Article tagged with Meditation
Tips for Keeping Healthy this Holiday Season
The act of sharing a celebratory meal with friends and family can be a health experience in itself. Holiday meals can be made to be healthy. Just the fact that people tend to cook fresh food is a step in the right direction!
Disease Cause #4: Emotional Stress
Day-to-day living causes a certain amount of emotional stress that is not detrimental from a health point of view. Stress can be a motivational factor that gets us going on to the next thing in life. Emotional stress only becomes a problem when it begins to rob the healing potential of the body. For many individuals this is every day. Well recognized as the root of anxiety and depression, emotional stress can aggravate virtually all disease processes. When patients ask if emotional stress could be playing a role in their particular problem, my answer is always a definitive “yes.” Understanding and managing stress is an important adjunct in the treatment of all diseases.
Meditation for Healing and Optimal Wellness
Meditation has the potential of being one of the most powerful forms of healing. Emotional stress is a common part of chronic disease and cancer. Regaining a sense of control is profoundly important in healing. Meditation, even in a basic form, is a very powerful tool for regaining a sense of control and decreasing the stress response associated with disease.
Taming the Tiger
Bill Rawls, M.D. Maribeth Loynes M.D.
The internal responses that served our ancestors so well when escaping a saber-toothed tiger are contributing to our ill health today. Acute stress shifts the resources of the body away from everyday maintenance functions toward confronting a threat. In our world, the “tiger” never goes away; stress is chronic.
