Meditation Aids
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Polder TMR-2125 Buzz and Beep Digital Timer, White List Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.49  |
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This Timer Digital Buzz/Vibrate & Beep - Polder #TMR-2125 has great features like the silent vibrate/buzz option iwhen if you don't want the beeping noise, a loud beeping sound when you do and both for the ultimate alert... |
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Healing Sounds of Nature - Thunderstorm, Rain and Ocean Waves List Price: $16.50 Sale Price: $16.50 |
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Improve the quality of your rest, aid concentration and provide ambiance with this gorgeously crisp, high fidelity and best selling recording of the pure sounds of a thunderstorm, rain and ocean wavesThe supple, primal rhythms of nature will calm your mind, ease away stress and cover background noise... |
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Sleep Soundly (Relaxing music plus subliminal affirmations) List Price: $13.98 Sale Price: $8.54 |
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Inner peace music with subliminal affirmations.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HALPERN,STEVENTitle: SLEEP SOUNDLYStreet Release Date: 09/07/2004 |
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Meditations2Go Guided Audio Meditations CD Set 1 Sale Price: $14.99 |
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Meditations2Go CD Set 1 features two full-length, fully immersive guided audio meditations (synchronized music and narration) on a single Audio CD. Track 1: "Restoring Balance and Clarity" (26:48 minutes)... |
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From Negative to Positive |
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This video is part of an ongoing monthly series in the teachings of Sri Eknath Easwaran. The talks on this tape, like all of Easwaran'st talks, are rich and deep in content. They shed light on many aspects of life, but their true value emerges as we try to apply their teachings in our daily lives... |
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Living with AIDS Through Yoga and Meditation with Father Joe Pereira |
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This videotape includes demonstrations of gentle, supportive Yoga postures for persons living with HIV/AIDS, even if in a state of fatigue, and also includes a segment on meditation and breath awareness... |
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Relax Naturally List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $14.95 |
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Relax Naturally guides you through majestic and relaxing scenes of nature. Filmed in high definition, this 70 minute DVD includes views and sounds of:- Laguna Beach California- Oregon Rain Forest- Oregon Waterfalls- Oregon Coastline- and a Camp FireDisappear in the natural sounds and beauty of these wonderful relaxing landscapes... |
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Meditation for Good health List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $29.95 |
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Discover the gift of relaxation with the ancient practice of meditation. Meditation allows us to cope with stresses and strains naturally and without drugs. This program is designed specifically for individuals suffering from an illness... |
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Rediscovering the Benefits of Meditation?
People are now going back to ancient practices because they know that the modern times have been causing them too much stress. Of all the means of relaxation out there, more and more people are looking forward to experience the benefits of meditation.
Because of its effectiveness in terms of calming the mind and developing a person's level of intuition, meditation has now being performed not just a means of clearing the mind and inner reflection but also to heal various illnesses in the mind, emotions, and physical aspects.
Meditation and its benefits
One of the most celebrated benefits of meditation is that it greatly helps the person's physical state. Among the physical benefits of meditation involve the heart through a deep rest because it decreases the person's metabolic rate as well as the heart rate, which leads to the reduction of workload for the heart. Aside from that, it is also known to lower the levels of a person's cortisol as well as dissolving the chemicals that are closely associated with everyday stress.
Other physical benefits of meditation also include reduced free radicals in the body by eliminating oxygen molecules that are unstable, decreases a person's high blood pressure, develops the ability to have more resistant skin, lowering or totally dropping the person's level of cholesterol, improve air flow to the lungs to aid easy breathing, delays biological aging and increases the levels of DHEAS in older people.
When it comes to psychological factor, meditation aids in increasing the person's brain wave coherence, decreasing anxiety levels, often irritability, deep-set depression, and swing of moods, improves the person's memory as well as his or her learning ability, increases the person's ability for self-actualization, increases the person's feeling of youthfulness and rejuvenation as well as vitality, leads to positive outlook in life and joyfulness, and increases a person's emotional status and stability.
Other noted benefits of meditation for an individual and his or her community include:
- Relaxation to the person's the body, mind, and soul.
- Rejuvenation of energy to face the heavy challenges and stress ahead.
- Healing of various illnesses that are closely-associated with the mind and the body.
- Making a more stable person in terms of emotions.
- Developments of relaxed family life and instilling positive outlooks in life to younger people.
- Enhances the person's ability to make his or her mind function properly.
- Letting a person discover his or her inner self, this in turn releases the creativity in them.
- It helps people to free themselves from various vices and addictions such as alcohol and cigarettes as well as in various medications such as tranquilizers and narcotics.
- It also helps a person to gain higher self-confidence, thus, resulting to stronger power of the will.
- It can be an effective and safe way of discovering one's self instead of focusing the attention to other unhealthy practices.
- It aids in the development of the power of the mind.
The list goes on about the benefits of mediation in an individual and to his or her community. In so many cases, these are positive benefits but once mediation has not been used properly, people should be aware of the side effects. To avoid this from happening, people who are planning to get serious in meditation should always consult a professional before performing any meditation techniques.
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