New FREE Online Stress Relief Course

A new 7 day Stress Busting course is now available from my main website.

The course is absolutely free. You need do nothing more than sign up for it on the link below.
You will then receive each day's lesson by e-mail.

The course provides practical relaxation techniques and carefully designed exercises for reducing the symptoms of stress.

Discover creative and healing methods of combatting stress by enroling on the 7 Day Stress Busting E-Course.

To enrol, click on the link, scroll to the bottom of the page and complete and submit the short form:

FREE 7 Day Stress Busting E-Course

Health Benefits of Meditation

Here are a couple of articles detailing recent medical research into the health benefits of meditation.

Click to read full article: Meditation Fools The Brain

This article outlines recent research studies carried out by universities in the United States into the health benefits of meditation which include boosting the immune system, improving memory, controlling binge eating (and increasing happiness!)

Click to read full article: Transcendental Meditation and Congestive Heart Failure

This article discusses a study carried out by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with African American men and women in their sixties. The study demonstrated that Transcendental Meditation significantly improved the quality of life and emotional state of the participants as well as reducing the physical factors that contribute to heart failure.

More about the benefits of transcendental meditation on the Creative Healing Meditation website.

Aromatherapy and Cancer

Extensive research carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London has shown that aromatherapy sessions can significantly ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy or other forms of medical treatment.

The study examined the affects of aromatherapy treatments on people who had been experiencing panic attacks, insomnia, anxiety or depression following chemotherapy. These individuals had different types of cancer and were at different stages of the disease.
Selected individuals were monitored over 12 weeks and given a course of weekly aromatherapy treatments.

Although the aromatherapy did not seem to ease the physical side-effects of their cancer treatment, it did alleviate the feelings of stress, panic, anxiety and depression in those who undertook the course of aromatherapy massage sessions.

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