Anxiety & Healing Rhythms- Daily Body Scan

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Recently, WildDivine purchasers were polled. They were asked the all-important question- “why did you buy our product?” The number one answer by far was, “because my therapist/doctor recommended it to me.” People are seeking solutions to their dilemmas in life in various ways. But one of the rising trends comes from recognizing stress, and our body’s need to find ways to relax, even if the pace in people’s lives is not slowing down. The Guided Mediations and breathing techniques taught in our Healing Rhythms programs can help give people simple ways to relax, even if for just a few quick minutes in the middle of a busy day.


The easiest way to start off when practicing guided relaxation is to count your breaths as you inhale and exhale. Deep breathing relaxation methods, which involveinhaling through your nose as deeply as you can, will help your body start to relax.Hold this breath and then let it out slowly through your nose. Your heart rate willstart to slow down and your muscles will start to relax. When learning relaxationmeditation, remember to have a focus for the meditation. It requires work to focusyour mind on one point and you must be engaged in all aspects of meditating. Duringrelaxation meditation, all kinds of thoughts will come to mind. You have to learnhow to recognize these thoughts and then dismiss them so that you are still activelyinvolved in the guided relaxation. This is one of the main reasons why you need tochoose a quiet place for meditation where you will not be interrupted by the normalsounds of your life when you are teaching yourself how to relax in this manner. Meditation for beginners will be frustrating when you can’t seem to get it right thefirst time.


The key is to stay focused on meditating and to focus on your breathing techniques.The thoughts of frustration are ones that can take over and ruin relaxation methodsfor you. One great practice in meditation for beginners learning how to relax is toconcentrate on the parts of the body. Start with your toes and focus on them as youfeel them relax. Then move upward concentrating for a few minutes on each body partand how it relaxes. As you get to your head, your body will be completely relaxedand then you can concentrate on having a blank mind.


Wild Divine's Guided Meditation leader Stephen Cope gives our Healing Rhythms users this skillin his “Daily Body Scan” meditation.




Please visit my site, Anxiety Attacks, for more on anxiety, panic and effective ways to cope and heal. You are not alone in your struggle.

Blessings to you,
Ellen

Ellen DuBois, Author of I Never Held You: A book about miscarriage, healing, and recovery, Host of MiscarriageHelp.com, 20 year anxiety sufferer, and contributing author in Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News.

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A Brief History of Transcendental Meditation

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Transcendental meditation is a relatively new form of meditating in comparison with Yoga and Buddhist meditation. It was developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1957 as a way of developing the mind so that a person can rise above, or “transcend”, beyond the noise and stress of daily life. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a student of the famous Hindu Guru, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. From 1958 onwards, he travelled the world teaching his spiritual regeneration and enlightenment.

Transcendental meditation had its beginnings in the Far East and then spread to the western world. After three years of travelling and teaching, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi realized that he needed to train his followers so that they could spread this form of meditation even further.

The first international training course was held in Rishikesh, India in 1961. As more and more people all over the world realized the benefits of this form of meditation, scientists began researching it and by 1970 the first scientific papers
were published espousing the technique. Since then there have been hundreds of such documents published, all of which show that transcendental meditation:

• helps to reduce the stress levels in the body leading to overall good health
  
• helps to increase a person’s creativity
  
• helps to heighten the intelligence level of the meditator
  
• brings about self-realization
  
• could actually help you to live longer

Transcendental meditation does not have any religious affiliation, but it did have a political association in the Natural Law Party. This political party was formed in 1992 with the goal of using the principles of the meditation as a way of finding
ways to solve the problems of society – crime, injustice, economics and environmental issues.

A basic transcendental meditation courses are generally expensive and in spite of the high cost, an estimated five million people all over the world have taken these courses. There are also advanced courses available for extra costs. This process of meditation is relatively easy to learn in the seven-step procedure used in the four days of the course. Each day begins with a two hour lecture and the instruction starts with a ceremony performed by the instructor after which the students learn the technique and start practicing.

The principle behind the technique of transcendental meditation is that the source of all thoughts is the deepest level of the subconscious and is far beyond what the normal senses can experience. In this meditation, the practitioner takes one thought or sound and focuses on this so that it can be experienced in the deepest possible way.

The Maharishi compared it to a bubble of water that starts deep in the water and is only visible when it reaches the surface. He said that our thoughts are the same way – they start in the subconscious and rise to the conscious level of the mind.

In January, 2008, the Maharishi retired as the chairman of the transcendental meditation organization. He passed away the following month in Vlodrop, Netherlands, where he had lived for almost 20 years, coordinating his centers of teaching through an organization known as the Global Country of World Peace.

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Basic Information about Anxiety Attacks

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Anxiety attacks can range from mild to debilitating and demonstrate themselves in numerous symptoms. For the most part, an anxiety or panic attack brings on an intense feeling of anxiety of worry that causes feelings of fear, physical illness, and discomfort. In some cases there is an event that triggers such an attack, but it is also possible that the trigger is unknown. The episodes can be random and come on instantly.


During the attack the body produces extra hormones to prepare the body for its "fight or flight" action, which is what causes the symptoms to become more profound. A person who suffers from anxiety attacks will tell you that he/she feels like they are having a heart attack or cannot breathe, thus giving them the feeling that they are going to die. It may cause them to try to flee from the area in order to try to escape the feelings of anxiety or panic.


The most common symptoms of such an attack include increased blood pressure and heart rate, which often causes flushing of the skin, chest tightness or pain, profuse sweating, a feeling that you are sick to your stomach or that you may throw up, and a feeling of lightheadedness. In the majority of sufferers, the feeling of chest tightness precipitates an attack, which leads them to think they need to call emergency services.


There are different triggers and causes of anxiety attacks. Heredity plays a part in this and studies have found that panic attacks tend to run in families. At the same time, people with no family history also develop such attacks, so the cause cannot be based on heredity alone. Many panic attacks have been attributed to deficiencies in the diet, such as a deficiency in Vitamin B.


Phobias result from anxiety attacks when a person is exposed to a real threat over a long period of time. The use of caffeine can lead to such attacks, especially during the withdrawal process. Doctors have also found that thyroid problems and anemia lead to feelings of anxiety that can develop into full blown attacks the longer the condition goes undiagnosed and untreated.


There are many people who perceive a threat in their everyday life and can actually talk themselves into an anxiety attack when they worry excessively about what might happen if an event occurs. Traumatic experiences in one’s life can also be a trigger for such an attack.


Although those who suffer from anxiety attacks feel as if they are going to die, these feelings are the body’s ways of preventing this from happening. When a trigger occurs, the body starts producing extra adrenaline to prepare it for strenuous physical activity, such as running, which may be needed to ward off the threat. This, in turn, increases the heart rate and breathing rate and increases the amount of perspiration. When no physical activity occurs or is needed, then these increases in the body cause hyperventilation as the levels of carbon dioxide increase in the heart and lungs. This increase in carbon dioxide is the cause of the feelings of dizziness, nausea, and sensations of numbness in the limbs. Breathing into a paper bag can help alleviate anxiety attacks, although many experts say it can be dangerous. Taking deep breaths from the abdomen helps to slow down the heart rate and bring the blood pressure back to acceptable levels, thus reducing the intensity of the attack.

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About Ellen: My name is Ellen DuBois, Author of I Never Held You: A book about miscarriage, healing, and recovery,Host of MiscarriageHelp.com, and contributing author to several books Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News Please visit my website, Anxiety Attacks.

Anxiety Attacks- Hope. Help. Healing.

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My name is Ellen DuBois, Author of I Never Held You: A book about miscarriage, healing, and recovery, Host of MiscarriageHelp.com, and contributing author to several books Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News.

It's my greatest hope that you find something within this blog that speaks to you and your anxiety condition. I know how frightening, isolating and scary anxiety and panic attacks can be. I know how it feels to look at the world around you and think you are alone in your plight. I also know what it's like to be in a grocery store, movie theater, your car, wherever, and have an attack come on out of the blue- completely blindsiding you.

I have lived with anxiety for about twenty years now. My attacks began quite young and over the years, I've learned what's worked and what hasn't in helping me treat my anxiety. I've seen my doctor about my anxiety attacks, participated in talk therapy for a while, but most of all, I read everything I could find on anxiety. Why does it happen? I needed to know because I felt like I was going crazy. What happens to your body when you experience one of these terrible panic attacks? Again, I researched until I knew what was going on. The more I learned, the more in control of myself I became. The more I dove into anxiety and all it's triggers, the more I began to see why I was having them and what I could do to rid myself of them, or at least lessen them substantially.

Most of the work on your journey towards healing and recovery is up to you. Your mind is so, so powerful and as you progress down your path towards yourself again, you will discover this to be true. Our thoughts can be our greatest friend or our worst enemy. I have literally 'thought' my way into many anxiety attacks and as soon as I became aware of this, I immediately began to 'think about my thinking'.

Please hang in there. Have faith. There are so many different ways to treat anxiety- from seeing your doctor to meditations, relaxation techniques, and changing the way you think. You may need help getting going, but once you do, you will regain something more precious than gold- yourself.

Blessings to you

Ellen

About Ellen: My name is Ellen DuBois, Author of I Never Held You: A book about miscarriage, healing, and recovery,Host of MiscarriageHelp.com, and contributing author to several books Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News Please visit my website, Anxiety Attacks.