Hello, to All,
It's been a busy week for me, so I'm taking it easy this weekend, to 'balance' the necessary busyness-out-in-the-world.
I've researched & discovered some very excellent weblinks to share. Those of you, who perhaps like myself and others here, have come to a seeming end-of-the-road with what traditional medical and healthcare providers (for most of us) can offer --- and whatever self-care we have managed thus far.
For those of you who are perhaps averse to (in your religious beliefs or other reasons), otherwise cynical, negative, or skeptical about the scientific validity of yoga and meditation in the very real world of medical healthcare, and in our own most basic individual health-healing-wellbeing --- this is *not* for you.
[Thus don't bother to read any further. Just in case you're 'having a bad time' & looking to be 'a poop' somewhere, leave it at the doorstep of your own mind.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXFx...eature=related
The weblink is to ~
:58 mins youtube video (excellent quality) of presentation at
UCSD, by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD in molecular biology 1971 from MIT; and is
Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
BTW: I have mentioned Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness-based stress reduction (based on insight meditation) and the U Mass. Med School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, on other/previous threads this month.
Also, for further reading:
http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/whatMBSR.php
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/about/index.aspx
Thus for those of us who are choosing to refer ourselves to other sources of wellbeing and healing beyond the obvious that so many of us have already hung-in-there-with, here is neuroscientific evidence that we can help ourselves through yoga, meditation, et al.
It is about
an hour long youtube video, so please don't try to watch it all in one-sitting.
You can always hit the pause button.
Sincerely,
Theta
