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People are anxious about their health, their finances, relationships, safety, and work. Doctors and medical practitioners are promoting the benefits of meditation to relieve stress and anxiety.
Life in today’s world is stressful. People are anxious about their health, their finances, their relationships, their safety, and their work. Doctors and medical practitioners are promoting the benefits of meditation to relieve stress and anxiety. By sitting in meditation, we can calm the body and the mind. We can slow our brain waves to states of relaxation. When we are in a state of physical and mental calmness. We can make better decisions. Once we connect to a place of happiness and peace within us, we experience a reduction in our anxiety. Through meditation, we can cope with the stresses of life. Meditation helps us replace anxiety with joy and peace. Join Dr. Matthew Raider, long-time meditator, for this informative lecture. There will even be a short meditation sitting.
About the presenter:
Matthew Raider received his M.D. degree with honors from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1979. He had a clinical practice for 42 years during which time he was the medical director of several health care facilities in central CT. Dr. Raider has been active in teaching geriatric medicine and has helped coordinate the geriatrics curriculum for medical residents at Middlesex Hospital in CT. He still is actively involved in teaching residents, medical students, and nurse practitioners. Dr. Raider has had a long interest in meditation going back over 50 years. He is also a contributing author to “Meditation as Medication for the Soul” by Rajinder Singh. Dr. Raider has a particular interest in the health benefits of meditation and he has lectured extensively in hospitals and libraries in the U.S. and Canada as well as at the United Nations fairly recently.
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