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    Health  and  wellness  tips  for  your  work,  home  and  life—brought  to  
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    techniques, but concentrative, mindful and


    SELF-CARE: transcendental are the most common.
    Meditation During concentrative meditation you focus your
    actually RELAXATION attention on a single sound, object or breathing pattern to
    bring about a calm, tranquil mind.
    makes your TECHNIQUES During mindful meditation, you keep your mind aware,
    mind calmer Pain and stress can end up causing physical, mental
    but you do not react to sensations, feelings or images
    going on around you.
    and more or emotional issues. Often this physical or emotional
    pain significantly impacts our health, happiness and
    During transcendental meditation, you put your body at

    focused. A overall quality of life. Learning how to relax can


    lessen the impact that this pain has on your life.
    full rest but keep your mind fully alert, bringing about a
    deep state of relaxation.

    simple 10 or The Pain Cycle


    Benefits of Better Breathing

    15 minutes Perhaps the first step to healing ourselves is learning


    Breathing is not only an important part of the meditative
    process, but used independently can be another effective
    of to better understand how our body reacts to and
    deals with stress and pain. Once pain occurs,
    self-help technique. Shallow or poor breathing
    contributes to many health disorders as well. Even
    meditation
    whether from an injury or other source, your
    though breathing is an automatic response, there are
    psychological reaction to it can have a strong effect
    times when mentally adjusting the way we breathe can
    on its intensity and duration. For some people, pain
    can help you can become a vicious cycle: pain causes anxiety and
    benefit our health and sense of well-being. For example,
    breathing deeply from your abdomen rather than your
    tension, and anxiety and tension cause more pain.
    overcome Many common health disorders, such as migraines,
    chest increases your oxygen intake. Shallow breathing
    inhibits the release of carbon dioxide from your body,
    involve tension as a contributing source of the initial
    stress and pain. By using relaxation techniques, one can release
    creating an imbalance that can contribute to poor health.
    By practicing proper breathing techniques, you can
    tension, greatly reduce certain types of pain and
    find some sometimes actually prevent the pain from occurring.
    increase your lung capacity and energy levels, speed the
    healing process of many disorders, and relieve anxiety,
    Relaxation techniques, such as meditation and
    inner peace breathing exercises, are simple methods you can use
    insomnia and stress.
    to relax and break your pain cycle.
    and balance. Meditation as Medicine

    Meditation is an activity that can calm your mind


    and keep you focused on the present. In a meditative
    state, you can clear your mind of cluttered thoughts
    and memories. Studies even show meditation is
    effective in controlling anxiety, enhancing the
    immune system and reducing conditions such as
    high blood pressure, substance abuse and chronic
    pain. There are numerous kinds of meditative

    This  brochure  is  for  informational  purposes  only  and  is  not  intended  as  medical  advice.  For  further  information,  please  consult  
    a  medical  professional.  ©  2014  Zywave,  Inc.  All  rights  reserved.  
     
     
     

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