Sit Down and Chill Out

Did you know that sitting down and chilling out at least once a day can help you live a healthier happier life?  Meditation isn’t a mystical thing.  It’s simply a continuous contemplation on something or absolutely nothing!  It’s quieting of the body and mind in order to reflect on self, the world around you, or spiritual matters. It’s good for you because it can:

•  lead to a deeper level of physical relaxation
• enhance energy, strength and vigor
• bring body, mind, spirit in harmony
• build self-confidence
• help with focus & concentration
• increase creativity
• increase emotional stability
• increase ability to solve complex problems
• provide peace of mind, happiness and deeper understanding of yourself and others 

There are many ways to meditate.   You can sit down, quiet yourself, and use your imagination or you can focus on something while you relax and breathe.  You can listen to soothing music, pray, think, or just be still.  Do whatever makes keeps you calm and quiet.  Taking time out to free yourself of stress can increase your lifespan and raise you happiness meter.  So take a seat!

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It's Real If You Think It's Real...

Your thoughts are very powerful, so powerful that they can determine your physical and mental health.  This is proven by studying how placebos work.  A placebo is a prescribed pseudo-medication such as a sugar pill or salt water injection that is given to a patient under the pretense that it is real medication.  Studies have shown that patients feel better because they think they are being treated when in all actuality, they are not.  The belief that the placebo is real medication causes the brain to release morphine-like chemicals called endorphins to relieve their pain. 

On the opposite spectrum of things, people can experience an equally strong nocebo effect.  If patients are told that the placebo will cause negative side effects, people will start to experience negative side effects even if there is no scientific reason why those side effects should occur.  In one study, placebos were given to patients and told that the side effect was vomiting, by the end of the day, 80% of the patients were vomiting.

The mind is a powerful thing.  It is very true you are what you think you are, and you feel how you think you feel.   Keep mind over matter.  I hope this encourages you to stay positive!  

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