Practicing yoga can lessen anxiety, heighten concentration and improve motivation in as little as eight weeks, according to research presented in New Orleans at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.
(Yoga Improves Concentration, Motivation - Benefits Beyond Strength And Flexibility, Medical News Today, June 13, 2007)
Wellness is first and foremost a choice to assume responsibility for the quality of your life. It begins with a conscious decision to shape a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is a mind set, a predisposition to adopt a series of key principles in varied life areas that lead to high levels of well-being and life satisfaction.
--Don Ardell, Ph.D., Living Well Center, University at Buffalo
http://www.livingwell.buffalo.edu/well.shtml
Premenstrual syndrome, infertility problems, and even breastfeeding can be improved when women meditate regularly. In one study, PMS symptoms subsided by 58% when women meditated. Another study found that hot flashes were less intense among meditating women.
(Meditation Balances the Body’s Systems, WEB MD, January 2008)
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A study measuring creative thinking showed those who meditate scored significantly higher on figural originality and flexibility as well as on verbal fluency.
(Journal of Creative Behavior, 13: 169-190, 1979 and Dissertations Abstracts International, 38: 3372-3373, 1978)
To date, thousands of research studies have been undertaken and have shown that with the practice of yoga a person can, indeed, learn to control such physiologic parameters as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory function, metabolic rate, skin resistance, brain waves, body temperature, and many other bodily functions. (National Center for Contemplative and Alternative Medicine)
Long-term meditators who had been practicing meditation for more than five years were physiologically twelve years younger than their chronological age, as measured by reduction of blood pressure, and better near-point version and auditory discrimination. Short-term meditators were physiologically five years younger than their chronological age.
(International Journal of Neuroscience, 16: 53-58, 1982)
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