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Four ways Meditation Helps Boost Bodybuilding Performance

By Guest PostApril 10, 2020Healthactive meditation, bodybuilding, deep breathing exercises, lungs, meditation, mental strength

Bodybuilding in today’s time has not just become a competitive sport but has become an integral part of the day for many. Keeping one’s body fit has become a critical aspect that has driven people towards bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is not just lifting weights or the number of pushups one can do at once. It is much more than a physical exertion to the body, although a majority of the bodybuilding exercises require the physical body to be in a robust dynamic state. It also involves mental effort and mental conditioning of the body. In such a practice where the entire body is in motion, improving the performance and getting better results can be game-changing. (more…)

3 Options for Coping with Social Anxiety

By Guest PostJuly 30, 2016General, Health, Scienceadam cook, addiction, addictionhub, asd, coping, meditation, ptsd, self medication, social anxiety, website, yoga

Social anxiety can be a crippling disability to live with. It can interfere with your ability to make friends, find romantic connections, and even leave your home. Learning to cope properly is important because many people resort to self-medication, which leads to addiction. Healthy ways to manage anxiety come in many forms, and each person needs to find what works for them. With that in mind, we share a few options for people to cope with social anxiety in healthy ways. (more…)

Meditation and ballet associated with wisdom, study says

By Guest PostMay 17, 2016Health, Scienceballet, Chicago, joffrey ballet, meditation, monika ardelt, pain reduction technique, wisdom

Wisdom, traditionally associated with old age, is nonetheless found in people of all ages. So, what makes a person wise?

A new study, “The Relationship between Mental and Somatic Practices and Wisdom,” published Feb. 18 in PLOS ONE, confirms an age-old conception that meditation is associated with wisdom. Surprisingly, it also concludes that somatic, or physical, practices such as classical ballet might lead to increased wisdom. (more…)

Men: Do These 7 Things for Your Heart

By Guest PostJune 21, 2014Healthalpine insects, avalanche, body mass index, ftsz, glacier national park, heart disease, joe giersch, khloe kardashian, kw factor, lamar odom, meditation, meltwater stonefly, men, symptoms, walk, zellteilung

June is National Men’s Health Month and CPR and AED Awareness Month.

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men, and the hearts of one of eight men over age 40 will at some point suddenly stop beating – an event known as sudden cardiac arrest.

June is both National Men’s Health Month and CPR and AED Awareness Month, making it a good time to revisit ways to prevent heart disease. (more…)

Meditation helps pinpoint neurological differences between two types of love

By Guest PostFebruary 11, 2014Healthdalai llama, hallmark card, judson brewer, kathleen garrison, love, meditation, mother theresa, neurological difference, picture of cocaine, postdoctoral researcher, starbucks, two types, university of massachusetts

These findings won’t appear on any Hallmark card, but romantic love tends to activate the same reward areas of the brain as cocaine, research has shown.

Now Yale School of Medicine researchers studying meditators have found that a more selfless variety of love — a deep and genuine wish for the happiness of others without expectation of reward — actually turns off the same reward areas that light up when lovers see each other. (more…)

The value of seeing a mind in meditation

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2013Health, Sciencejudson brewer, meditation, mindfulness, neurofeedback techniques, seeing a mind, video, yale university

Using neurofeedback techniques, Dr. Judson Brewer of Yale says he can teach people to “see” the subjective experience known to meditators as mindfulness. Brewer explains that too often we trip ourselves up when we get caught up in our own thinking. In the video and accompanying research papers, Brewer and colleagues describe how subjects can […]

Meditation Reduces Loneliness

By Guest PostAugust 15, 2012Health, Sciencealzheimer's disease, brain, chronic inflammation, crp, david creswell, depression, expression, heart disease, helen lavretsky, immune system, infection, inflammation, inflammatory gene, loneliness, mbsr, meditation, meditative technique, michael irwin, mindfulness, natural component, nf kb, pro inflammatory gene, protein marker, risk, tai chi, yoga

UCLA study also finds that mindfulness technique benefits immune system

Many elderly people spend their last years alone. Spouses pass and children scatter. But being lonely is much more than a silent house and a lack of companionship. Over time, loneliness not only takes a toll on the psyche but can have a serious physical impact as well.

Feeling lonely has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, depression and even premature death. Developing effective treatments to reduce loneliness in older adults is essential, but previous treatment efforts have had limited success. (more…)

Breast Cancer Survivors Benefit From Practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, MU Researchers Find

By Guest PostDecember 31, 2011Healthamerican cancer society, breast cancer, health challenges, jane armer, lifestyles and belief, mbsr, meditation, meditation technique, mindfulness, mindfulness based stress reduction, physical awareness, positive effects, post diagnosis, survivors, university of missouri, women, yaowarat matchim, yoga

*Survivors’ psychological and physiological health improved after training*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Women recently diagnosed with breast cancer have higher survival rates than those diagnosed in previous decades, according to the American Cancer Society. However, survivors continue to face health challenges after their treatments end. Previous research reports as many as 50 percent of breast cancer survivors are depressed. Now, University of Missouri researchers in the Sinclair School of Nursing say a meditation technique can help breast cancer survivors improve their emotional and physical well-being. (more…)

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