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Meditation Can Hack Your Brain’s Default Mode

Waking Times Video – More studies continue to surface proving that a regular meditation practice will reduce stress, improve physical and mental health, and even help with the most debilitating mental disorders. Dan Harris explains the neuroscience behind meditation and makes some strong predictions about the role that meditation will play in society over the next few decades. Whichever method you choose to practice, just remember that it takes a daily commitment to perfect and see true benefits of meditation, although it isn’t magic and it’s unlikely you’ll find yourself floating into the cosmic ooze while meditating. The benefits will be subtle at first, but over time more and more noticeable. ~~ Help Waking Times to raise the vibration by sharing this article with the buttons […] Read More

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The NEO Neurophone: A Meditation Tool for the 21st Century

If you had the opportunity to accelerate your meditative mind to that of a monk’s within weeks, would you take it? Patrick Flanagan, author of the best selling Pyramid Power that sold over a million copies, developed a technology in 1958 that has the ability to facilitate this type of quantum leap of the mind for its user. The Neurophone is not a phone…it is a handheld device that emits a subtle ultrasonic frequency to create left/right brain synchronization through two transducers that are applied to the user’s forehead. Sound straight out of a Science Fiction novel? That’s because it is… In 1911, Hugo Gernsback, often referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”, wrote a book titled Ralph 124C 4+ in which he depicted […] Read More

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Maintain Healthy Teeth and Gums with This Simple Ayurvedic Technique

Waking Times Video – What is an easy way to support the health of your mouth and teeth? An Ayurvedic technique of swishing oil in the mouth – also called oil pulling – claims to delivery many health benefits to the teeth, gums, and even throat and sinuses. Cold-pressed organic coconut oil is one of the best oils to use for oil pulling, due to its high lauric content and antimicrobial properties. Here are two respected medical professionals, Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. John Douillard, discussing this ancient Indian technique, how to do it, and why it is so beneficial. ~~ Help Waking Times to raise the vibration by sharing this article with friends and family… The post Maintain Healthy Teeth and Gums with This Simple […] Read More

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Meditation Postures

Meditation is an age-old practice that helps give you clear focus, sense of purpose and deep inner peace. With daily practice, meditations can have a profound impact on your life. One often realizes over time a special sense of peace and calm you feel during meditation and which you carry over into your everyday life at home, at work or while in traffic. With greater levels of inner peace and calm, meditation keeps you more grounded and centered throughout the day. So how do you get started? Choose a quiet spot and try out these meditation postures. Kneeling Meditation This technique of meditation was popular ancient Egypt and is still practiced in Japan where it is called seiza. To meditate on a kneeling position you […] Read More

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Meditation for Students

Meditation makes you an excellent student.  Today, most students are faced with the alarming rise of classroom stress arising from various causative factors such as demanding academic achievement standards, social anxiety & depression and school violence. Schools and students can take advantage of the immense benefit of meditation to help the students get better grades and be better students. Here is how meditation can benefit students in high school and colleges: Improved Concentration Frequent meditation exercises can help students concentrate better and have more mental focus. Young adolescents and college-going students may easily get bored and may have difficulty concentrating on certain classroom tasks and homework. But with increased relaxation and regular ease of mental pressure that comes with mediation, students can develop greater alertness […] Read More

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Benefits of Meditation for the Elderly

Meditation is an age-old practice that has been used to quiet the mind and attain a higher spiritual experience. In the recent past, new findings show that meditation is beneficial to the elderly in a number of great ways. More and more doctors now believe that meditation is one of the best tools for mental, emotional and physical health of the elderly. Here, we look at the top five Benefits of Meditation for the Elderly: Improves Memory Meditation activates the hippocampus and the frontal lobe areas of the brain, which serve the role of maintaining both long term and short term memory. Continuous meditative exercise means a better long and short term memory recall that includes retrieving long lost memories. Meditation also affords the elderly […] Read More

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4 Tips for Your First Yoga Class

We are all very nervous at our first yoga class, not knowing what to expect. When it all kicks off, it can be confusing: a strange language (Sanskrit), people who seem to know what they’re doing, suddenly we’re experiencing physical and emotional sensations which are kinda foreign to us, it’s all a bit more challenging than we expected, and there’s a lot to take in! We’ve all been there, so here are some tips to help you enjoy your first yoga class. 4 Yoga tips for beginners Here are a few tips to help with your first class: 1. Arrive Early Check out the space, make yourself familiar with the area you will be practicing in. Put your mat where you feel comfortable. Some people […] Read More

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Why meditation can help you

It doesn’t make sense when you are told to retreat relax and meditate when in a financial crisis. It’s rather reasonable that you don’t settle down until you come out of that huge financial burden that is tolling down on you. Meditation? Ooh please no! It has been said that people who don’t meditate are often more ignorant and are susceptible to making careless rushed choices that plunges them in a deeper trouble than the one they are in. This is why it’s important to free your mind and relax when in a financial crisis. It will help a million miles and you will be amazed at how quickly you will be able to harness your mental strength again and come up with strategic points […] Read More

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Meditation for the Family

Why is Meditation for the family important? Perhaps families should take more keen attention on meditation and how it can Foster positive relationships in the family. Meditation today is something that is rarely exercised because of the rapid change in lifestyles that leaves no room for retreating and relaxing and hence meditation. There is need to pause and recollect ourselves in the midst of a busy lifestyle that has the toll of budgets, deadlines, expectations duties, deadlines, etc . Importance of meditation for the family Meditation for the family today will help in fostering the mental and physical health of the children and the parents together as a unit. You have probably heard of many instances of family complaining of back pains after work, after […] Read More

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Importance of Meditation in Sports

Sports are about action. If its athletics, we just want to see the athlete in the track and hear the fired shot from the gun and see the race begin. If it’s on a football field we just want to hear the referee blow his whistle to signify the beginning of a football match. Most of us are interested with the action that sports erupts and are oblivious of the preparation and the mental state that needs to be harnessed in the backstage . Meditation in sports is equally important as the sport itself. It’s not only important to win a game, but it’s equally important that you harness the required mental capacity to win the game. Don’t make a mistake of thinking that as […] Read More