How Mindfulness Meditation Can Calm You Down

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I can't see the raisin's color, texture, etc.! I'm too busy hoovering them in! I'll keep this in mind next time - I hope!

Cmangujm of TX 6:41PM August 14, 2011

The shamanic journey is a technique for accessing higher mind levels to get answers on questions that are important to you, to gain insights and achieve profound understandings. It is a great tool also to use for training the body and mind to enter deep states of total relaxation. At a minimum, you will learn how to release stress.
Visit:
http://unlimitedinnerpower.com/journeylaunch/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKkoVhFKaSE

ShamanicWisdom of CA 11:05AM March 22, 2011

There is relaxation, and there is RELAXATION! Namely, the behavioral Patterns Phenomenon is so diversified that few may react the same way to stress conditions. I'm sure that not only myslef feels relaxed when creating rather than dragging floating visions dreama or no dreams.
Eating right, exercise both our mind and your body, while not poisoning oneself with chemically injected ingredients or even drugs, it's certainly
desirable. BUT... how many do really understand why and how things function? While the schools, media and the Authorities try to inform us,
there is no concentrated effort to conduct a War on Ignorance to the point that people make a better choice for themselves.
For the human kind is subject in good part to the same bio-cycles that other species go through with the only difference that it imposes a pseudo-morality without any ethical considerations. Hence, the immediate need for enhancing the War on Ignorance for us to make better choices for ourselves and the Country we love. Or do we?

Raoul Alteresco of CA 2:06PM November 18, 2010

Dear Terry,
You may not be able to make amends, but you can forgive yourself especiallly when you have a such a kind understanding wife. Count your blessings instead. You are so blesssed to have a life partner like that so dwell on that thought and enjoy the rest of your time together.

Sharada 7:35AM April 17, 2010

Dear Terry,
You may not be able to make amends, but you can forgive yourself especiallly when you have a such a kind understanding wife. Count your blessings instead. You are so blesssed to have a life partner like that so dwell on that thought and enjoy the rest of your time together.

Sharada 7:33AM April 17, 2010

Meditation was a life-saver for me for me.

terri of OH 10:58AM February 14, 2010

The big problem for me when people tell me to look at dogs and cats and copy them is that I am not a dog or cat, I am a human being. I think and feel in ways that animals don't and can't. I feel emotions that animals can't, I have memories and imagination. I have insights into how I feel and how other people feel. A dog doesn't let bad experiences interfere with surviving in any conscious way - they don't make a decision to behave like that, they don't have that capability - they just do what they do. Some people live long and contented lives for a myriad of reasons not only because they are too busy living to have regrets etc. I'm sorry but life just isn't that simple.

Jane 5:13AM January 08, 2010

Being in England and reading an artical called;
"Increasing Your Creative Ability 400%"
"Learn More in less Time" "By Doing Nothing"
A small leaflet on 'Mindfulness'
The leaflet and the above comments relate to depression, but,
I have not read any causes, problems or remidies on 'Situations that cause depressions'
My Wife and I have worked together all our working life (now being 71 respectively) We have had several Business's, none being completely successful, and I have to say now, not for the want of trying.
Our last venture started in 1988 by us selling our property to purchase a large shop (newsagents,fancy goods,stationary etc)
in a lovely Seaside Town, a short distance from the Sea, Having no pension, this gave us the opportunity to provide for our later years, although we were already Fifty Years of age,
We didn't mind the Hours 4AM to 7PM or the fact that it was
7 days a Week, 52 Weeks a Years - because of the NEWSPAPERS.
We managed this for 10 Years, untill the Local Council rerouted
our main road via another system causing us to lose our passing trade, at that time heavy advertising from the Holiday Brochures promoting Sun-Sea-Sand in Spain, caused People to go Abroad for their Holidays. At the same time our Country went into a 'DEPPRESSION'.
Not taking enough money to cover our loan committment, the BANK
recalled the loan (forclosed) forcing us into Bankruptcy in 1997
We lost everything including our investment (house money) savings,We walked away with our suitcases into rented accommodation.
As a Man we can stand a certain amount of loss and adjustment, but my Wife did not deserve such a disasterous outcome.
I alone carry this burden, for convincing her to support me in my business ventures.
The year is now 2009 and I see no release from my responsibility
and suffer heavely from guilt, because I have no time left to make amends. My Wife (God Bless Her) holds me no grudge and we
try to make the best of what we have, but doctors pills and reading books has not released me from this depression.
BECAUSE; There is no time left to make amends.

Terry Maidlow 12:16PM November 19, 2009

....it. You know, it. Yea I said it. That and a combination of St. John's wort and meditation is the perfect cocktail to relieve what ails you. In your face big pharma!

Suzette of CA 12:44PM March 05, 2009

We don't need a doctor or a guru to live fully productive lives without stress.
Pay attention to a dog or a cat They live full moment by moment, not moment to moment. We develop behavior conditioned by anticipation or expectation. We live in a world of might be, could be, or should be, and miss the real world passing us by.
The dog may be abused. He may learn to be wary, but he will not let that interfere with the living, sleeping, eating, and sharing of immediate experiences.
People who live long lives in contentment are those who accept each moment as reality and are too busy living to have regrets or interruptions with what might be or might have been cluttering their lives.

Morton Kurzweil of FL 3:09PM March 03, 2009