHCS Foundation, founded in 2002, which raised $80,000 for the room.

"We've been looking forward to this meditation room for a long time," said PAHCS CEO Steve Moburg, "and we're so appreciative of the support."

The new meditation room at the Paynesville area Health Care System is the first project for the PAHCS Foundation, which started raising funds four years ago for the room.

The meditation room has seating capacity for eight, a nondenominational altar, and a lectern built by retired physician Ray Lindeman. On the lectern is a copy of Gospel and Acts from the St. John's Bible, also donated by Lindeman and his wife MaryLou, who also worked for PAHCS.

The meditation room, is intended as a private space for reflection for all people of faith: families during traumatic times; residents; and staff.

Meditation at Spirit Festival

2006-09-29T05:13:00.000-07:00

There is good news for those who are looking ofr relaxation you need to move for the old library in Harbour Road this weekend where the Spirit of the Whales Festival of Wellbeing is happening.

Begin the day with a quiet, guided meditation at 10:00. There Various healing therapies are offered by Vanessa. Book for reflexology, a hot stone or kahuna massage or an Indian head massage at her treatment room at the library. You can treat yourself to a delicious vegetarian lunch , accompanied by a glass of organic wine, by Stellar wineries.

The DVD The Secret reveals amazing real life stories and testimonials of regular people who have changed their lives in profound ways. They tell of instances of eradicating disease, acquiring wealth, overcoming obstacles and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

The Secret reveals how to apply this powerful knowledge in every area from health to wealth, success and relationships.

The weekend will close with a performance by the very talented musician and “sound therapist”, Christopher Tokalon. His show Don't Tune Me - I'll Tune you! promises to expand the ears and mind.

Call Julie Woodvine on 082 421 5667 to book tickets or for more information.

New Meditation CD

2006-09-25T05:40:00.000-07:00

British actress and yoga instructor, Roberta Lemon in collaboration with Californian former guitarist and songwriter Chris Pinnick for Meditation CD taking the listener on a magical, mystical journey to inner peace. It includes a simple and effective anti-stress device called “Autogenics”. This CD is for everyone, accompanied by Pinnick’s dulcet guitar playing.

Idea is Listeners can give the gift of Peace to others by giving MeditationCD and support the Children's Hunger Fund at the same time."Journey to Sabharata" (English) and "Viaje A Sabharata" (Spanish) by Roberta Lemon & Chris Pinnick

Meditation 'good for brain'

2006-09-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

According to Scientists, they have found evidence thatMeditation has a biological effect on the body. A small-scale study suggests it could boost parts of the brain and the immune system. It is now catching on worldwide as a means to reduce stress or to help with pain caused by various illnesses.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States enrolled 41 people in a trial of so-called "mindfulness" meditation.

It is a technique developed by an AmericanStress Management specialist - Jon Kabat-Zinn - for helping hospital patients deal with pain and discomfort.

Researchers measured electrical activity in the frontal part of the brain. They say this region was more active on the left side in the individuals who meditated and was associated with lower anxiety and a more positive emotional state.

Participants were also given a flu jab at the start of the study and those who meditated had higher levels of antibody, say the researchers, led by Dr Richard Davidson.

"Although our study is preliminary and more research clearly is warranted we are very encouraged by these results," he said.

New Vipassana Meditation center in Indore

2006-09-20T06:40:00.000-07:00

New Vipassana meditation center in Indore

Vipassana Centre, Dhamma Malava, is being constructed at Jambudi Hapsi village, Hatod Road, Opposite Gommatgiri, near Pitru Hill, about 6 kms from Indore airport. The Dhamma hall will be built in the first phase. The estimate for construction of dining halls, kitchen, office and accommodation blocks for 120 students and pagoda is about Rs. 2 crores (20 million).

Donations to the Indore Vipassana Trust are exempted from income tax under Section 80G. Contact: Indore Vipassana Centre, 582, M. G. Road (Web Duniya), Labh Ganga Indore. Tel: 0731-3983373; Mobile: 98937-88909

Seminar on power of Yoga and meditation for healing

2006-09-20T06:31:00.000-07:00

The seminar "Harnessing the Power of Yoga Meditation in Health and Healing" would be held in New York City, October 20-21, 2006. The specaker include Dr. Anil Singhal (Neurologist), Dr. Achala Singhal (Cardiologist), along with Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati and Nishit Patel.

New York City
Friday, October 20, 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Saturday, October 21, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Seminar Topics Include:

Claiming Your Birthright to Joy: Integrating Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health;

Meditation as Medication: The Inner Yoga Psychology of Transforming Emotions

Merging the Three Hearts: Yoga and Meditation Therapy for Healthy Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Hearts

Living with Chronic Disease and Perennial Joy: Dynamic Neurophysiological Reconditioning and Daily Life
Putting Theory into Practice through Purposeful Action: Karma Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Diet, and Ayurveda

Cultivating the Twin Sisters of Passion and Purity: Nine Suggestions on Health from Swami Rama; Swami Jnaneshvara
Removing the Obstacles to Wholeness: Healthy Mind and the Yoga Sutras; Swami Jnaneshvara

For more information contac:Nishit Patel 718-233-3456

Meditation may chase away hot flashes

2006-09-19T02:16:00.000-07:00

Now you may Keep yourself cool during menopause . According to a study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that menopausal women who participated in a stress-reduction program that included Meditation experienced a decrease in the frequency and intensity of hot flashes. The study is considered encouraging as more women seek alternatives to hormone replacement therapy, which can raise the risk of heart disease and breast cancer.

Physician to speak on Meditation

2006-09-19T02:09:00.000-07:00

Now physician are also using meditation to help people. A program on meditation will be held at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Congregation Degel Israel, 1120 Columbia Ave.

Dr. Robert Edelman, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present a program that will explore how a physician's study of Buddhist meditation and a discovery of meditation's use to prepare oneself for prayer.

For reservations, call 397-0183.

Meditation session to jail inmates

2006-09-19T01:29:00.000-07:00

The prisoners at Gwalior Jail recently had a day long session in spiritualism,
for Stress Management and how to shun violent tendencies by a team of volunteers from New York.

The session was for six hours on spiritualism to develop and realise their inner selves. It was organised by the Krishna Bhavnamat Sangh, the New York based voluntary organisation.

The nearly six hour long session was attended by almost all of the 2,800 prisoners. About 200 jail staff was also present during the programme.

The initiative was taken to make them learn how they can rehabilitate themselves in society after being released. The idea was to motivate the participant in spiritual meets to overcome emotional stress and sense of guilt.

"We have conducted these spiritual meets in the jail at Agra and many prisoners have been able to change this lifestyle and outlook. Some prisoners were creating nuisance in the jail but it was spiritual interactions with us that changed their attitude. Those prisoners have started Meditation for about eight hours a day," added Jankiram, Campaign Secretary of Krishna Bhavnamat Sangh.

Following this experimental spiritual programme, the prisoners serving jail terms beyond five years or serving life terms felt an urge to transform their lives.

It was hoped that the programme would help the inmates shun criminal tendencies and focus their attitude and outlook in a positive way.

Jail officials also think that such programmes coud be very helpful for the prisoners to think positive and reshape their lives.

Meditation school wants to buy golf course

2006-09-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

Maharishi transcendentalMeditation school wants to buy the Rackham Golf Course for $6.25 million with plans to keep it intact but turn it into an organic course, in addition to offering educational programs on golf and agriculture.

It's one of three offers that Detroit has received for the 120-acre course in Huntington Woods since it opened bids this summer for the land.

The offer was submitted by the Massachusetts-based Maharishi Vedic Education Corp., a transcendental mediation school, and the Global Country of World Peace, a non-profit group that advocates world peace and is based in Iowa.

The golf course was given to the city by the Rackham family in the 1920s under the stipulation that it remain a golf course or revert to the heirs. Lawyers for some Rackham heirs indicated they have reached a deal with Premium Golf to waive the deed restriction.

Mindfullness, meditation to relieve college stress

2006-09-10T22:44:00.000-07:00

NDSU is offering a mindfulness workshop for the first time.The workshop, offered by the NDSU Counseling Center, 212 Ceres Hall, is an eight-week experience that will address the different facets of mindfulness.

Focus is on Meditationpractices, discussion and handouts that will help students, faculty and staff through the course.

Ronni Arensberg, who holds a doctor of pyschology degree, will be instructing the workshop. She describes mindfulness with a three-part definition.

According to her, awareness is the first part, of present experience is the second part and with acceptance is the third part.

The awareness aspect is significant because it has to do with involving oneself in the present moment and the third part, acceptance, is very important because with mindfulness, as one becomes more aware, one starts to notice automatic judgments that go on in the mind, Arensberg said.

“ The goal of the workshop will be to plant seeds from which participants can grow their own mindfulness practice and start to apply mindfulness in their daily lives,” Arensberg said.

Mindfulness and meditation help deal withStress and keeping your mind in the present moment.

“ Life doesn’t change, stressful things still occur, but you respond differently to those things,” Arensberg said.

Arensberg wants to give the participants a flavor of what it is like so they can come to understand mindfulness for themselves.

“ In bringing your mind back to the present moment you feel more invested, more alive in what you are doing,“ Arensberg said.

The meditation is geared for all different levels, from beginners to experienced. The mediation group is free of cost and is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Meditation may reduce heart disease risk

2006-09-09T22:58:00.000-07:00

Black adolescents with high normal blood pressure who practice transcendental
Meditationimprove the ability of their blood vessels to relax and may reduce their risk of becoming adults with cardiovascular disease, researchers say.
After eight months of meditation, these adolescents experienced a 21 percent increase in the ability of their blood vessels to dilate compared to a 4 percent decrease experienced by their non-meditating peers, says Dr. Vernon A.
Barnes, physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia’s Georgia Prevention Institute and lead investigator on the study.

In the April 2004 issue of the American Journal of Hypertension, Dr. Barnes and his colleagues reported that 15 minutes of twice-daily transcendental meditation steadily lowered the blood pressure of 156 black, inner-city adolescents and their pressures tended to stay lower.

This new study, being presented during the 63rd Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society
held March 2-5 in Vancouver, focused on 111 of those adolescents, 57 who meditated and 54 controls.
The obesity epidemic in the United States,is the primary contributor to the increasing blood pressure rates in children.
But obesity appears to be part of an unhealthy cycle where the stresses of everyday life – such as poverty and not feeling safe at home – contribute to bad habits such as overeating and/or eating high-fat comfort foods and not
exercising. It appears that meditating – allowing the mind to settle to minimal activity for 15 minutes twice daily – may help the meditator and his blood vessels relax in the hectic world around him.

Dr. Frank Treiber, director of MCG’s Georgia Prevention Institute, and Dr. Surender Malhotra, cardiology fellow at MCG, are co-authors on the study which is highlighted as one of 10 abstract submissions to the conference viewed as having the highest potential to change clinical practice from the perspective of screening, diagnosis or treatment.

FIRST VIPASSANA MEDITATION CENTRE IN KERALA

2006-09-09T22:43:00.000-07:00

Kerala Vipassana Samiti has selected a five-acre piece of land in Cherianad Village, Chengannur
Taluka, Alleppey district for the first Vipassana centre in Kerala. It is eight kms from Chengannur
Railway station and well connected by good roads. It is about four hours drive from Trivandrum and
Kochi airports. The cost of land is Rs. 32 lacs (3.2 million).

Kerala Vipassana Samiti is registered as a charitable trust and has been conducting courses since
1991. So far, they have conducted 65 Vipassana courses. It plans to conduct residential courses as soon
as the land is acquired.

Vipassana meditators wishing to offer help with development of the centre may contact: Mr. B.
Ravindran, Tel: 0484 2539891, Mobile: 98465-69891. (Kerala Vipassana Samiti, Lord Krishna Bank
Kaloor branch, Kochi 682 017, SB account no: 310.1.30163) www.dhamma.org

Meditation 'good for brain'

2006-09-08T22:16:00.000-07:00

According to Scientists, they have found evidence thatmeditation has a biological effect on the body. A small-scale study suggests it could boost parts of the brain and the immune system. It is now catching on worldwide as a means to reduce stress or to help with pain caused by various illnesses.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States enrolled 41 people in a trial of so-called "mindfulness" meditation.

It is a technique developed by an AmericanStressreduction specialist - Jon Kabat-Zinn - for helping hospital patients deal with pain and discomfort.

Researchers measured electrical activity in the frontal part of the brain. They say this region was more active on the left side in the individuals who meditated and was associated with lower anxiety and a more positive emotional state.

Participants were also given a flu jab at the start of the study and those who meditated had higher levels of antibody, say the researchers, led by Dr Richard Davidson.

"Although our study is preliminary and more research clearly is warranted we are very encouraged by these results," he said.

Madonna Meditate

2006-09-07T21:38:00.000-07:00

Madonna meditate before the went onstage for her Prague concert.

Vaclav Havel, a former Czech president and communist dissident, joined Madonna backstage for a 'small, private prayer just between her and her people' before the Wednesday night show at a Prague arena.

'Madonna doesn't usually meet with people before a concert, but Vaclav Havel was the exception,' Hladik said.

The meditation focused on 'the humanistic mission which she tries to promote,' he said.'

During backstage meditation no clergy participated. TheMeditationsession ended when Havel presented two of his books to Madonna as gifts, Hladik said.

Film Director aims to boost meditation

2006-09-07T09:54:00.000-07:00

Film director David Lynch taking a good step towards wolrd peace.He wants to raise $7bn (£3.98bn) to introduce meditation into US schools in a bid to bring about world peace.

Twin Peaks director Lynch said he saw stress-relieving benefits of meditation in schools in Iowa and South Africa.

He aims to ensure "every child in the US who wants to meditate can learn".

Lynch added: "People laugh at $7bn but it would stay in a bank account and the interest would be enough to keep things going on a permanent basis."

"This is a way to bring real peace to earth," said Lynch.

Meditation may improve cardiac risk factors

2006-09-05T21:15:00.000-07:00

According to one of the report, Transcendental Meditation, a technique which also induces Relaxation may decrease blood pressure and reduce insulin resistance among patients with coronary heart disease.

Transcendental Meditation previously been shown to lower blood pressure but its effect on other risk factors associated with coronary heart disease, has not been thoroughly examined.

Team of Maura Paul-Labrador, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and colleagues conducted a 16-week trial of transcendental meditation in patients with coronary heart disease.

At the beginning and end of the trial, the patients fasted overnight and then gave a blood sample, participated in a medical history review and underwent tests of blood vessel function and heart rate variability.

Heart rate variability testing assesses the functioning of the autonomic nervous system, which controls the heart and other involuntary muscles.

At the end of the trial, patients in the transcendental meditation group had significantly lower blood pressure; improved fasting blood glucose and insulin levels, which signify reduced insulin resistance; and more stable functioning of the autonomic nervous system.

Now Meditation center in Hospital

2006-09-03T23:56:00.000-07:00

Now a days benefits of meditation are really getting popular. In this direction a Rajyog Meditation meditation Center has been initiated in Manipal Hospital Pokhara with an objective of providing better health care to the mental patients.

Such patients can benefit from the Rajyog medidation and exercises to make them mentally strong and physically healthy. The meditation classes will be run for them free of charge.

The centre has been run by the Bhramhakumari Ishworiya Biswo Bidhyalaya and was inaugurated by Manipal Hospital Dean Dr. SK Dham, who said that mind should be free of worries to be physically healthy.

West Nepal Chief of the Biswo Bidhyalaya Bramhakumari Parinita said healthy food and positive thinking makes people free of tensions and far from diseases.

According to Bramhakumar Shailesh such centre was opened for the first time in Nepal to help the mental patients of the hospital.

Meditation helps war vetern

2006-09-02T13:30:00.000-07:00

Some one in six Iraq veterans suffer from post-traumaticStress disorder (PTSD), some of them are taking a different path to healing:Meditation .

At a recent retreat at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, Vietnam vet Claude Anshin Thomas taught fellow veterans to confront their trauma by "waking up to how we've been affected" and applying full consciousness to the present moment. "What I'm attempting to do," says Thomas, "is create a safe space where that information will start to become accessible to them."

There may be more at work here than a spiritual centering. Dr. Tana A. Grady-Weliky, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, explains some of the science behind meditative practice. "Mindfulness meditation practice, in which one focuses on 'staying in the present' during meditation as well as other activities, appears to play a role in positive mood and attitude," Grady-Weliky writes. "Interestingly, imaging studies of individuals during meditation show higher activity in the left prefrontal cortex, which is the brain area associated with positive mood and attitude."

In the late 1980s, Thomas discovered meditation, and the practice enabled him to deal with difficult memories and feelings. He became a Zen monk in 1995.

Despite Thomas' Buddhist ties, Piasecki writes, his retreats are less about religion than mindful awareness of life, which helps the vets and others accept and integrate their traumatic pasts.

Meditation for terminally ill UK

2006-09-02T13:24:00.000-07:00

Dr Sibani Roy is aiming to set up one of the first companies in the UK to offer
Meditation to the elderly and terminally ill.

Bengal-born Dr Sibani Roy, who now lives in Rhos-on-Sea, runs an elderly people's sheltered housing block and her own company, the Swanlake Project. She wants to bring meditation to the terminally ill to help boost wellbeing.

She said, "My aim is to inform medical professionals and the general public about meditation for wellbeing and to raise awareness of living well and dying consciously, which is less distressing and more dignified for the patient.

"Many countries around the world such as America, Australia and large parts of Europe use meditation extensively to help people in palliative care and the elderly but it is less common in the UK."

The Ethnic Business Support Programme helped Dr Roy set up the Swanlake Project.
The Swanlake Project will offer a service to anyone interested in meditation, not solely the terminally and the elderly.

KEITH McDONOGH has been appointed by the North East Wales NHS Trust as a non-executive director.

Obstacles to Meditation

2006-09-01T01:32:00.000-07:00

(1)Spiritual prideThe practitioner some time has few experience or powers and filled with pride. He may try to separate himself from others thinking himself as superior. This pride is a serious obstacle in the path of experiencing the truth.

2) Motives of acquiring powersSome practitioners have hopes of acquiring powers and their motive results in attachment to such powers, which is a serious obstacle.

3) DoubtWhen practitioners have unrealistic expectations ,it results in doubt for example the beginners thinks that the kundalini will be awakened quickly and he would be filled with powers also when his faith get weakened up he try to leave the practice.

4) LazinessLaziness often effect practitioners in the beginning.

5) Sleep during meditation Some times practitioners get into sleep during meditation in initial stages.

6) HealthSometime practitioners do not do exercises and does not realize that physical body is the vehicle for attaining the truth and can be attained by strong body or some time practitioners torture the body by not taking medicine at the time of illness.

7) OvereatingPractice of overeating leads to heaviness and results into sleep during the meditation.

8) FoodThe kind of food we eat directly affect our mind apart from our body. If we eat food which is Tamasic food or Rajasic for example food with lot of chilies, or eating quickly or bitter or stale, all these kind of food leads to obstruction in the practice of meditation because of its nature.

By Subodh Gupta
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Meditation for Prisoners at Brixton UK

2006-08-30T04:30:00.000-07:00

Do not be surprised if you fine prisoners at HMP Brixton have been keeping calm reason Buddhist monk's relaxation classes are conducted.

Thanks to the Venerable Sangthong, a monk from Wimbledon's Buddhapadipa temple , inmates have been relaxing with meditation rather than medication.Sangthong said: "I started doing the classes at the request of one of the officers at the prison."I came in and taught the basics of breathing and meditation, of relaxing into the rise and fall of the abdomen."Although the meditation is based on the Buddhist dhamma, meaning doctrine or beliefs, the Venerable Sangthong stresses there is no religious aspect to his weekly classes.Brixton prison's C Wing is for prisoners who have completed, are on or are waiting to go on a drug treatment programme.

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What is Meditation

2006-08-28T23:57:00.000-07:00

Meditation can be considered a technique, or practice. It usually involves concentrating on an object, such as a flower, a candle, a sound or word, or the breath. Over time, the number of random thoughts occurring diminishes.Experiences during meditation probably vary significantly from one individual to another, or at least if different techniques are involved. Relaxation, increased awareness, mental focus and clarity, and a sense of peace are the most common bi-products of meditation. While much has been written about the benefits of meditation, the best attitude is not to have any expectations when practicing. Having a sense of expectation of (positive) results is likely to create unnecessary strain in the practice.What generally are considered important in meditation is that one is regular with their meditation -every day, and that one makes a reasonable effort, without any strain, to remain with the object of concentration during the practice. With regular practice one inevitably acquires an increased understanding and
proficiency with the particular meditation technique.

By Subodh Gupta Corporate Trainer
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