Meditation Cuts Heart Attack Risk in Half

Meditation significantly reduces the risk of a heart attack for people with heart disease, scientists have discovered. Though Transcendental Meditation was used in the study, any "empty mind" type of meditation would achieve similar results, I'm sure.

Patients with heart disease who practised Transcendental Meditation cut their chances of a heart attack, stroke and death by half, compared with non-meditating patients, the first study of its kind has found.

Stress is a major factor in heart disease and meditation experts say the technique can help control it. Read more

Experience Yoga Nidra Meditation

To experience Yoga Nidra Meditation is to sleep like a yogi or yogini.It's a deep meditation bringing about calmness, peace, and clarity. It eliminates the root cause of stress, disease, and a lack of vitality and energy. Yoga Nidra is also known as psychic sleep and dynamic sleep. Yoga Training You explains Yoga Nidra and gives a free online script that you can record.

To best experience Yoga Nidra Meditation techniques...

• two or three hours after a meal
• use semi-darkness with the room temperature at your comfort level
• blanket to keep you warm
• may place pillows under the head and knee's

It's easy! Experience Nidra Meditations by recording the following step-by-step instructions. Turn on your recorder, and read aloud the following online script. Read more

Sat Kriya: Tantra Yoga for Sexual Health

Sat Kriya is a powerful Tantra yoga technique to cure sexual dysfunctions, improve sexual health, and increase the vibration of sexual energy, so it can be used for healing and spiritual evolution. This Tantric exercise is part of Kundalini Yoga.

Generating Unlimited Stamina with Sensuous Tantra Breathing

Sexual energy is a potent force that can also be harnessed for various spiritual goals and achievements. Tantra teacher Acharya Subhojit Dasgupta gives a Tantra exercise that helps us build unlimited sexual stamina with sensuous breathing.

Ancient tantra practices are a means of using the natural concentration of intense passionate desire to direct our minds beyond ourselves. The purpose of learning tantra was never to justify sexual addiction or hypocrisy – rather, these practices are meant to boost general well-being as well as specific psycho-spiritual abilities. For this reason, I suggest that my students imagine their energy being released through the tops of their heads after ending their daily spiritual experience.

Tantra utilizes all our energies, and our inherent sexual energy is a very powerful and potent force that can also be harnessed for various spiritual goals and achievements. Understanding the secrets of tantra with the help of a qualified tantra master can help create a very sensual and deep connection with your partner; this connection can be used to transcend awareness of mind and body, and to be totally present in the moment. Tantra scriptures ask us to find the right partner to practice these exercises in a transformative, consciousness-raising process.

I give here a specific tantra exercise that helps us build unlimited sexual stamina with sensuous breathing. This particular exercise must be done on an empty stomach, early in the morning. Read more

Study: Mantras Help Reduce Stress

Mantras are used by a variety of ancient spiritual traditions, all of which carefully specify the ways in which they must be employed. However, a new study has found that mantras from the major faith traditions, and even mantras without religious underpinnings, can help reduce stress.

Mantras can help with stress reduction, new research shows.

Mantras, or mantrams, are a word or phrase with spiritual meaning, write Jill Bormann, PhD, RN, and colleagues in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

The researchers studied 30 veterans and 36 hospital workers at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, where Bormann is a research nurse scientist. In a five-week class, participants chose a mantra and learned to use it to manage stress.

The study shows that the majority of participants used their mantras to help them cope with a wide range of problems, including anxiety, stress from traffic and work, insomnia, and unwanted thoughts. Read more

Transmuting Sexual Energy

Jaiya- New World Sex Educator and author of Red Hot Touch, talks about ways that we can move sexual energy through our bodies for deeper sexual experiences.

Movement for Freeing Orgasm

Tantra teacher Suzie Heumann explains why having a healthy pelvis can free a woman's orgasm.

Researchers from the University of the West of Scotland conducted a study on the correlation between the way women walk and whether or not they are vaginally orgasmic. After coming up with a set of criteria by which to judge, they set about filming 20 women walking. Half of the women were vaginally orgasmic (intercourse with no added, direct clitoral stimulation) and the other half self identified as not being vaginally orgasmic.

When the researchers asked the therapists previously trained with this set of criteria to identify the women whom they thought were vaginally orgasmic, they accurately identified 80 percent after watching them walk. The criteria involved how freely the women walked, their open, easy gait and the hip-to-leg rotation relationship of each woman. "This could reflect the free, unblocked energetic flow from the legs through the pelvis to the spine," the authors note. Basically, the more open, easy, freewheeling and swinging the woman's walk was, the more orgasmic potential she has, according to this study.

According to Stuart Brody, one of the authors of the study, "Blocked pelvic muscles, which might be associated with psychosexual impairments, could both impair vaginal orgasmic response and gait." Vaginally orgasmic women might also feel more confident about their sexuality, and their gait may reflect this feeling. Better mental health has been linked with vaginal orgasm in other current research. "Such confidence might also be related to the relationships that a woman has had, given the finding that specifically penile-vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of better relationship quality," say the authors. Read more

4 Steps to a Tantric-Like Sexual Experience

Tantric sex isn't as scary, difficult, or mystical as it sounds. Tonic gives four easy steps to a Tantric-like sexual experience.

"Tantric Sex" is one of those phrases, like Astral Projection or Tibetan Meditation, that most of us have heard but few of us can explain in any detail. But really, Tantric Sex isn't as scary or difficult or mystical as it sounds. It's just a way of sharing with your partner and using your body to achieve a richer sexual experience. Here are four easy steps you can take to achieve a tantric-like sexual experience. Read more

Ejaculation Control

Jaiya, author of Red Hot Touch, explains how men can master their orgasms and learn how to control the ejaculatory response.

Women's Tantric Breathing and Orgasm

Many people don't realize (or refuse to believe) how closely breathing is tied to health, meditative states, physical sensation, and orgasm. Suzie Heumann explains the connection.

"The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom."-- Annie Sprinkle, PhD., Tantrica & Ex-Porn Star

Breathing doesn't seem very sexy but it's the key to orgasmic pleasure and self-empowerment for women and to lasting longer for men. The benefits of learning new, simple ways of breathing are extraordinary and have direct health benefits, too. Breathing deeply into your belly increases relaxation, decreases tension and stress, helps women focus on pleasure and puts more oxygen into your blood stream. Oxygen is what delivers the 'O' in Orgasm. Read more