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How The Sedona Method Greatly Enhances the
Benefits of Meditation
By Sedona
Training Associates staff and Hale Dwoskin
Meditation, once viewed by many as quite exotic and “out there,” has
reached the mainstream world with bells on.
You
can now find meditation classes at your health club, your workplace and
perhaps even at your local park district.
This ancient modality is catching on because, more and more, people are
looking for an outlet from their stressful lives.
“Meditation is an attempt to quiet and focus your mind in order to
attain inner peace,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of training of
Sedona Training Associates.
And meditation has proven benefits that range from increased well-being
to pain relief. For instance:
* People who meditated for eight weeks produced more
antibodies to a flu vaccine, which indicates it changed immune function
in a positive way.
* Meditation may help you maintain your ability to remember and focus
on details as you age, according to research by Sara Lazar of Harvard
Medical School.
* Meditation lowers anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, causes a
significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and results in an
increase in immunoreactivity.
* Meditation and similar mind-training disciplines can cause short-term
and long-term changes in the inner workings of your brain.
* A recent study in PAIN found that people with chronic back pain who
meditated for eight weeks had a decreased amount of pain and an
improvement in physical function.
However, while meditation can indeed be beneficial, it has one
drawback, and a major one at that: it can take years, decades even, to
learn how to do it correctly.
And
from there you must practice it for a significant amount of time daily
to receive the benefits.
“While learning how to meditate is a very noble and worthwhile
endeavor,” Dwoskin says, “for most people this is easier said than
done.”
How to Get the Benefits of
Meditation Right Now
The point of meditation is to quiet your mind by freeing it of anxiety
and stress, allowing you to keep a more positive, peaceful focus.
This
is very similar to the impact The Sedona Method can have on your life.
However,
The Method, which works by teaching you how to tap into your inner
ability to release negative and upsetting emotions, can be learned in a
matter of days, and works instantly, on the spot.
You can also use The Sedona Method along with your meditation practice
for even greater benefits.
“The Sedona Method enhances and supports meditation in many ways,”
Dwoskin says. “First off, as you release you naturally become more
quiet with your mind, which translates to an immediate lessening of
thinking that lasts all day long.”
“Also, as you release before, during and after meditation your
meditations get deeper and more profound,” Dwoskin continues.
“This
occurs because every time you release you are eliminating the
tendencies that cause the distress that meditation helps you to move
away from.”
So if you love to do meditation, and you have the time to devote to it,
you can use The Sedona Method to get an even deeper experience.
For
those of you who don’t have the time, or the patience, to learn the
more involved process of meditating, you’ll find that The Sedona Method
is a worthy alternative.
“You will find that not only do your meditations get deeper with The
Sedona Method,” Dwoskin says, “but that you will -- in short order --
discover that a few minutes of releasing will become equivalent in
feeling to hours of meditation.”
Source:
PAIN Volume 134, Issue 3, February 2008, Pages 310-319
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From
the Sedona Training site.
Hale Dwoskin is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, The
Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and
Emotional Well-being.
Hale
is one of the 24 Teachers from the movie The Secret and a
founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
He is
the
CEO and Director of Training of Sedona
Training Associates  .
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