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health and well being

Meditation: Demystified and
Simplified

“Meditation is very easy!”Take it from the
enigmatic certified clinical hypnotherapist
Mariam Leah Yasin.With the hectic juggle
of raising a babe and maintaining a career,
it’s understandable if you’d think that it is
easier said than done. But what if it IS actually

THAT easy?

mother, baby & child April 2011 MEDITATE TO more peaceful in handling life’s BEING THE
REGULATE challenges. Stress is gradually CHANGE
being replaced by grace.
You need not seek wisdom Born into an American-
in mystical India, find solace As a mother, you need the Palestinian union, Mariam
in tropical Thailand or even mental, emotional and physical embraced diversity and change
escape to the countryside of strength to bind the family early in her life. She asserts that
the western world to combat together. her intuitive nature dates back
today’s spiritual aridity. It’s from near the beginning of her
about time to throw this This retreat into your years. Her childhood was spent
common misconception out mind holds limitless benefits in the United States of America.
of the window. Simply put, to your health and wellbeing— And her teenage years were
meditation is a time to go scientifically, for one. Studies divided between Jordan and
inward and connect with show that meditating for a few the United Arab Emirates. This
oneself. It is a way to disconnect minutes a day has a magnitude relentless travelling developed
from the environment with all of health benefits. It significantly a degree of open-mindedness
the outside stressors. A mere decreases stress, promotes in her to further understand
five minutes a day can create better sleep and reduces the the universe. She obtained her
wondrous developments in your risk of disease. It can also alter Communications degree as a
life. The more often you practise your emotions that results to a Suma Cum Laude. For years
this, the deeper you can get in happier disposition. The deep towards her thriving career
touch with your inner psyche. It physical relaxation harmonises in marketing and advertising,
will also help you to easily get your endocrine system. This she discovered that there
your mind uncluttered with the maintains a balance in your were indeed answers to her
everyday concerns of a busy moods and in turn, the brain existential questions. She was
mum. “It’s all about practising! secretes higher level of
You didn’t learn to ride a bike serotonin: the ‘happy chemical’!
from the first go right?” says
Mariam. She professes that with
time, a meditation individual
becomes more balanced and

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