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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Detoxing through meditation



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Garvey Harris
Trainee Hypno-Psychotherapist,  Hypnotherapist
Mindfulness Therapist, Teacher and Supervisor

Detoxing through meditation
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Stress changes the quality of life
Stress responses can be recognised as stress symptoms. Stress symptoms ar warning signs that you are being exposed to above normal stress conditions which will:

  • Affect your emotions
    • Increase negative thinking
  • Affect your appetite
    • Increase it
    • Reduce it
  • Affect your motivation
    • Increase it
    • Reduce it
  • Affect your sleep
    • Increase it
    • Reduce it
  • Affect your sexual drive
    • Increase it
    • Reduce it
  • Affect your confidence
    • Increase it
    • Reduce it
  • Increase dependency
    • On drugs
    • On alcohol


Meditation detoxifies body stress
  1. Focus on each breath
  2. Count from 100 backwards
  3. Each number equals one breath
  4. Keep recounting till you are making mistakes because you are really relaxed
Benefits
  • Body relaxes
    • Lowers  stress hormones
    • Lowers stress response
    • Lowers stress behaviours
    • Lowers physical stress
    • Lowers emotional stress
    • Lowers psychological stress
    • Lowers muscular stress
    • Lowers skeletal stress
    • Lowers cardiovascular stress
    • Lowers immune system stress
    • Lowers fertility stress
    • Improves overall personal performance
  1. Connecting
    Connecting with your peers
  2. Learning
    Learn something new everyday
  3. Giving
    Give acts of kindness
  4. Active
    We need activity everyday
  5. Notice
    Be mindful, pay attention to the moment
STRESS RELATED FACTS AND STATISTICS
  • The Stress in America survey results show that adults continue to report high levels of stress and many report that their stress has increased over the past year – American Psychological Association.
  • 75% of adults reported experiencing moderate to high levels of stress in the past month and nearly half reported that their stress has increased in the past year – American Psychological Association.
  • Approximately 1 out of 75 people may experience panic disorder – National Institutes of Mental Health.
  • Stress is a top health concern for U.S. teens between 9th and 12th grade, psychologists say that if they don’t learn healthy ways to manage that stress now, it could have serious long-term health implications – American Psychological Association.
  • 80% of workers feel stress on the job and nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress.  And 42% say their co-workers need such help – American Institute of Stress.
  • Stress levels in the workplace are rising with 6  in 10 workers in major global economies experiencing increased workplace stress.  With China (86%) having the highest rise in workplace stress – The Regus Group
  • Alarmingly 91% of adult Australians feel stress in at least one important area of their lives.  Almost 50% feel very stressed about one part of their life – Lifeline Australia.
  • Australian employees are absent for an average of 3.2 working days each year through stress.  This workplace stress costs the Australian economy approximately $14.2 billion – Medibank
  • An estimated 442,000 individuals in Britain, who worked in 2007/08 believed that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill – Labour Force Survey.
  • Approximately 13.7 million working days are lost each year in the UK as a result of work-related illness at a cost of £28.3 billion per year – National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
  • Depression is among the leading causes of disability worldwide – World Health Organization
  • Fewer than 25% of those with depression world-wide have access to effective treatments – World Health Organization.
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