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Holidays stressing you out? Spa treatments and therapeutic massages are great ways to relax, but with all the gifts you’re buying for those on your list, you might feel so guilty about spending the money on yourself that you skip the treatments altogether. [...]

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Quiet the mind. Slow down your breath. Awaken your chakras. It’s time to meditate! I’ll be the first one to admit that I used to be like Ms. Paltrow, in that I didn’t have the slightest idea how to meditate. I would dim the lights, make sure the apartment was quiet, and try to focus on my breath. [...]

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Meditation helps with many things: it can help you destress, become more self-aware, and even reduce your sensation of pain. And a new study has found yet another benefit: meditation helps you tune out distractions even when you aren’t in the midst of a mediation itself.
The study, published in the Brain Research Bulletin, looked at 12 adults, some of whom took an eight-week class training in stressed-reducing meditation (the rest were the control group and did not take the meditation class) and found that alpha wave changes in the brains of those who meditated were more pronounced than those who didn’t. [...]

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Have you experienced the positive benefits of meditation? A new study that looked at 18 healthy young adults who had never meditated before found that with just 20-minute instructional sessions in mindfulness meditation, there was a significant reduction in pain when subjects were exposed to painful stimuli. [...]

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Whenever I get asked if I’m a morning person, I drift off for a moment, imagining my hands wrapped around a mug, sipping hot tea as I sit cross-legged in a cozy chair, watching the sunrise over the ocean. Then reality slaps me in the face, and I hesitate to say I’m a morning person. [...]

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Stressed out? Grab a pen or pencil and some paper, and do this relaxation exercise from the OnSugar blog goddessbody.
I call this exercise the Phone Cord (before the cell phone and cordless phone). It promotes calmness and relaxation and relieves inner tension. It also helps improve balance and coordination. [...]

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While important, being healthy is more than just exercise and a healthy diet. But it’s easy to forget that (well, it is for me, at least). And being too occupied with counting calories, or making it to a 6 p.m. yoga class, can make other areas of our lives suffer. [...]

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The value of Eastern medicine must have left a big impression on Jessica Simpson while filming The Price of Beauty earlier this year. On Sunday, the actress sent out several tweets about the work she was doing with healer Master Wang, founder of the Medicine Buddha Temple in San Francisco. [...]

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This year Gwyneth Paltrow is going to clear her mind and give meditation a try. Before you write this off as another one of Gwyneth’s questionable health practices or categorize meditation as something hippies, Buddhists, and the new agey do in incense filled rooms, hear me out. [...]

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The yoga studio where I teach just started offering Vajra yoga classes, so I decided to try something new and took a class last week. The only thing I knew before heading into the studio was that this was a more meditative kind of yoga. Since the class began at noon, it was small: only four other students. [...]

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