Meditation and Pain Relief November 13, 2009
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We’ve had quite a few people contact us lately asking if our Meditation Machines can help with pain relief.
In the East, meditation has been used for pain relief since ancient times, but it’s only comparatively recently that it’s become recognized in the West as a natural and effective way for managing and reducing physical discomfort.
In fact, a study carried out at the Universitie de Montreal by Professor Pierre Rainville and Joshua Grant found that meditators had much lower pain sensitivity compared to people who didn’t meditate.
“While previous studies have found that the emotional aspects of pain are influenced by meditation,” explains Grant, “we found that the sensation itself, as well as the emotional response, is different in meditators.”
Past research had shown that teaching chronic pain patients to meditate is beneficial, but very few studies have looked at pain processing in healthy, highly trained meditators.
“If meditation can change the way someone feels pain, thereby reducing the amount of pain medication required for an ailment, that would be clearly beneficial,” says Grant.
Of course, using meditation rather than drugs to relieve pain has many advantages as many pain relieving drugs have harmful side effects. And meditation can also reduce the stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia that often accompanies painful conditions.
We have an interesting Case Study about someone who used one of our Meditation Machines to help with the pain and discomfort associated with multiple sclerosis. You can read it at http://www.meditationsuk.com/resources/helen_hills.htm
Using a Meditation Machine like the MindSpa can not only help you to manage your pain, but will also lead to a better overall sense of physical and mental well-being.
— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.
You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
National Stress Awareness Day November 5, 2009
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Yesterday was National Stress Awareness Day. The fact that such a day exists, and that it’s in its 11th year, says a lot about society – and the workplace – today. In fact, stress has become so prevalent that NICE – the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence – has launched new guidance for employers about how to improve mental well-being in the workplace.
The organizers of National Stress Awareness Day is the International Stress Management Association (ISMA).
Ann McCracken, chair of ISMA, says: “Stress, anxiety and depression accounts for over 13.5 million workdays each year, making it the single biggest cause of sickness in the UK. The aim of the campaign is to increase public awareness about the effects of stress, the treatments available and, most importantly, to help individuals suffering from stress to seek help.”
One of the best, natural antidotes to stress is meditation. And meditation is also one of the most effective forms of anxiety treatment. It can be the key to alleviating this problem as it will cultivate an overall calmness that eases anxious feelings and offers a sense of control, using the natural power of your mind.
Meditating whenever you feel levels of anxiety will help naturally to quieten your mind and relax your body. WIth regular meditation, your general state of mind will improve and you’ll find that you’ll feel less anxious about issues that previously caused you stress. The calmness and tranquillity that meditation brings will give you greater emotional stability and the ability to handle stressful situations in a controlled way.
And so If meditation is so good for you, why doesn’t everyone do it ?
The problem is that, using traditional techniques, learning meditation is very difficult.
In fact, using traditional methods, it can take many months – and probably years – of disciplined practice before you gain control of your mind and attain meditative states.
Fortunately, however, there are modern techniques, like the MindSpa, that enable you to take a fast-track to meditation. Isn’t it time that you benefited from the better sense of physical and mental well-being that deep relaxation and meditation can bring you ?
— Ivor Murray is the MD of MeditationsUK, an innovative company that sells technology-led aids to help you relax and de-stress. Their main products are Meditation Machines – small, portable machines that use natural light and sound to gently guide you into calm, relaxing states of mind and body, easily and automatically.
You can find out more about them at www.MeditationsUK.com or www.MindSpa-UK.com, or telephone 020 8371 0436
