There has been an increase in the popularity of meditation over the past fifty years; perhaps a reflection of the increasingly busy hectic life in the Western world as the population abandons the country in favor of the city life. Meditation techniques calm and relax the stressed-out mental state that accompanies the urban rat race. This de-stressing effect of meditation has been observed in hundreds of medical scientific studies, and meditation is respected as an aid to medical treatment, even by the AMA. There is a good overview of this topic on a WebMD website: http://www.webmd.com/depression/tc/meditation-topic-overview
The UCLA School of Medicine has made information and meditations podcasts available, for FREE, on at its website: http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22 . One remarkable selection, and especially relevant to Positive Energy, is their “Loving Kindness Meditation.” Their first offering “Complete Meditation Instructions” is an excellent example of a non-specific, calming meditation, and instructive. Another, free meditation offering site is: http://www.fragrantheart.com/cms/free-audio-meditations/relaxation/creating-your-peaceful-sanctuary . Next we will look at some high tech brain stimulation techniques that purport to mimic meditation practices.
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