{"id":279,"date":"2015-11-30T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/?p=279"},"modified":"2015-11-30T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:51:41","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC01666v3_700w\"<\/a>“Everything about your life is predictable–driven completely by your habits of thought, emotion, and behavior. In fact, you really have only one choice today: Whether or not you will meditate.”<\/p>\n

Or, meditate in the presence of someone trained to help you relax mind and body, to interact with your subconscious mind and assist you in changing habits. The hypnotherapist as an advocate for you, and as a means to learn how a deep meditative state feels.<\/p>\n

Meditation is something that appears throughout this website. Simply because it is so important in integrating the whole of each person.<\/p>\n

Meditation is taught throughout the world and is a tradition in most spiritual and religious traditions (a google search brought up 130,000,000 results. I have a page on this website that shares two meditation techniques. Link><\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,\u201d says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. \u201cThis study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/01\/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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