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Meditation
Meditation is a technique that focusses on the interactions between the brain, mind, body, and behaviour, and the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioural factors can affect health.
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Reviewed March 2011
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| Title: | Meditation |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Meditation involves deliberately holding one's attention on a subject, object or process. It may also involve clearing the mind. Results can include feeling more 'alive', enhanced feelings of calm and heightened awareness. Meditation offers many health benefits, such as reducing stress, and supporting healing and recovery from accidents. |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Mindfulness |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Mindfulness is a technique in which a person becomes intentionally aware of their thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgementally. It is attracting increasing interest among Western psychiatrists as a non-pharmacological means of dealing with anxiety and depression. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Cancer pain management |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Cancer causes pain. Medication (drugs) for pain relief includes paracetamol, non-opioid (aspirin-like medications and others) and opioid drugs (codeine and morphine). Therapies such as meditation, massage, acupuncture and yoga may help. Managing pain can improve sleep, energy levels and quality of life. Radiation, surgery, hormone therapy and chemotherapy may also relieve pain. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Stress - learning to relax |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | If you are feeling stressed, then you may be having trouble with sleeping and concentrating, and with being positive and hopeful. Your body may be trying to get you to recognise that it is feeling stressed by giving you headaches, making you feel sick, giving you indigestion, a fluttery feeling in the tummy, or any one of a number of other signs that are trying to show you that you need to relax. Here are some ideas to help you deal with stress. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Yoga - health benefits |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | The physical foundation of yoga is a series of structured poses synchronised with the breath. The benefits of regular practice include increased fitness and lower levels of stress and anxiety. A full yoga session should exercise every part of the body and should include pranayama (breath control practices), relaxation and meditation. |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Meditation therapies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that affects a significant number of children and adults in a variety of ways. It is characterized by chronic levels of inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. Meditation therapy could ... |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
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