Meditation Practice
Are you new to meditation or seeking to enhance your meditation practice? This simple yet deeply enriching method is practiced globally by people of all walks of life. Meditation can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention. There are several forms of meditation that studies show promote tremendous benefits to the body/mind. In 2005, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar published several findings and quantified meditation is a practice that can literally change the structure of your brain, thickening key areas of the cortex that help you control your attention and emotions.
Several forms of meditation:
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Loving-Kindness Meditation
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Body scan or progressive relaxation
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Mindfulness Meditation
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Breath Awareness Meditation
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Kundalini Yoga
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Zen Meditation
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Transcendental Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is widely used in the US by individuals desiring to enhance their personal growth as well as in corporations as an employee benefit to increase productivity and retention; reduce absenteeism and cost to health claims. Be Well offers an online meditation program to teach you how to meditate, provide you tools to further enhance your meditation practice. Fill out an online request form and a representative will get back to you.
Several benefits of meditation:
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Reduced stress and anxiety
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Multiply your focus and productivity
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Accelerates healing
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Reduced depression
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Deeper connection to life
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Strengthens your resiliency to triggers and stressors
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Boots self-confidence, self-acceptance
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Improves quality of life
