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Holistic Health, Meditations for You!, Mind-Body Connection, Prevention, Relaxation & Meditation, Self Care, Spirituality
The Power of Meditation
“The Power of Meditation: This practice of focused attention can reduce pain and stress while enhancing health and healing” This article was originally published on ADVANCE for OT Practitioners October 1, 2015 by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Meditation is the practice of focused attention that can help calm the mind and body, returning it to a homeostatic balance. It can regulate emotions, lower pain and stress, ease depression and insomnia, create clearer awareness and insight, improve spirituality, compassion, and quality of life, and has many health benefits. Modern science has caught up to what Eastern philosophies and many spiritual traditions have known and practiced for thousands of years.1 A nationwide survey…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Holistic Health, Mind-Body Connection, Relaxation & Meditation, The Science of Happiness
Bringing Healing to Pain: The Mind-Body Connection and What May Be Behind Your Pain
Are you experiencing pain or know someone who is? While it is good to get checked out by a qualified health care practitioner to determine if there may be a physical solution to your physical pain, there may be more behind your pain that you may be able to heal. According to the National Institutes for Health pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. Pain is cited as the most common reason Americans access the health care system. It is a leading cause of disability and it is a major contributor to health care costs. Dr. Herbert Benson, who coined the term the Relaxation Response, stated that 60%…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Holistic Health, Positive & Negative, Self Care, The Science of Happiness
10 Ways to Balance Your Emotions for Good Health
How are you feeling? Likely, you are feeling many different feelings, emotions, and physical sensations. Did you know that how you feel and your emotions can greatly impact your health and well-being? What is happening with your thoughts? Thoughts are connected to emotions, but which came first – the emotion or thought? The mind and body are one. Our thoughts affect our emotions, the body’s functions, and our emotions and feelings affect our mind, thoughts, and outlook. How You Handle Your Emotions Can Impact Your Health We often think of emotions in terms as good or bad. We tend to avoid or reject unpleasant ones and try to hold on…
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Emotional Healing, Guided Imagery, Holistic Health, Mind-Body Connection, Positive & Negative, Prevention, Self Care, The Science of Happiness
Happy Valentine’s! How Much Do You Love Yourself?
With Valentine’s just around the corner, we often turn our attention to “that someone special” or romantic love. Intimacy and connection with others is important to us, but how much do you love or even like yourself? After 7 years of providing deep emotional support and healing after being trained in “Emotional Clearing”, a form of interactive guided mindfulness meditation, similar to Vipassana, a Buddhist meditation which means “clear-seeing”, and what Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is based on, and providing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), I have witnessed how all types of emotional, psychological, spiritual, and often, physical pain go back to how much a person loves and accepts or rejects…
