I used to be very skeptical of meditation as a relaxation method until I tried it. There’s a reason its been practiced for over 3,000 years. Meditation was originally based in spirituality. The goal of meditation is to learn how to avoid automatic self-defeating thoughts and replace them with freeing thoughts. [...]

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Every newspaper, magazine and TV show is punctuated with ads describing some form of stress relief. Often it is a story about an exercise program, meditation technique or some form of medicine. Most of us understand that stress relief is an internal process that we must control and drive ourselves. As [...]

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How to reduce stress is a huge problem especially for people in western societies. There are three types of stresses: Physical, Psychological and Environmental or Social.
The first group of stressors affect physically, for example: hunger, hot and cold, illness, pain and injury, viruses, lack of sleep. This psychologically affects your mind. Examples are: loneliness, fear, [...]

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