Practice this 3-Minute Breathing Exercise to Get Calm in Any Situation
Christina Sarich – This simple exercise can calm you down and eliminate stress in three minutes or less.
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Neuroscience Shows Why Breath Practices During Meditation Help with ADHD
Anna Hunt – Neuroscientists show that breath practices are a potential non-pharmacological treatment for attention-compromised conditions.
Neuroscientists Discover a Unique Link Between Breathing and the Brain
Anna Hunt – The human brain is quite different from other mammals.
Rhythm of Breathing Key to Controlling Fear and Emotional Behavior
Alex Pietrowski – Knowing how to breathe properly can impact fear and memory.
A Simple Idea for Better Health and Control of Your Emotions
Anna Hunt – Breathing practices may help you improve your health and have better control over your emotions and actions.
5 Things Happy People do Before Getting Out of Bed Each Morning
Paul Lenda – These five things can be looked at as life hacks because they’re so simple and easy to add to our daily routine yet so effective that it begs the question why we weren’t doing them before.
The Many Health Benefits of Pranyama Yoga Breathing
Carolanne Wright, Guest Waking Times Forget the detox pills, fasts and other painful cleansing techniques – instead, take a cue from the yogis of India and look to the breath. Using yogic breathing techniques, we can effortlessly detoxify, burn fat and increase metabolism. With the basic act of bringing in more oxygen, vitamins and minerals …
Top 5 Tips for a Naturally Healthy Winter
Alex Redmond, Contributor Waking Times It’s that time of year for making snowmen and snug duvet days watching your favourite films. Unfortunately this time of year is not always merry-making and fun, it’s also the season of colds, flu and general ill health. The good news is there are really simple, easy and natural things …
Relaxation Response Practice Like Deep Breathing or Meditation Found to Alter Genes
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times The well known and once Harvard doctor Herbert Benson who coined the term ‘relaxation response’ has been providing insightful research to explain what seekers and adepts have known for centuries, namely that practices which induce ‘deep rest’ like prayer, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, progressive muscle relaxation, and deep breathing produce very …
Follow Your Heart: Healing from Cardiovascular Disease with Qi Gong Exercise
Paul Cavel, Contributor Waking Times Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) include hypertension (high blood pressure), coronary heart disease (heart attacks), cerebrovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease and heart failure. Heart Disease: Why Your Cardio Health Matters The World Health Organization reports that “An estimated 17 million people die of CVDs, particularly heart attacks and …
Better Breathing Can Mean Better Health
Sue McAllister, Mercury News Waking Times Breathing is one of the body’s fundamental functions, yet most of us give it no more attention than we give the national product of Lichtenstein. We go about our day – doing routine tasks, making phone calls, handling problems, walking the dog – and unless we overexert ourselves or …
Mindful Breathing a Great Tool for Achieving Your Mind and Body Connection
Mike Barrett Waking Times While seldom consciously recognized, most people truly do lack self-connectedness. This can be exemplified through a mere observation of how most people breath every day. Breaths are usually taken in short bouts which ultimately bring about some degree of stress, rather than deeper breaths that are subsequently more relaxing. These short …
Relaxation and Meditation Are Just as Critical to Health as Diet and Exercise
You gotta relax, man. Life in 2012 means a degree of stress, for just about everyone. Our bodies and minds can take a lot of abuse, but its all too easy to get into a negative cycle, and just keep sinking. You don’t sleep well, you get up late, so you don’t eat, your blood sugar is low, so your temper is short, etc. Stress. If you need more time, more energy, or better sleep, then its worth taking the time to relax and meditate.