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WHEE and Meditation for Wholistic Self-Healing
 
 
By Daniel J. Benor, MD

Meditation is widely acknowledged as one of the best ways to improve your health. Research shows that meditation can bring you benefits in dealing with stress, hypertension, pains of all sorts, eating disorders, pre-menstrual tensions, and can enhance concentration and performance. It is also acknowledged as an aid in developing and deepening spiritual awareness.

I have meditated regularly for over 25 years. My intent to sit in silence daily at least once, and if possible twice, has been honored more often than not. Busy periods of work or family visits and travels are the main distractions that have made it difficult or impossible to keep this promise I've made to myself. 

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Why Would You Say 'WHEE' When You Have Insomnia?

By Daniel J. Benor, MD

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
One after one; the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky -
I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie
Sleepless...
                    - William Wordsworth, "To Sleep"

Have you ever struggled to let go of the cares of your day, to drift into the nurturing embrace of sleep? Most of us suffer from sleeplessness from time to time. Fighting to enter the gateway of sleep is one of the most exquisite and unfortunately common tortures that most of us endure.

Sleep is a symptom that invites you to explore what your mind is having difficulties dealing with. Paradoxically, when we pick and poke at the thoughts and feelings that plague our attention when we lay our heads to rest on our pillow, the pursuit of sleep has the same results as when we chase our shadow. The balm of sleep continues its tantalizing and frustrating evasion of our of grasp.

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