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Practicing meditation is good medicine for the prevention of ailments brought on by stress

Prolonged stress can result in a multitude of disorders such as weakened immune system, emotional problems with depression and anxiety, and panic disorders, and now as shown by a new study, arrhythmia.

Many healthcare practitioners prescribe meditation as a way to reduce stress and help manage pain. This is nothing new; the Buddha prescribed mindfulness as medicine to help ease that physical discomfort.

Since we live in bodies that can become ill or uncomfortable we can use meditation to teach us to be skillful in alleviating that discomfort, by soothing the related stress.

The conventional wisdom, regarding meditation, is that it takes time to learn to meditate skillfully enough to do this, to steady the mind and avoid the frustration that makes stress – and pain – even worse than it already is.

So it makes sense to find the quickest way to correctly meditate, teaching your body to respond in a healthy way to stressful circumstances including ill health. Click here to learn more about a good program I recommend (my affiliate link).

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