Meditation has become a very popular means of bringing about inner peace and happiness. With a growing reputation across the world, many people now understand and recognize the multitude of benefits that meditation offers and are eager on learning and practicing it.
However one should understand that meditation is a strict discipline of the mind that requires a life long commitment. Learning the art of meditation is not easy and cannot be mastered overnight. It takes constant practice and discipline, but most importantly it takes the guidance of an expert teacher or guru to teach the ways and methods of practicing it.
The number of meditation schools has increased exponentially over the years to meet the growing demands of people looking to find inner peace and happiness. Meditation schools differ because of the different practices or teachings that they follow or a based on. Some follow the Buddhist way of meditation while others follow the Zen way of meditation and yet others that follow the numerous other disciplines available in meditation.
Given below are the names of few of these schools and an explanation of the technique they follow.
School of Meditation This meditation school teaches a technique that is simple and involves no attention to physical postures, chanting or complex mental procedures. Its simplicity makes it easy to follow for almost anyone.
The core of their technique is Mantra, a sound that you repeat silently to yourself; this facilitates a harmonious union of the body, mind and spirit. The method is practiced twice a day and can be done while sitting in a chair in a quiet place.
The School is run by the very people who are its members. It is a non-profit institution registered under the name of The Society for Spiritual Development. The school is based in London with franchises in Barn staple, Basingstoke, Boston, Bournemount, Chelmsford, Leeds, Salisbury, Sheffield, Stroud and Winchester. Their international centers are located in Holland, Amsterdam, Paris and Greece.
Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School The Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School is the name of a group of teachers, who run several independent schools in Scandinavia and Germany. The School is free from any commercial, political or religious interest. The Danish yogi Swami Janakananda founded the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in Copenhagen in 1970 as a non-profit organization. A very important element in the school is the deep-going yoga teacher education, which begins with the 3-Month Course at Håå Course Center in southern Sweden, and continues as a process, to give you a solid personal experience of yoga and meditation.
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment This meditation school is based on the teachings of Ramtha, an ancient warrior, conqueror who lived 35,000 years ago. Remnants of his life and teachings exist in various archaeological artifacts found in India and Egypt, as well as in ancient Hindu literature.
The four cornerstones of Ramtha's teachings are: The statement "You are God"; the directive to make known the unknown; the concept that consciousness and energy create the nature of reality; the challenge to conquer yourself. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment has students from all over the world and all walks of life. Age is no bar to learning this form of meditation. In fact some of its students range from the ages of six to those well into the twilight of their life.
These are just some of the meditation schools that a person interested in learning deep meditation can choose from. Most meditation practices are similar in their goals and benefits; the focus should be on choosing a style of meditation that suits you the best.
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The five senses can meditate to improve its capacity and make human more sensitive to environments. Human has five senses like nose, eyes, ear, tongue, and skin. All sense tools can meditate to improve their capability except tongue. But, actually, tongue can train with feel food and other smell into mouth slowly and patiently when we consume anything. This article will discuss how nose meditation conducts to improve our sense of smell. What benefit with this meditation? I will write nose and ear meditation only in this ezine website.
Nose meditation is extension mediation of dragon meditation (DM). This is can improve your smell capability although your nose will not like dog nose sense capability. The benefits from this nose meditation are: (1) improve your smell capability; (2) you will able to smell very long distance (3) Your nose will healthier.
Steps to conduct nose meditation are
[1] You must train DM or another meditation before you try this meditation. If you are beginner in meditation, then you will feel very hard to do this.
[2] Take sit position like you want. Any position can take for this meditation.
[3] Wear light cloth and place in good room without hard light and hard smell.
[4] Arrange your breath very loose like sleeping people. Feel your hand. Next, feel your meditation after much time.
[5] After your meditation in stable condition, feel your nose, feel your nose smell something in very long place.
[6] Do not think what you smell with your nose. Your feel will guide self of your nose. In this case, you do not know where you smell something because your feel guide you.
[7] Keep feel to your nose. You will smell something automatically.
[8] You are not know what you smell it. But, if you keep to smell it and keep concentration in mediation then you will know where location of smell.
[9] To prove it, visit location that you know from your meditation. Usually, you will get this smell and you will know what it is.
After you get good training in this meditation, of course you will have smell capability with highest sensitivity. You will become on guard people everyday because of this. Moreover, if you are train other your senses regularly.
If you are a police, detective, emergency team, fire brigade, etc then this capability will help you to find something in your tasks. For more information please read my e-book in my website. I hope this is helping you to improve your live quality. Thank you []
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Heart rate monitors come in all shapes and sizes. They are the perfect workout companion, since heart rate monitors will give you an idea of the intensity of exercise that you have been doing by monitoring the number of heartbeats per minute. The general rule of thumb is that the higher your heart rate, the faster and harder you workout. Thus, you will receive maximum results as you exercise with the use of a heart rate monitor. However, you need to be able to interpret and use the results given out by a heart rate monitor so that you would know about the benefits of having one. Some heart rate monitors measure, aside from the heart rate – the maximum and minimum heart zone or level, as well as the number of calories that you have burned during a particularly strenuous workout session.
Before learning what to look for when purchasing a heart rate monitor, it is good to have an idea of the benefits of using a heart rate monitor as you workout. First, it is easy to use and accurate. Using even the most basic of heart rate monitors will eliminate the need to interrupt your own training or exercise session. If you will monitor your heart rate by manually recording the number of heartbeats per minute through your pulse, it will be quite tedious and may also results into getting inaccurate results and losing your momentum.
Second, a heart rate monitor where you can set the highest and lowest heart rate will help you monitor your fitness. Cardiovascular or heart rate based exercises will increase your endurance, strengthen your lungs and provide additional benefits so it is important to keep track of your heart rate as you perform such activities. Third, you will have some sort of an alarm so that you can stop when you are overexerting yourself, or work harder when you see that you are below the minimum heart rate that you have set for yourself.
When purchasing a heart rate monitor, it is important to consider the price, the brand and the number of features. If you are not a serious health buff, you may just want to get the lower-end or middle priced heart rate monitor. For the more serious physical fitness enthusiasts, you can buy mid-level or high-end heart rate monitors. Advanced heart rate monitors are usually used by coaches and training athletes since more factors are being displayed here, and they usually have a host of other features available. If you would like to make the most out of your workout or physical fitness training, a heart rate monitor is the way to go so that even the most avid health and fitness buffs can take advantage of the benefits to be gained from exercising with a heart rate monitor.
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Thoracic spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spinal cord or spinal nerves are compressed by narrowing of the spinal canal or the openings between vertebrae. The thoracic spine has some unique characteristics that make thoracic spinal stenosis a little different than stenosis in other areas. Thoracic spinal stenosis rarely occurs in isolation, but is almost always accompanied by stenosis in the lumbar area, and sometimes also the cervical spine.
There are 12 thoracic vertebra and they articulate with the 12 sets of ribs that protect our major organs. The thoracic spine curves outward, and the curve is gentler than the cervical or lumbar curves. Because of the ribs, the thoracic spine is more fixed than the cervical or lumbar areas, too. Most of the motion of the thoracic spine is rotation, with little flexion or extension.
The spinal canal is naturally narrower in the thoracic area, even though the size of the spinal cord remains the same. That means there is less extra space, so it takes less obstruction to cause problems.
Symptoms
Like cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis, thoracic spinal stenosis can be congenital or acquired. There is a great deal of difference, however, in how it is manifested.
Most thoracic spinal stenosis is due to degenerative changes—arthritis in the joints, bone spurs, disc degeneration and other changes due to aging. As the degeneration progresses, you may experience pain in your back and legs, either aching in your legs when you walk that gets better when you rest, or pain that radiates down your back or legs. You may develop problems with walking or loss of bowel or bladder function.
Because the thoracic spinal canal is already naturally narrow, people with congenital spinal stenosis cannot tolerate any extra pressure on the spinal cord. They tend to develop symptoms of cord compression (loss of sensation or movement below the injury) rapidly after minor injury.
Treatment
Degenerative thoracic spinal stenosis may get better with conservative treatment, which includes anti-inflammatory medications, pain management and physical therapy. Steroid injections or nerve blocks may help manage the pain.
If the pain is uncontrolled or if there are signs of cord compression, however, surgery is necessary to relieve pressure on the cord or spinal nerves. Traditional surgical options are laminectomy or corpectomy to provide more room in the spinal canal and spinal fusion to stabilize the spine and prevent damage to the cord.
Minimally invasive surgery may be an option for some cases of thoracic stenosis. Surgery is done through an endoscope using a microscope to directly visualize the spine. Microsurgical techniques allow the surgeon to perform precise, delicate maneuvers to remove the nerve pressure and repair structures.
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