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Mindfulness for Comfort and Wellbeing and iRest Yoga Nidra are meditation programs supported by medical evidence. They use the principles of ancient eastern practices and western neuroplasticity to rebalance pathways that have been altered through our instinctual but often ineffective attempts to adapt to chronic pain and illness or trauma. The greater awareness and non judgemental responding skills developed lead the practitioners to greater comfort and peace.
Complete 10 session course for just $200.
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Complete 10 session course for just $200.
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Scientific papers prove that mindfulness
reduces pain, enhances mental and physical well-being, and helps people deal with the stresses and strains of daily life.
Here are a few of the main findings:
• Mindfulness can dramatically reduce pain and the emotional reaction to it. Recent trials suggest that average pain “unpleasantness” levels can be reduced by 57 percent.
• Clinical trials show that mindfulness improves mood and quality of life in chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and lower back pain, in chronic functional disorders such as IBS, and in challenging medical illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and cancer.
• Mindfulness improves working memory, creativity, attention span, and reaction speeds. It also enhances mental and physical
• Meditation enhances brain function. It increases gray matter in areas associated with self-awareness, empathy, self-control, and attention. It soothes the parts of the brain that produce stress hormones and builds those areas that lift mood and promote learning. It even reduces some of the thinning of certain areas of the brain that naturally occurs with aging.
• Mindfulness is at least as good as drugs or counseling for the treatment of clinical-level depression.
• Mindfulness reduces addictive and self-destructive behaviors. These include the abuse of illegal and prescription drugs and excessive alcohol intake.
• Meditation improves the immune system. Regular meditators are admitted to the hospital far less often for cancer, heart disease, and numerous infectious diseases.
• Mindfulness may reduce aging at the cellular level by promoting chromosomal health and resilience.
• Meditation and mindfulness improve control of blood sugar in type 2 diabetes.
• Meditation improves heart and circulatory health by reducing blood pressure and lowering the risk of hypertension. Mindfulness reduces the risks of developing and dying from cardiovascular disease and lowers its severity should it arise.