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Meditation helps with Anxiety

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work or school. In people with anxiety disorder, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person's thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities and relationships.

The symptoms of Anxiety include:

Excessive, ongoing worry and tension
An unrealistic view of problems
Restlessness or a feeling of being "edgy"
Irritability
Muscle tension
Headaches
Sweating
Difficulty concentrating
Nausea
The need to go to the bathroom frequently
Tiredness
Trouble falling or staying asleep
Trembling
Being easily startled

Benefits of meditation in Anxiety

A study conducted at the University of Vienna found a significant beneficial effect of Sahaja Yoga Meditation on state and trait anxiety in healthy adults.

A group of 37 adults was taught Sahaja Yoga Meditation for 8 weeks and compared to a group of 32 adults who received no intervention and a group of 32 adults who had to listen to music of Mozart.

The group who received meditation showed a significant reduction in their levels of state and of trait anxiety compared to both controls and to the group that listened to Mozart.

http://www.meditationresearch.co.uk
Hackl, W. (1995) Die Auswirkungen von Sahaja Yoga auf das Drogenkonsumverhalten (The effect of Sahaja Yoga on drug consumption). Doctoral thesis submitted to the University in Vienna, 1995.

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Hola me gustaría saber dónde podría, encontrar el libro de meditación para la ayuda con la ansiedad de " SAHAJA YOGA " del DR Romesh Monocha
Dec 11, 2009

Holaaa:
Soy Española y me metí en esta pag por saber cosas a cerca del ” YOGA ” Y sus efectos tan saludables.
Un saludo.

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ardilla
Sep 23, 2010

Hola, no se si hay un libro pero hay este sitio web, si entiendes ingles: http://www.researchingmeditation.org/
En español hay este libro Autocuracion Sahaja, que se puede comprar de aqui:
http://www.liebremarzo.com/libros/autocuracion_sahaja.htm
Mucha suerte!

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Cosmicsea7
Feb 28, 2012

Can this also help people with Social Anxiety Disorder?

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MERVE
November 26th, 2012
ı have anxiety ı hope it will help

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Christine
Aug 27, 2013

I agree on this article. Anxiety is cause sometimes with your daily routine or life events. Sometimes, we just need to stay calm and enjoy life.

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Mark
Apr 8, 2014

Meditation has become a important part of my daily life. I suffer from anxiety attacks myself.

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