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Jan
27
Meditation: Mindfulness Meditation Research
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing
I find this incredibly exciting! — science has substantiated the amazingly beneficial results of Meditation! ‘Interested? Read on …
A review of 47 randomized clinical studies of meditation was recently published in the internal medicine version of the Journal of the American Medical Association. These c
linical trials involved a total of 3,515 subjects.
The findings provided scientific evidence of the benefits of meditation for people with a medical condition. It included effects against depression similar in size to the effects of antidepressant drugs. Meditation programs — specifically Mindfulness Meditation — were found to result in improvements in anxiety, depression and pain.
The review was led by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Madhav Goval. This researcher concluded: “Our review indicates that meditation programs can reduce the negative dimensions of psychological stress. Mindfulness meditation programs, in particular, show … improvements in anxiety, depression, and pain.”
So, what does this mean for you? It means that Read more
Jan
21
Resolutions: Additional Pitfalls that Can Cause Goals to Fail
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing
If you have trouble coming up with a definitive goal, it could help to talk to a counselor or another person whom you trust. This also applies if you have tried to make changes in your life and just cannot reach your goals, 
seeking advice could be a positive solution.
Another pitfall of New Year’s Resolutions is that they can allow you to become extremely self-critical. Do not set yourself an unattainable resolution. Rather, endeavor to choose a goal or Resolution that is realistic. You are much better off breaking up a larger resolution into manageable chunks and, then, dividing each chunk or segment throughout the year.
Remember a year is a long time and if you force yourself to stick to something, without allowing yourself to go off course, you may never achieve your goal. Do not punish yourself if you go off track. Just identify that you have and the reason why and then just get back on track as soon as possible. By doing this, you will see much healthier Read more
Jan
18
Resolution: Brain Science for Mental Agility — Learning New Skills
Filed Under Mental Healing, Physical Healing
Resolutions — Resolving to change is an important element to guide your Goal Focus. Have you gone to our site 
and downloaded your Free Report yet?   http://thelifecoachdr.com/resolution — Just click on the “Free Report” tab at the top of the page.
Resolutions don’t always have to be about quitting smoking or getting more fit. What about learning something you’ve always wanted to learn?
Perhaps you want to start a blog or turn a hobby into an income earner. The internet makes it so much easier to share information and to learn. If you can think of a topic chances are there is a tutorial or webinar waiting for you on the web.
Web learning is appealing because courses are available for download or online 24 hours a day. You can work on them after you return home from work and the kids are in bed. Some offer audio versions you can transfer to an iPod or Smartphone and listen to during your commute – or during your afternoon walk.
There’s no arguing that we are all getting older, but age affects our brain “muscle†as much as the rest of our framework. The Administration on Aging predicts that there will be 72.1 million Americans aged 65 and over by the year 2030 – 19% Read more
Jan
6
Resolutions: Common Pitfalls that Cause Goals to Fail
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing
Setting a goal or selecting a New Year’s resolution can be a powerful and motivational tool. At the same time, this can become a downfall for many people. It is so important to set and approach your resolution or goal correctly.
One common pitfall is beginning a resolution or goal when your mind is not ready for it. If you are the type of person who makes the same resolution/goal each year, you need to understand why you are not achieving it. This applies as well to people who are trying to lose weight and lead a healthy lifestyle.
It can be very easy to make a New Year’s Resolution or choose a goal. However, it is important to follow through with it. For example if you are not motivated enough to lose weight, don’t just make a to lose 10 pounds by Spring. Instead, take a deep look inside yourself and uncover your true feelings about losing weight.
Some self-awareness questions you might ask yourself preparatory to losing weight are:
- Why do I want to lose weight? Why is this important to me?
- Why have my past attempts met with failure?
- What are the benefits that I’m looking for from losing weight?
- What are the obstacles Read more
Dec
22
Holidays are times for relaxation and enjoyment! With the holidays rapidly approaching, how can you hasten your preparedness?
What can you do today — right now! — to add joy and relaxation and fun to your day?
Dec
15
We are approaching the holidays. Here is a gift for you … one that I’m hoping brings you a sense of enduring calm and stillness!
Click on the “Download Video” link (above). Then, just allow yourself to relax … and let this sample of Holiday Joy & Peace to fill your whole being …
Nov
23
Stress Facts: You CAN Reduce Stress!
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Spiritual Healing
The statistics are staggering. Either directly or indirectly stress accounts for 80 percent of all illnesses.
In fact, stress is more dangerous than we thought. You’ve probably heard that it can raise your blood pressure, increasing the likelihood of a stroke in the distant future, but recently a health insurance brochure claimed that 90 percent of visits to a primary care physician were stress-related disorders.
The American Psychology Association, along with many health magazines, reports that chronic stress can interfere with the normal function of the body’s immune system. Studies have proven that stressed individuals have an increased vulnerability to catching an illness and are more susceptible to allergic, autoimmune, or cardiovascular diseases.
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So, what can you do to reduce the debilitating effects of stress? You can listen to music!
That’s right — music has been found to promote relaxation. Music is a significant mood-changer and reliever of stress, working on many levels at once.
The entire human energetic system is extremely influenced by sounds, the physical body and chakra centers respond specifically to certain tones and frequencies. Special consideration should be given to the positive effects Read more
Oct
24
In Gratitude …
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing
On Veterans Day, it is especially apt that we give a heart-felt THANK YOU to all of our veterans and all of our active service personnel. This picture is says it all … THANK YOU so much, Service People — one and all!
Oct
2
Stress: What to Do Now to Relieve Stress
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing
The last t
hree posts have provided you with a number of techniques to reduce the stress in your life. Now, we will look at how to put these ideas into practice.
First, choose your two favorite — or most effective — stress-relief techniques. Write these down for yourself.
Next, stay aware. Notice the situations in which your body and/or your mind begin to react to stress. Now this is important: Begin to notice this beginning-response when it is just beginning to occur. When the stress-response is just beginning to make itself known is the VERY BEST time to reverse it, to transmute it into a relaxation response.
Once you notice a beginning stress-response, use your preferred stress-relief technique #1. After applying this method for stress relief, notice what occurs.
If you find that you are still stressed, initiate your preferred stress-relief technique #2. Continue to Read more
Sep
9
Stress is active all the time—You’re late! You forgot that important document … and you need it NOW! 
You have an emergency! You’re worn out! You have pressure, pressure, pressure! And you are smack dab in the middle of all of it!
Stress is common in these modern times. While you may not be able to avoid all of it, you can adopt stress-reduction methods to minimize the damaging effects of Stress on your life. If you permit your Stress to go unrestrained, it can to lead to ill health and lack of wellness. Here are two more solid suggestions to help you keep stress from managing your life:
1. Remove Stressors:Â Determine the most damaging sources stressful situations in your everyday life; find ways to reduce it to the best of your ability. For instance, you may have a buddy that regularly drains with her/his negativity. You could benefit from limiting your exposure to this negative influence. Reducing the stress factors in your life can boost your physical and psychological health and wellness.
2. Disconnect “Buttonsâ€: You might think that you will never be able to live your life without stress; however, in actual fact, a stress-free life may be simpler to arrange than you think. By determining precisely what creates the most stress for you, you can identify your “buttons”, those repetitious triggers that – when stimulated – add to your Stress. Once you Read more
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