Meditation Overview from National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH

What I work to do at Lumigrate for YOU, the reader/ user/YOUser / consumer who comes here, is distill down the best information and link to the 'good wheels out there' on a variety of topics, focusing on ones you likely would not find otherwise, while bringing a cadre of people I 'know' professionally.  

The Lumigrate YOU model, used from 2007 when co-developed with Dr. Chris Young in a brainstorming meeting with me for the patient education group we collaborated to co-create and co-lead in the Primary Care Partners / Docs on Call Building in Grand Junction, Colorado.  

This creates a virtual community we can all feel part of, potentially, at Lumigrate. And then I ALSO 'integrate' the mainstream, when appropriate, to perhaps 'remind us' of the resources in the more prominent and readily found aspects.   

I suggest if you're interested in meditation, take a trip to the following link to the National Institutes of Health's website for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's overview on meditation.  There are excellent references listed at the end which can be followed out for further learning.  For instance, I looked at the study about mindfulness meditation and autoimmune response.  

To use the Nike marketing slogan: "Just Do It".  But really, don't just read about meditation -- DO IT.  I find that people, myself included, are so busy learning and studying and thinking and sharing and talking, they're using up their TIME resources (and their energy resources) NOT "doing it"!   We all only have 24 hours in a day, the only fixed resource, as money and energy vary always.

Balance -- it's all about balance.  Turning inward is generally helpful to people.  And then when you DO come out to learn, I hope you come BACK here!  Some would refer to The Full Barrel Model (which Lumigrate developed for our initial content in 2008 based on Dr. Christopher Lepisto (ND) referring to it in every presentation and discussion he had.  

And in 2012 I'd have the 'load theory' / elevator model drawn up for those who thought more in those terms.  

AND The Onion.  

Where would YOU think about "meditation" being in each of these models? 

Live and learn.  Learn and live better!

~~ Mardy

nccam.nih.gov/health/meditation/overview.htm

Edited August 25, 2018 with 917 reads to that point in time, for minor grammar, punctuation, bolding, and graphics to embellish before sharing the link for a thread in Crystal Tripp's Dis~Ease Solutions Facebook group which got people "involved" and then it went "off the chain", in an unfortunate way and I wanted to offer something to the commenter who was working to engage in the discussion and very appropriately said they just weren't up to something challenging.  That was great 'balance', boundary setting, and I was pleased to see such a wise person contributing on the thread!