Originally published September 26 2005
Meditate to relieve stress
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Using mindful meditation to focus on the here and now of your life can help relieve stress that may result from fixating on events of the past or future.
You may have a mind that is full, but is it mindful?
Baime, a Philadelphia internist, is a true believer in mindful meditation.
Interested in meditation since he was 8 years old, he had to wait until age 14 to have Tibetan Buddhists train him in their technique.
He has conducted workshops for physicians and breast cancer patients and is starting to study obesity.
Before his visit to Grand Rapids on Wednesday for a free lecture, The Press interviewed him about his state of mind.
Meditation is just a fancy word for being where you are and allowing things in your life to be as they are -- for just that moment.
The horrible thing about having a mind is -- given its own way -- it will go into the past and drag up the most horrible things that have happened to us.
And when our mind isn't dredging up the shame, guilt and disasters of the past, it is equally likely to wander off into the future where it fantasizes the most horrible future.
Mindfulness is the deliberate undoing of our conscious, anxious wandering into the past and future.
It is a way to practice being completely and fully present in the actual moment of your life as it is happening now.
When you practice this, you discover the only moment you can find relaxation and freedom is in the present moment.
Mindfulness trains you to find this present moment, rest there, then deepen and expand the depth and spaciousness of that rest.
We live our lives as if we were on automatic pilot.
When we drive home from work, we get home, get out of the car, but we don't remember anything that happened on the way home.
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