Balance Healing Center
Mission
Balance Healing Center is dedicated to helping customers create and maintain balanced and healthy lives through eastern and western alternative medicine.
Vision
Our experienced practitioners provide quality treatments and client education in an unassuming yet elegant atmosphere to create a practical, personalized plan which treats the source of current and potential health issues instead of only masking symptoms.
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The Scoop on Meditation
A Simple Practice with Profound Benefits
People who meditate regularly appear internally and externally five to 10 years younger than their non-meditating peers, according to author Deepak Chopra. That's good news for the estimated 10 million people who practice meditation on an ongoing basis and experience the resulting calm it cultivates.
The rich benefits come from doing
something that looks like nothing:
Sitting still, being quiet, and breathing
deeply. Meditation works simply but
profoundly by defusing the onslaughts
of life -- a racing mind, busyness,
deadlines, commutes, all of which have
physiological effects on well-being.
Meditation calms the nervous system,
decreases metabolic rate, heart rate, and
blood pressure, and lowers levels of
cholesterol, stress hormones, and free
radicals. It also has a direct effect on
breathing, slowing and deepening
respiration so more oxygen circulates
throughout the body. Not only that,
meditation is said to lessen feelings of
anxiety and depression and improve
memory and concentration. And all of
this culminates in slowing the aging
process, as Chopra notes.
There are many meditation techniques, including focusing on a mantra, a sacred word or phrase, or your breath. But the basic intent of all meditation is focus and attention. And it doesn't take hours a day in an ashram to meditate effectively. Benefits kick in with even a short period of devoted time.
How to begin? Wear comfortable, unrestrictive clothes, sit on a cushion or chair with your back straight (think once again, comfort), rest your hands on your legs, let your eyes go soft and out of focus or close them, breathe slowly and deeply, and -- the hardest part -- attempt to empty your mind of thoughts and quiet the internal dialogue. When thoughts flit through your mind, let them pass without judging them and come back to your focus (your mantra, counting, etc.) and breathing.
Start with this sitting meditation technique for five minutes a day, and add on time as you get more at ease with the process. For more information on techniques and benefits, join us any Thursday at 7pm for meditation with Karen.
