We know how important it is to you to succeed in your study and how stressful it can be preparing for exams. Here are two simple ways to get better results!
Using the ENSO in your yoga and meditation practice
Decide on how long your practice will be (say 1 hour). Check out the time on your ENSO Pearl (say, 6:40am) and determine your end time (7:40 am in this example). I personally don’t set the timer for the end of my practice, as I use the ENSO Pearl throughout my practice, and time my relaxation (Savasana) to finish at the end time.
Meditation
The ENSO Pearl makes a perfect companion for your meditation. Set the timer for the period you require to meditate. Have the ENSO Pearl close by, in a visible position, either propped up on its stand or lying flat on the floor. Press the ENSO button and hold for 2 seconds – this removes the potentially distracting numbers on the clock face. This function enables you to gently take in visual time elapsed by viewing the brush stroke on the face of the ENSO Pearl.
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Binaural beat frequencies have been incorporated into both the base and sound tracks so you receive double the benefit of this powerful technology. The biobeat frequencies used in healingsounds gradually slide from 15Hz (upper limit of Beta (alert) range) to 2.3Hz (delta – deep meditation) in the first 20 minutes and stay at Delta for the remaining 40 minutes.
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Are you going through the change?? Longing for an unbroken night’s sleep?
If you’re having hot flushes you’ll know the drill: throw back the quilt, cool down…… wake up again cold, pull on the quilt again……lack of sleep, wet sheets. Here are some ideas to help you manage your sleep….
ENSO Pearl supports A Course in Miracles lessons
Gloria Oelman of South Australia wrote to tell us that she uses her ENSO to support her practice of A Course in Miracles lessons…. “I’ve had a variety of timers over the years and this is by far the best. I use the ENSO for meditation. I also study A Course in Miracles and that has a workbook with affirmations that often require frequent periodic repetitions, so I use it for that too…”
While A Course in Miracles doesn’t suggest daily meditation in the traditional sense of the word, the journey through the 365 daily lessons essentially is a journey into meditation and mindfulness.
As with any other meditation practice, Course students will recognise that while the approach called for in the daily lessons is not of itself complicated, it is a daily challenge to find the dedication needed to undertake the lessons as prescribed. The Course explains that this is our ego in action. It would rather keep us focused in the dramas of our daily lives, rather than support us to ‘return Home’ to ourselves and find true peace.
Over an Hour of Meditation Reduces Pain – source : Deccan Herald
A little over an hour of meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, a new study shows.
“This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Fadel Zeidan, who led the study.
“We found a big effect – about a 40 percent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 percent reduction in pain unpleasantness,” added Zeidan, post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre.
“Meditation produced a greater reduction in pain than even morphine or other pain-relieving drugs, which typically reduce pain ratings by about 25 percent,” said Zeidan, reports the Journal of Neuroscience.
For the study, a group of healthy volunteers who had never meditated attended four, 20-minute classes to learn a meditation technique known as focused attention, according to a Wake Forest statement.
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Mobile Phone & Sleep
It seems there is very little a mobile phone can’t do – the days of using phones for just telling the time are long gone. But the question remains – are mobile phones good for us or are they a curse in disguise?
Mobile phones have become, in many cases, another appendage to our body. We can’t go anywhere without them. Teenagers in particular tend to keep their phones with them wherever they go, including to bed. They often leave them under their pillow on ‘vibrate’ in case they miss a call or text from a friend. This has led
to some very concerning studies
around the safety of mobile phones at bedtime. Telephone makers’ own scientists have discovered that bedtime use of mobile phones can lead to headaches, confusion and depression. Read Full Article
Biofeedback can not only help a child use brain waves they don’t usually employ, but it may also help increase blood flow to specific parts of the brain involved with ADHD,” says Lubar. “Used with behavior therapies that incorporate classroom and homework skills, neurofeedback can help these children become less dependent on stimulants like Ritalin.”
More than 700 groups nationwide are using EEG biofeedback for ADD/ADHD, according to the Association for Applied Psychotherapy and Biofeedback, an organization of biofeedback practitioners. The ADHD therapists have reported that patients experienced a 60 to 80 percent significant improvement in symptoms and much less need for medicine.
Dr. J. Alan Cook, a psychiatrist in Mt. Vernon, Washington, uses it for 25 to 35 percent of his patients, treating such problems as depression, addiction, bipolar disorder and ADHD. “Once the training has been completed, patients seem to retain the benefits long term,” he says.
As scientists understand better how the brain works — or fails to work — they are finding more and more ways it can heal itself.
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