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How Meditation Can Help with Anxiety
Meditation is the ability to quiet the mind while providing natural healing benefits for all types of mental, physical and emotional health. 90% of people will suffer from anxiety at some point in their life. An estimated 6.8 million Americans have Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) which is a chronic condition they can’t shut off. If you have chronic anxiety, even the smallest thing can trigger an episode. Anxiety is provoked by racing thoughts that won’t go away. Anxiety will cause you to find yourself with fearful thoughts about finances, family, your health, and what’s happening at work. In general, anxiety can be defined as living in the future.
How To Fight Anxiety:
Numerous scientific studies have found meditation to be effective for treating anxiety. The overall conclusion is that by practicing mindfulness or meditation , the change in your brain produces beneficial results, with substantial improvement.
Meditation helps fight anxiety by quieting the overactive mind. Instead of buying into your fearful thoughts, you can start identifying with the silence that exists between every mental action. The key to releasing anxiety is to be in present moment awareness.
There are numerous ways you can deal with anxiety, besides taking medication.
5 self care tips in reducing anxiety:
- Regular meditation allows your brain to develop new pathways instead of the old worry grooves. The Loving Kindness Meditation CD is a good tool to use for this.
- Walking meditation is a good way to get exercise and reap the benefits of focusing only on the enjoyment of walking and clearing the mind.
- Conscious breathe counting slows down the mind to a place of peace and harmony.
- Balance diet can assist in evening out any anxiety caused by improper diet such as to much sugar.
- Exercise can help to place your mind on being healthy and away from fears and worry.
These simple self-care tools will help move you away from the worries of the future and into the joy of the present moment.
New Moon Free Community Meditation | Evanston Illinois
PICK A HERO TODAY – Don’t be Distracted – Happy New Moon.
Tapping Into Positive Energy
Happy New Moon – This New Moon is asking all of us to center on a Hero or a wisdom filled person who inspired us, mainly because the energy of this new moon is about making a choice, more importantly making a positive choice to anchor that energy for yourself but also for others. As the heavens opens up and share the energy of emotions, insight, guidance and healing We have the opportunity to create a floor plan for success both spiritually and financially. The energy could be erratic if we don’t focus on the right things. Don’t let all the bad choices government and bad
Tapping Into The New Moon
As the Mystics of old would say .. do not lead with fear but lead with wisdom and wisdom comes with meditation, Good Choices and our sacred breath.
Stay strong and lead with everything you have that is virtuous to help inspire others. Example. Post on Facebook your favorite hero and the virtuous principle your hero holds.
Free Meditation Class in Chicago
Join us for our special new moon meditation this Friday (Oct. 20) 6:30pm. We will be sharing wonderful techniques for the new moon and also providing a special gift for our attending community Join us for this great event and give me a big hug after meditation.
Blessings – Billie Topa Tate
Billie Topa Tate’ is the founder of MSI (Mystical Sciences Institute) an earth friendly educational institute located in Evanston, Illinois. Billie is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to presenting the sacred principles, doctrines, and teachings of her Native Culture and many ancient wisdom systems from around the world, creating synthesis through harmony of many lineages.
Billie is a traditional Native American healer and teacher of Mescalero Apache descent, trained and educated by numerous family Elders and extended family members. She is a Reiki Master Teacher Eighth Degree and licensed therapeutic massage therapist. Billie is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Massage Therapists and Illinois Nurses. Has written and lecturer extensively for more than 18 years. She is internationally recognized as a wonderful teacher, healer and advocate of Earth Friendly endeavors. Billie maintains a successful practice at her MSI center in Evanston, and with the expressed permission from her Native culture Billie shares many of the ancestral principles, healing systems and native wisdoms with her students and clients.
Harvest Full Moon | Send Virtuous Energy All Over The World
Happy Full Moon today – often called the Harvest moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time and a time of heart energy, reflection, awareness, fertilization, relationships, especially the one we have with ourselves.
Meditation today will produce a much needed quietness for insights and then contemplation.
Combined with the energetic action of becoming a conduit of positive and virtuous energy which can be streamed forth into the world, people and even our own personal projects as medicine for the world. This is the full moon of striving for sacred balance and a potential for sacred energy to come into the earth and people. So during meditation today and also throughout the day place your thoughts in a sacred place and send virtuous energy out to other people all over the world and ask that all people be saturated with virtuous energy to promote virtuous actions.
Send Virtuous Energy Out All Over The World. Share the Loving Kindness Meditation with a loved one today…
Today will be a powerful day for this effort of resetting all our systems to a calmer place and helping our world be filled with virtuous of kindness, peace and uplifting wisdom. Today at our Meditation location in Chicago, we will be utilizing the above advice to bring out the most sacred energy of the new moon.
Many blessings,
Billie Topa Tate
Billie Topa Tate’ is the founder of MSI (Mystical Sciences Institute) an earth friendly educational institute located in Evanston, Illinois. Billie is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to presenting the sacred principles, doctrines, and teachings of her Native Culture and many ancient wisdom systems from around the world, creating synthesis through harmony of many lineages.
Fall Equinox Free Community Meditation | Evanston Illinois
Join Billie Topa Tate for a Fall Equinox meditation this Friday September 22nd 6:30pm. The heavens open up a beautiful time to reflect on the blessings that are on their way and also the Mystical times of recent past. This is a Native American tradition of when we share harvest gifts with all attendees at our meditation and provide special techniques on how to tap into the wonderful Equinox energy.
Come ride the wave of wonderful Equinox energy during our meditation, sharing of gifts and viewing some wonderful displays of native items brought back from Billies ceremonial journey a few weeks ago.
The Loving Kindness Meditation starts at 6:30pm. Please arrive early and enjoy warm tea and community before meditation. Join us for the Loving Kindness Meditation offered free and open to the public Friday’s at 6:30pm. No registration required and walk-ins are welcome!
Billie Topa Tate’ is the founder of MSI (Mystical Sciences Institute) an earth friendly educational institute located in Evanston, Illinois. Billie is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to presenting the sacred principles, doctrines, and teachings of her Native Culture and many ancient wisdom systems from around the world, creating synthesis through harmony of many lineages.
Billie is a traditional Native American healer and teacher of Mescalero Apache descent, trained and educated by numerous family Elders and extended family members. She is a Reiki Master Teacher Eighth Degree and licensed therapeutic massage therapist. Billie is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Massage Therapists and Illinois Nurses. Has written and lecturer extensively for more than 18 years. She is internationally recognized as a wonderful teacher, healer and advocate of Earth Friendly endeavors. Billie maintains a successful practice at her MSI center in Evanston, and with the expressed permission from her Native culture Billie shares many of the ancestral principles, healing systems and native wisdoms with her students and clients.
Share The Love With Free Online Meditation
Meditation Across The World
Our Loving Kindness goal is to provide everyone in the world an opportunity to meditate to the Loving Kindness Meditation and its working!!! We receive telephone calls from people all over the world from South Africa, Argentina, Britain, New Zealand, and Sweden and everywhere in the United States. Our growing project is truly helping create a world filled with compassion.
Each and every person has reason to hope for peace and today we can create a sacred space for everyone and make a difference. It would be wonderful if everyone in the world would meditate to the Loving Kindness Meditation. We can do this with your loving help by sharing this blog with a loved one.
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