{"id":3624,"date":"2011-09-20T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesleyhannell.com\/staging\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2013-06-29T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T15:28:33","slug":"meditation-helps-to-reduce-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesleyhannell.com\/staging\/meditation-helps-to-reduce-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation helps to reduce Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is the biggest cause of illness in our world today and Meditation can help to reduce the effects of Stress on our minds and bodies. Stress is an internal response to an external event. How we FEEL and BEHAVE when we experience stress is largely a result of our PERCEPTIONS. Two people can experience the same event and have a totallly different response to it. Our perceptions create our reality and as such if we can be aware of and change our perceptioins then we can change our reality.<\/p>\n<p>Learning to focus attention internally, relax the body and quiet the mind can really help to create an internal calm from which we can respond differently to external events and stressors.<\/p>\n<p>Meditation has been shown to help in this process. Meditation is everyday living and a state of mind that we can learn to enter into at will when needed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch here for more details on Meditation and check out the calendar for upcoming meditation classes offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is the biggest cause of illness in our world today and Meditation can help to reduce the effects of Stress on our minds and bodies. Stress is an internal response to an external event. How we FEEL and BEHAVE when we experience stress is largely a result of our PERCEPTIONS. 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