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[ #GentleNudge ] 4Mar2015 ~ 37 Science Based Reasons to Meditate Today [ Infographic, Video ]
Here’s Your Weekly Wednesday #GentleNudge To Get You Over The Hump…
and into the weekend!
[ Meditation… Part 1 of 3 ]
Have you ever wondered this about meditation?
I’ve been reading a lot about it and
feel the benefits from it but what exactly does meditation do for the body?
I know it activates certain parts of the brain but I’m not clear on what exactly that means.
One of my clients asked me this in my inbox and I thought it would be a great series to dive into with you.
Sure, I’ve written about my personal experiences with meditation, like the time I I did a 10-day yoga challenge (starting at day 95). But you probably were wondering, “what does meditation do for the body?”
[ Meditation Does A Body Good! ]
According to SoundsTrue.Com, meditation on the body can help you:
Channel revitalizing energy throughout your body and
Uncover your body’s untapped powers of perception, intuition, and wisdom.
We live in an overly stimulated world, so when you can channel energy to make yourself feel good, your body can literally carry you longer and work more optimally!
Meditation can structurally change your brain… “thickening some areas, and making others less dense”…
Huffington Post Healthy Living Benefits of Meditation
Similarly, we are mammals, and meditation allows you to attune to the silent messages your body tells you to signal happiness, balance, and yes, even illness. Body Scanning Meditation awakens you to what your body needs and wants to tell you:
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[ Meditation: Good for Any Body! ]
Meditation is great for your heart and can “significantly help high blood pressure over the long-term”.
Plus, it is an excellent immune booster (illnesses and infectious bye-bye!), and meditation can help women reduce PMS, infertility and breastfeeding problems:
Science has shown that mindfulness meditation can affect gene expression, which means that not only your body changes, but your potential for illness such as diabetes, heart-attack and dementia are lessened, too!
Curious to learn more? Just check what Meditation can do for the Body, Mind and Spirit (courtesy of The Huffington Post):
She even goes over some Myths about Meditation and helps you breakthrough the “I can’t meditate” mentality:
Click to Read More from Emma Seppala
[ Still Need More Motivation To Meditate? ]
Alright, so you’ve come to a place where you’re saying, “Geez, I guess meditation couldn’t hurt!” Great! Let’s get started!
Try out the Headspace App program ( Free for the first 10 days ):
Or maybe you’re still on the fence?
Here are 10 Science-Based Reasons to Start Meditating Today!
Click to view Emma Seppala’s website!
The Takeaway
Meditation can change your life in so many ways. And you don’t need to sit for hours, wearing a white robe.
You can be yourself!
…A woman
…An elder
Meditation Reduces Loneliness, Boosts Immune System In Seniors (Huffington Post)
…And You can even be a punk rocker, tatooed meditation advocate:
As a youth, Levine was incarcerated several times. His first book, Dharma Punx, details teenage years filled with drugs, violence, and multiple suicide attempts—choices fuelled by disillusionment with American mainstream culture. His substance abuse started early in life—at age six he began smoking marijuana—and finally ended in a padded detoxification cell in juvenile prison 11 years later. It was in this cell where he hit “an emotional rock bottom” and began his vipassana practice “out of a place of extreme drug addiction and violence” While incarcerated, he saw for the first time how the practice his father taught him gave him the tools to relieve the fear and uncertainty that pervaded his life.
One notable aspect of Buddhist Dharma is the path of our choices, the actions past and present and the intention for future action (Buddhist Law of Karma). Levine’s past—addiction, incarceration, violence, initial rejection of Buddhism and meditation—are all defining characteristics of his writings and teachings. “We all sort of have a different doorway to dharma or spiritual practice. Suffering is a doorway. For me it was the suffering of addiction, violence and crime which opened me at a young age, 17 years old. I was incarcerated, looking at the rest of my life in prison and thought, ‘Maybe I will try dad’s hippie meditation bullshit.’ Suffering opened me to the possibility of trying meditation.”
He currently leads Dharma and vipassana meditation retreats and workshops across the United States and teaches weekly meditation classes in Los Angeles. A member of the Prison Dharma Network, Levine works with juvenile and adult prison inmates, combining meditation techniques with psychotherapy. He “explores how they can have a deeper understanding of what has happened and what they need to do in order to be free, on many levels—free from prison, free from the trauma of the past.”
He has helped found several groups and projects including the Mind Body Awareness Project, a non-profit organization that serves incarcerated youths. Introducing them to the Buddha’s teachings. He lists the 14th Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Norman Fischer, and Sylvia Boorstein as his teachers.
Here’s Your Weekly Wednesday #GentleNudge To Get You Over The Hump…
and into the weekend!
[ Part 3 of 3 ]
Over the last few weeks, I have presented you with some steps and insight to help you continue to shine in your confidence. Here are the links, in case you’d like a refresher:
This is part 3 of 3 of my series on confidence, and I wanted to go out with one of my favorite types of posts, the Quote Post. I find (and some of you have told me), that these are the post you enjoy the most because they are “inspiring”…
SO, without further ado, here are 27 Confidence Boosting Quotes to Inspire Success in your Life and Business, featuring quotes from:
Beyonce, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, a confidence-inspiring kid, and more…
PS: Originally, I was going to post 18, but when the inspiration flows, I go with it! 🙂
[ #GentleNudge ] 28Jan2015 ~ The only quote you’ll need to relax (and succeed)!
Here’s Your Weekly Wednesday #GentleNudge To Get You Over The Hump…
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I recently took my final test as a student at the Institute For Integrative Nutrition, the Largest Nutrition School in the World. This means, that I am a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach!
Will Health Coaches be the future of healthcare? Doctors are trained to treat illnesses, but they do not help their patients change the behaviors that lead to them. Health Coach and IIN graduate Maria Marlowe explains why Health Coaches fill a unique role in the medical field that is becoming evermore crucial.
Before taking my final test to graduate, I had to really ground myself and get focused. In order to do so, I took a moment to remember two important quotes (or, mantras):
“I am at the right place, at the right time” “There is no need to worry or rush, the Universe always has perfect timing”
Allowing myself to settle into these undeniable truths, I relaxed… and aced the test 100%!
The Takeaway
In life you have choices… you can choose to be stressed, or choose to be blessed. Find a way to stay relaxed and trust the process. Know that you are exactly where you ought to be right now, and that the only time that matters, truly, is right now.
What are your thoughts? How do you relax when you are entering a major life changing event? Do you have a mantra! Feel free to comment below!
To your Success,
Tera Greene
The Life REmix Expert
…inspiring success in life and business!
If you’ve been in the marketing world for anytime you probably have heard about automated webinars right?
Well I can guarantee that you’ve not had this much of a detailed explanation of what and how to best set them up!
Are you ready to get the inside scoop on webinars? Click the image above!
In this free video series Casey Zeman, founder of EasyWebinar shares 6 secret elements that can boost your lead generation and sales when doing an automated webinar.
Chances are you may not have even known that these features and options were even available, so this is definitely an eye opening training!
…Plus by the end of this training you will see a 166% Return on Investment case study from a customer of EasyWebinar using Automated Webinars and these 6 things!
[ #GentleNudge ] 17Dec2014 ~ The Best Gentle Nudge List 2014
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Happy Holidays!
It’s been a great year and I’m so thankful you have joined me in the journey. Your health, happiness and success means a lot to me, so I’ve decided to give you the Best Gentle Nudge List of 2014.
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The teacher that I take Yoga Basics class with, which is in the style of Hatha Yoga, also teaches a Yin class ( aka: “more relaxed and zen” yoga). I was feeling a lil’ tight in the side of my back earlier today and I almost stayed home.
But, alas, the studio is only 2 minutes from my front door, and Yin is zen, so I went.
I’ll just start with the end by saying, “I needed that.”
[ The Experience ]
I took my partner along and we were both curious to note that we used the wall as support the entire class. It was a way of doing Yoga that neither of us had done before.
In using the wall as support (and gravity as our helper), we were able to go deeper into the poses we held, which meant we were able to target the fascia more intentionally. Through this, we were able to open up more meaningfully.
My two favorite poses of the evening were the frog pose:
Click image to learn about the Yin Frog Pose
And King Arthur pose, which apparently is a good pose for runners:
Click image to learn more yoga poses for runners
Mind you, I am not a runner. My partner is. But, nope, I am not a fan of running. Though, ironically before class yesterday, a gentleman asked me if I was. We ended our short chat with me saying, “I guess sometimes people see things in us that we don’t.”
Any rate, the King Arthur’s pose is intense. I actually kept my leg that wasn’t on the wall bent and lowered to the ground, using a yoga block to gently lift that leg a bit so as to still feel the stretch in my wall-supported leg.
Did you get all that? lol
[ The Takeaway ]
Now that I know I can use walls to do yoga, I really feel like there’s no excuse.
“I can do anything.”
[ Question For You ]
What can you do when you use your immediate resources?
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104 days ago, I challenged myself to meditate and chant for 40 consecutive days.
I did it!
Another 10 days of intentional mindfulness for my well-being through meditation. I am so happy and I feel like I am truly at a place of understanding how to flow with life more efficiently, simply because every day I have devoted time to become a better Observer.
[ My thoughts about Headspace ]
Headspace is quite easy-to-use and interactive. The use of videos to present value alongside the meditations are great tools to help you understand the practice of meditation:
I definitely enjoy the premise of using the Headspace App to Meditate; however, at the end of the day, I’m fine keeping my meditation a free service, personally. Plus, I do have a lovely guided meditation that I enjoy using when I need to get some teaching to recenter my practice.
I encourage you to do the 10-days of Headspace, though. Try it out and see for yourself!
[ The Takeaway ]
10-minutes a day goes a long way.
Before Headspace, I would do 30 minutes a day of meditation, even an hour a day sometimes, thinking those were the “right” units of time to see results. But, that often left me feeling stressed. As I wracked my brain trying to find the time to fit in my meditation, it would often feel like a chore, rather than a relaxing point in my day.
After Headspace, however, I see that there is value in taking 10-minutes a day.
The key is the intention, and taking the time to do it for yourself. 10-minutes is also more doable and accessible, and therefore makes it more fun. Plus, there is science behind 10-minutes a day being beneficial unit of time to see results
Click to learn more about the science behind meditation!
Though I believe I will continue my meditation sans-Headspace, at least I know that I will at least be continuing with my daily practice. ONWARD!
[ Question For You ]
How has being flexible allowed you to achieve your goals?
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Meditation is great for your heart and can “significantly help high blood pressure over the long-term”.
Tera Greene, The Life REmix Expert 
