A recently written article in the Boston Globe indicated that more than 60 percent of companies offer wellness programs, up from 53 percent in 2001, and one-third of workplaces offer acupuncture or coverage for this treatment, up from 18 percent five years ago. Workplace Meditation statistics are still not available, but we can only imagine that it is becoming more accepted as part of these other alternative wellness and therapy programs.
Meditation is a directed concentration and involves focusing your awareness on a direct object: your breath, a phrase or word (ie. mantra), or an image in your own eye. Some of the benefits of meditation include:
1. Restructuring of the mind in order to detach the self from thoughts that cause emotional swings.
2. Increase Attention Span and reorganize thought processes
3. Greater mindfulness
4. Lower blood pressure
5. Decreased heart and respiratory rates
6. Increased blood flow
7. Enhancement of immune function
8. Relief of chronic pain due to arthritis and other disorders
Meditation in your area can be found by looking online or by asking your local yoga instructor or alternative medicine educator.
i am practising an esoteric indian meditation carried down the ages through parampara.in this system you will be initiated by touch at the spot between the eyebrows.you will be taken to a world of immense experiences.i was intitiated into this by father swami prabhakara sidda yogi.i am an general surgeion by profession.apart from the spiritual angle this meditation helped free of the tension associated with our profession.it helped in greater clarity and intuition in my diagnosis and surgical stategies
Posted by: dev | 12 April 2006 at 08:15 AM