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This is Part X of a twenty-two part mini-course in Meditation in which I discuss the benefits of Meditation, how to best do it and use it and then lead you in a guided meditation at the end. In order to get the most out of these blogs and podcasts, it would be best for you to go back and start with the first blog entry on January 25, 2009.

If something stressful happens, the calmer you can remain the wiser and more sensibly you will respond. If you are constantly freaking out, then you are just going to respond in a way that is usually not very appropriate. So, what I am saying here is that most people don't realize that the calmer they are the better they are able to respond to any given situation.

Yes, again there are certain situations where being proactive is good, of course, but if we are always anticipating and always being hyper-vigilant, oh my God, we are always on guard. How can you ever be relaxed? How can you enjoy your life?

Also, it is interesting to note that depending on the kind of stress you are experiencing, the tension gets stored in specific areas of your body. If you are into a lot of worry, anxiety, being very upset and/or overly excited, the tension goes into your abdominal area.

When you are in any of these emotional states what happens is that your adrenals are going crazy and are in overdrive and as a result they are secreting stress hormones. As well, your digestive track is compromised thus you don't eat when you are stressed because there are no digestive juices being secreted. Or you do eat and your food is poorly digested and minimally absorbed. As well, your pancreas is overworked and your blood sugar goes berserk. Do this enough and you end up with diabetes. Also your spleen gets all stressed out which compromises up your immune system. So when we are overly worried and anxious we store a lot of tension in this area and negatively affect a lot of organs.

This is Part X of a twenty-two part blog.

Please go to the following link if you have interest in my award winning book on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com/

As well, if you have interest in my Meditation CDs, please go to the following link:
http://www.LearnMastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Meditation--A Way to Become Physically, Mentally and Metaphysically Fit, Part IX Podcast"



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This is Part IX of a twenty-two part mini-course in Meditation in which I discuss the benefits of Meditation, how to best do it and use it and then lead you in a guided meditation at the end. In order to get the most out of these blogs and podcasts, it would be best for you to go back and start with the first blog entry on January 25, 2009.

The mind creates all kind of havoc when it is in overdrive and anything that is in overdrive too long eventually crashes or causes crashes. Run your computer with too many programs all at once and it just freezes up on you. And then you have to do whatever you have to do to get it back up and running again. The same thing applies when you overload your mind with fear, worry, anger, etc, you create a systems breakdown within your body. Modern science is substantiating this.

The mind is not meant to be going or multi-tasking all the time. Believe me, when I started learning about all of this, I thought that what I have just been saying was a pile of poop. It was like, "Right?" I was convinced that I had to always be thinking and anticipating everything. I thought I was a human "doing" and a human "thinking" rather than a human "being" as Deepak Chopra writes.

So, despite my Southern Mediterranean ancestry which I conveniently blame for everything wrong with me--you know, all that over excitability that we kind of get into--but despite my ancestry, my over excitability does not have to be the way I function in life. I can use my ancestry and upbringing as an excuse for my "problems," but my life is really completely in my control if I learn how to "catastrophyze" and "awfulize" less and less.

If you can remember to just take slow, long deep breaths as often as you can and focus on your breath, then your mind will chill out and your body will relax. When you do this, you come back to what is really important. Matter of fact, what is really most important comes to you more easily because you are calmer and, therefore, more aware.

This is Part IX of a twenty-two part blog.

Please go to the following link if you have interest in my award winning book on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com/

As well, if you have interest in my Meditation CDs, please go to the following link:
http://www.LearnMastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Meditation--A Way to Become Physically, Mentally and Metaphysically Fit, Part VIII Podcast"



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This is Part VIII of a twenty-two part mini-course in Meditation in which I discuss the benefits of Meditation, how to best do it and use it and then lead you in a guided meditation at the end. In order to get the most out of these blogs and podcasts, it would be best for you to go back and start with the first blog entry on January 25, 2009.

Another way of saying what I am saying is that if you put "junk food" in your body, you know you will end up with a junky body eventually. What most people don't realize is that if you have a lot of junky thoughts, you will, also, have a junky body and, as well, as end up with junky experiences in your life.

Whatever you focus on, you end up experiencing in life. Whatever you are looking at, you see. That is just the way it works. The purpose of explaining all of this is not to turn you into a meditating junkie or a guru or have you go off to the Himalayas, take your clothes off and wander around eating berries. I mean unless that is your idea of a good time. It is not mine, I might add. Eating berries are OK, but I would rather buy them at a grocery store.

What I am suggesting is that when you were a child you knew how to breathe correctly and you knew how to relax. Kids know how to find the "zone." But as time went on, you acquired patterns that taught you that "thinking" or "doing" or "worrying" all the time somehow was good.

Now am I saying here; "Don't think?" No, not at all! Am I saying don't be proactive? No, not at all! What I am saying is that this organ, the mind, is meant to slow down periodically or to go into neutral. Just like your car does. If your mind does not take periodic breaks, you don't sleep well at night. It is, also, why you may feel jittery and can't focus. It is very likely why you overeat. As well, it has many other negative ramifications.

This is Part VIII of a twenty-two part blog.

Please go to the following link if you have interest in my award winning book on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com/

As well, if you have interest in my Meditation CDs, please go to the following link:
http://www.LearnMastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Meditation--A Way to Become Physically, Mentally and Metaphysically Fit, Part VII Podcast"



(length 6:54 minutes)



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This is Part VII of a twenty-two part mini-course in Meditation in which I discuss the benefits of Meditation, how to best do it and use it and then lead you in a guided meditation at the end. In order to get the most out of these blogs and podcasts, it would be best for you to go back and start with the first blog entry on January 25, 2009.

But even though what you were worrying about doesn't actually happen to you, you still physiologically have the experience as if you did. You may have been taught if you worry about things, they won't happen or you will better anticipate what to do. But worrying all the time really wears your body down because of all the catabolic hormones you release into your body.

I would suggest that if you proactively come up with a plan for something that you think might happen, let the plan sit and don't worry or think about it again. This way you will not be wearing your body out with stress hormones. When the time comes to act, you will know what to do and you will do what is best for the situation.

But if you "awfulize" all the time, you then send stress hormones throughout your system and catabolize or breaking down your system. So, worrying all the time will eventually trigger whatever genetic weaknesses you may have to come to the surface. If you are not doing all this "awfulizing and catastophyzing", then the genetic predispositions may never surface or may surface in a way that is not significant.

So we don't choose the genetic predispositions we inherit, but we do choose, to a greater degree, which ones are triggered and to which degree they are triggered by our mental and emotional behavior, as well as our diet.

So, it is so important to understand that meditation is an integral and essential component in attaining wellness. It is as important as diet and exercise in terms of physiological well-being. Most people don't associate meditation with being physiologically well. But the connection is essential.

This is Part VII of a twenty-two part blog.

Please go to the following link if you have interest in my award winning book on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com/

As well, if you have interest in my Meditation CDs, please go to the following link:
http://www.LearnMastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:

"Meditation--A Way to Become Physically, Mentally and Metaphysically Fit, Part VI Podcast"



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This is Part VI of a twenty-two part mini-course in Meditation in which I discuss the benefits of Meditation, how to best do it and use it and then lead you in a guided meditation at the end. In order to get the most out of these blogs and podcasts, it would be best for you to go back and start with the first blog entry on January 25, 2009.

Before we get to the meditation exercise, I would like to share the following regarding the physiological value of meditation. There are studies showing that just mediation by itself can actually help to not only prevent heart disease but to actually reverse it. It has been found that by meditating regularly plaque can actually be sloughed off of the arteries. This can occur because when you meditate you release hormones into your body that heal and repair--that is, anabolic hormones. When you are having stressful, negative thoughts your body does not release these hormones. It releases, instead, catabolic hormones that tear down your body.

Your body is always striving to maintain and attain homeostasis or balance. If you stop creating tension, you give it a chance to find this balance and healing.

When a rhinoceros is charging, you need to run or fight, in other words, the fight or flight response. And so, when under stress, you release hormones that give you the energy to run like the dickens or fight to the death, but in the process you are tearing your body down from the inside-out.

Also, it is interesting to note that modern science has discovered that whatever we imagine, we experience physiologically. So, if you just imagine something negative, your body responds physiologically as if it is having the negative experience. So that is why worry is totally useless and detrimental to do because 80% or 90% of what worry about does not even happen.

This is Part VI of a twenty-two part blog.

Please go to the following link if you have interest in my award-winning book on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com/

As well, if you have interest in my Meditation CDs, please go to the following link:
http://www.LearnMastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm

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