10 more ways to find the motivation to get desired results

Don't despair; it happens to the best of us. Workouts that were once invigorating can become flat and tired. Even your mind can get stuck in a rut. Break out of that slump with these 20 ways to fire up your intensity........(read more)

10 ways to increase your motivation to get the results you want

Don't despair; it happens to the best of us. Workouts that were once invigorating can become flat and tired. Even your mind can get stuck in a rut. Break out of that slump with these 20 ways to fire up your intensity.........(read more)

Five yoga moves to ease mind, body, and spirit

With eyes closed, close right nostril with right thumb. Inhale and exhale slowly and deeply five times through left nostril. Open right nostril and close left nostril with ring finger; inhale and exhale five times. Release and lower hand. Breathe five times through both nostrils. Repeat entire cycle three to five times. This technique delivers extra oxygen to the blood and lowers stress........(read more)

Health benefits of meditation

Meditating can be of tremendous help to correct health conditions that are exacerbated by stress, such as nervous conditions, headaches, mood swings, back pain, and even hypertension. Some folks have found that meditation, when used in conjunction with medical treatment, helps them heal more rapidly from serious illness..........(read more)

How to meditate

Once you've mastered correct breathing, you can learn to meditate by using the following suggestions:First, locate a quiet room where you can sit in peace. You may want to lower the lights or turn them off and use candles. Burning incense, particularly frankincense and myrrh, also helps create the right atmosphere. Some people set the mood by wrapping themselves.........(read more)

Meditation: what is it?

Aside from determining its physiological effects, defining the actual act of meditation can be as elusive as imagining the sound of one hand clapping. It is a highly alert and skillful state of mind because it requires one to remain psychologically present and with whatever happens in and around one, without adding to or subtracting from that present in any way......(read more)

Your moment of truth

We may not always recognize them as they're happening, but we look back and they are crystal clear--the turning points that shape our lives, alter our direction, offer us a deeper understanding of who we are or want to become. Moments of truth often come in the guise of a challenge or even a crisis; an experience that threatens to topple us rather than teach us.......(read more)

Relaxation and its benefits

Relaxation therapy has been around for thousands of years in the forms of transcendental meditation (TM), yoga, tai chi , qigong, and vipassana (a Buddhist form of meditation meaning insight, and also known as mindful meditation). Progressive relaxation, a treatment that rids the body of anxiety and related tension through progressive relaxation of the muscle groups, was first described by Dr. Edmund Jacobson in.........(read more)

Relaxation methods

There are a number of different relaxation methods available. Some of the most widely taught and practiced by healthcare providers include progressive relaxation, cue-controlled relaxation,andofeedback Progressive relaxation Progressive relaxation is performed by first tensing, and then relaxing, the....(read more)

Relaxation therapies and preparations

There are dozens of other effective therapies that promote relaxation, including hypnosis, meditation, yoga, aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, tai chi, massage, and art therapy. Individuals should choose a type of relaxation therapy that is based on their own unique interests and lifestyle requirements......(read more)

Some motivational quotes

Analyze yourselves, and you will find that every blow you have received came to you because you prepared yourself for it.""Be not disheartened. When good nectar is unattainable, it is no reason why we should eat poison.""Blame neither man, nor god, nor anyone in the world. When you find.....(read more)

Techniques for relaxation

Often called "meditation in motion," tai chi is a series of slow continuous moves, all of which emanate from the center of the body. "Working from your physical center is sort of a metaphor for learning to be more centered and balanced in life," explains Nikki Winston, a tai chi teacher at the Golden Door, a spa in Escondido, California. Some students seek out tai chi as a system of self-defense......(read more)

What does meditation do for you?

Certainly anything that helps fight stress is a welcome tool. But what else might meditation be doing for us? Many studies have shown that meditation not only has a mental effect on the body, but a profound physiological effect as well. Studies have shown that, among other benefits, meditation can help reverse heart disease, the number-one killer in the U.S......(read more)

Yoga for business

No one knows if ancient yogis thought much about improving the workplace by teaching classes in breathing, bending, arching, stretching, and lunging. It seems unlikely they ever dreamed that the practice of yoga would one day have a thing to do with the bottom line.But they would, no doubt, be tickled pink to learn that the holistic Indian tradition would one day be conside........(read more)

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