Meditation
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alternative medicine, stress management
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Scope Note
state of consciousness in which the individual eliminates environmental stimuli from awareness so that the mind can focus on a single thing, producing a state of relaxation and relief from stress; a wide variety of techniques are used to clear the mind of stressful outside interferences; includes meditation as a therapy.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- The other is understanding exactly what Meditation is.
- Meditation is a means of transforming the mind.
- com! Meditation is one of the proven alternative therapies.
- The technique of Vipassana Meditation is taught at ten-day residential courses during which participants learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results.
- Shamatha, or mindfulness, meditation is how we make this mind more stable, more useful.
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