Excerpt from the PBS special Meditation for All of Us with Stephan Bodian- Clip 1
01:59 min
CLEAR ALL
Describes the use of meditation to promote self-healing of the symptoms of both physical and mental conditions.
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Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.
Consider doing something nice for your poor, flustered brain. Don't know how to meditate? Neither did we! So we asked Andy Puddicombe, the cofounder of Headspace and the voice on its app, to write this basic script. Have a friend read it to you slowly, setting a timer for 10 minutes.