I Am. I Am. I Am.
BENEFITS
Meditation has been shown to help with:
Stress
Chronic Pain
Coping
Memory
Addiction
A.D.D.
Depression
Sense of self
Hyperactivity
Anxiety
Empathy
Improved attention, concentration and overall psychological well-being
Increased well-being and quality of life
Cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day
EXPERIENCE
We know first-hand the benefits of these techniques and believe that everyone should have access. We have all had hardships and these techniques can help us overcome our adversities and allow us to transcend to a more peaceful and healthful way of life. This is our passion and we feel called to share this knowledge with those who seek.
Sarah has practiced mindfulness, meditation and prayer techniques for nearly twenty years. She has been taught by professors, pastors, gurus and monks. She has trained in mindfulness, breath practices, loving kindness, hands-on prayer, Reiki, visualization, manifesting, contemplative prayer and more.
RESEARCH AND RESOURCES
“…Meditation training has been shown to affect emotional processing in the brain outside of a meditative state.”
"…Increased amygdala activation was also correlated with decreased depression scores… Overall, these results are consistent with the overarching hypothesis that meditation may result in enduring, beneficial changes in brain function, especially in the area of emotional processing.”
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“Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.”
“Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology.”
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta Hölzel, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany.”
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“Meditation has been shown to help in variety of health problems, such as helping people quit smoking, cope with cancer, and even prevent psoriasis,” Brewer said.”
“…Experienced meditators had decreased activity in areas of the brain called the default mode network, which has been implicated in lapses of attention and disorders such as anxiety, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and even the buildup of beta amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease.”
“Physicians have clinically employed meditation to successfully help treat disorders like depression, anxiety, addictions, and chronic pain…”
“A growing body of evidence suggests that mindfulness training can help anxiety, chronic pain, addictions, and other disorders…”
“’It [meditation] could certainly be used to help people work through frustration and anxiety so that they don’t move into a clinical depression or clinical anxiety disorder, or start using drugs. But at the same time, it can be used when people already have these disorders.’ In a previous study, Brewer taught mindfulness training to people who wanted to quit smoking who had tried unsuccessfully an average of five to six times before. Meditation was able to help these individuals quit smoking when all other methods failed...”
“Research shows that, with practice, meditation can be helpful in reaching a happier, healthier state of mind.”