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Meditation for Stress and Panic Attack Relief

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 10:12 pm

If you’ve been dealing with Panic Attacks for any period of time, you will know that you are willing to try just about anything to get rid of them. I have found that using meditation can help relieve some of the panic attack symptoms and give you more inner peace.
Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the reflexive, thinking mind and into a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. Meditation often involves turning attention to a single point of reference. This in turn will give us a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind.

How Does Meditation Work?
Meditation works differently for different people, but, for the most part, meditation puts your mind at rest. Your mind most of the day is working very hard. It’s under a lot of stress with our jobs, taking care of our families, driving, daily errands, along with also processing all the environmental things that we encounter, such as sights, smells and sounds. When we sleep, our mind does rest, but, if you are under a lot of stress, even sleep will not allow your mind to totally shut down, this is when you would need meditation to give your mind a break.

Meditation will deal with the most difficult area that you are going through right away. It is not looking for a solution, but, for a way to accept what you are dealing with. While this is happening, things are also happening to your body. Your nervous system activity will decrease, your heart rate will slow down, blood pressure will lower, your metabolic rate will decrease and your oxygen intake can fall as much as 20% below normal.
 
What Are the Benefits of Meditation?
The most common benefits are:

Increase in patience
Enjoyment in life and feelings of serenity
Dealing with repressed memories
Resolves some phobias and fears, like Panic Attacks
Builds self confidence
Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
Relaxes our nervous system
Helps control own thoughts
Develop will power
Increased emotional stability
Decreased tendency to worry

Want to learn more about Panic Attacks from someone who has actually experienced them: Go to http://www.helpwithpanicattack.com

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Transcendental Meditation: Where Does the Money Go?

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 10:12 pm

When we hire an event planner and a disc jockey for our daughters sweet sixteen birthday party we don’t usually care about where our hard earned cash ends up. However, when we’re contemplating a course in meditation, we’ll somehow it seems a little different. It’s those purchases that are a more abstract that we sometimes question. You know, like health insurance and taxes. So where does the money go after we fork over the cost of a course in the Transcendental Meditation® technique? After all, inquiring minds want to know, right?

Bang For the Buck–First, it’s good to know that the course fee (currently $1500 for adults and $750 for students) includes approximately 10 hours of personal instruction and a lifetime of follow up classes, anywhere in the U.S. (including Hawaii). I mean, a college course is expensive too, but there’s no personal instruction and a lifetime opportunity to audit that course at dozens of locations around the country. So Transcendental Meditation offers a package deal that’s something pretty special.

NonProfit–The organization that teaches the Transcendental Meditation technique is called Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation (MVED). It is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational entity. Its mission is to provide the technique of Transcendental Meditation to millions of people so that they may reap the scientifically validated benefits of health, happiness, prosperity and inner peace.

Scholarships–The organization offers financial aid just like other educational institutions. They facilitate, long term, low interest, student loans as well as full and partial scholarships for qualifying students, families etc. As much as 35% of all MVED revenues are used to provide scholarships for Transcendental Meditation courses, for those that could not otherwise afford it. The organization also works closely with a number of charitable foundations that provide full and partial scholarships to students and at-risk youth. Over the past two years more than 50,000 students in schools across the United States, Latin America and Africa have learned the Transcendental Meditation technique through this program.

Salaries–For more than a decade I was an employee of MVED Corporation and worked as a financial manager and regional director. As such, I can verify that the salaries that the organization paid were modest and below the national average for comparable work. As an administrator in a leadership role I received almost the same salary as many entry level employees. I had frequent interactions with senior members of the organization many of whom, worked full time, on a volunteer basis and received no compensation whatsoever.

Maharishi—The founder of the technique, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, worked tirelessly, twelve to fifteen hours per day for more than 50 years. His only focus, day and night, was to create an organization that could provide the benefits of his meditation technique to millions of people around the world. When he first began teaching in the 1950’s he relied only on donations. However, as the organization grew and buildings were needed to establish Transcendental Meditation centers and a permanent organizational structure, standardized course fees came into existence. As for Maharishi himself, he was a monk with no possessions. He never owned a car, a house, a plane or a building at anytime in his life. He lived only for the good of all people and never thought of himself.

So when you pay your course fee for Transcendental Meditation you can rest assured that your hard earned money is going to good use. You are receiving a technique and follow up classes that will provide life long benefits and you will sleep well at night knowing that through your course fee others will also have the opportunity to benefit.

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