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The Calm app - known for helping people relax on a daily basis - has a new feature to help you fall asleep.

We all know how important it is to wind down at the end of a busy day. If you have kids, you know that bedtime stories are a vital part of the process. Now an app which is known for helping you relax is helping you fall asleep, too.

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Recently, I met up with Michael Acton Smith. He's the co-founder and co-CEO of Calm, a meditation app on Android and iOS already used by 8 million people to relax.

"Theres so much baggage around the word meditation, I think people assume its spiritual and woo-woo.We'remore interested in the neuroscience than the incense of meditation," explained Acton Smith in a room at the vintage chic restored Hotel Normandie in Los Angeles.

Now, in addition to the calming landscapes and soothing sound effects the app normally offers, there is a new feature called Sleep Stories.

"Theyre anything from 10 minutes to an hour long - theres a little bit of music, a few breathing exercises and people rarely get to the end of them," said Acton Smith.

Some are read by familiar voices like Ben Stein. There are even a handful for kids!

Calm worked with a clinical psychologist to engineer the stories to help you drift off.

"Our stories start interesting - then they get gently more sleep inducing until you fall asleep," said Action Smith.

The app features a selection of stories you can access for free but to unlock everything - including a daily meditation - subscriptions run as low as $5 dollars a month.

"The science shows so many positive impacts on ones life from helping us sleep better to improving our attention, focus, creativity, lowering blood pressure," explained Acton Smith.

If you want to give it a try, use the link below to access a free 30-day trial of everything the app offers. There is no credit card necessary to sign up.

https://www.calm.com/richontech

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By Suzanne Otte

Tension headaches, lack of patience, and feelings of anxiety are all too familiar experiences for many in our community. Even positive changes like moving to a new home, leaving a job, or becoming empty nesters can create a sense of uneasiness or loss.

Research tells us that stress contributes to depression, high blood pressure, anxiety disorders, and sleep problems among other mental and physical health issues, says Mary Pillsbury, an expert in meditation practice.

As meditation becomes more widely embraced, people are learning how to use it to gain a sense of calm, clear mindedness, and feeling of optimism for themselves.

Momentum of Meditation

Meditation has its roots in thousands of years of practice, including Eastern spiritual traditions. It wasnt until the late twentieth century that it began to gain recognition in the U.S. Today, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that, 8% of U.S. adults (18 million) have used some form of meditation including mantra, mindfulness and spiritual meditation, or meditation used in combination with other practices such as yoga or tai chi.

The medical community has also recognized benefits gained from meditation. According to Harvard Health Publications, a review conducted in 2014 by researchers at John Hopkins University assessed 47 research trials to determine the efficacy of meditation in promoting mental and physical health. Their findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reported that meditation helps to ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain.

Truth vs. Myth

If meditation offers so many benefits, why arent we all practicing it? Truth is that some people who have never tried meditation perceive it as mystical or too far out for them, when in reality its something that is accessible to everyone at any time whether in a group setting or practiced individually, says Pillsbury.

Meditation does not require incense or chanting. It does not have to originate from a place of spirituality or religion. Meditation does not take a long time to return benefits. And no, youre not required to have a transcendent experience while meditating.

Everyones experience can be different. Some people meditate deeply and report visual effects. Most feel a satisfying, peaceful sense of calmness, and still others doze off and fall asleep which is all perfectly okay. explains Pillsbury.

Meditation distracts our minds from worry and stress. Its gentle, compassionate, and nonjudgmental. My clients report that by practicing meditation, they make confident decisions, are less reactive, enjoy restful sleep, and feel like theyre better equipped to manage stress in their lives.

Lived Experience

What began more than a decade ago in her home has grown into a thriving practice. I started as a concerned parent, educating myself about tools to help kids including my own learn how to manage their anxiety, said Pillsbury, who discovered meditation and began to lead meditation sessions for the children of family friends. Parents were very supportive because they realized that meditation was helping their kids.

With the encouragement of friends, Pillsbury pursued coursework and training to expand her knowledge about meditation and began to teach adults through the Scituate Recreation Department. The community classes attracted a large group of all ages and there was a great level of camaraderie and enthusiasm, said Pillsbury.

Over time, her practice started to grow.

As I worked with more people, I realized that we spend much of our time outsideof our bodies. Stress surfaces in the form of short tempers, aches and pains, and shallow breathing, said Pillsbury. Meditation grounds us; it centers us and helps us to be present when we stop and breathe and notice where we are and how we feel.

Flexible Approach

Pillsbury works with a range of clients in groups and individually. I especially enjoy helping those who are experiencing a transition in their life, such as a divorce, career changers, kids leaving for college, or caring for aging parents.

Meditation practice can be especially helpful to provide stability, centeredness, and calming during times that may feel less secure. She notes that meditation is beneficial for anyone who seeks wellness and you dont have to fit a particular issue or situation to adopt the practice.

In addition to group and individual sessions, Pillsbury has worked with clients to create customized programs. Ive consulted with couples to schedule a date night meditation session and have explored meditation for organizational team building, self-pampering (think spa day), and to celebrate good stress (wedding party gathering or baby showers.) She applies her expertise and creativity to develop an approach that works best for her client.

Setting Expectations

Pillsbury emphasizes a nonjudgmental, safe, and comfortable environment where participants come as they are, relax, and leave better than they felt prior to meditation.

Forty-five minute sessions begin with techniques to deepen breathing and release tension followed by a guided (narrated) meditation sequence to help participants envision a journey toward relaxation. In-studio, group class members may bring a blanket and pillow and may meditate sitting up of laying flat. Priority one is the comfort of all participants and all levels of meditation experience are welcomed, emphasized Pillsbury.

One-to-one or workplace sessions may be customized according to the needs of the client. The benefits of meditation suit an office environment very well, where many people experience significant stress during their work day, said Pillsbury.

I plan to expand my practice to include more workplace clients and look forward to connecting with professionals who are interested in bringing a program to their office."

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Thats the unexpected implication of a small-scale study from Brown University.

By Tom Jacobs

Theres been quite a bit of recent research pointing to the benefits of mindfulness meditation. The regular practice of watching ones thoughts and emotions without judgment has been found to reduce stress, enhance resilience, and maybe even help with weight loss.

Its perhaps inevitable, then, that further research has added an asterisk to all that success. A new study that measures a valuable potential benefitreducing the intensity of negative emotionssuggests the technique, at least as it is currently caught, may be far more effective for women than for men.

Men may require mindfulness interventions better matched to the particular coping styles that they tend to use, reports a research team led by Rahil Rojiani of the Yale School of Medicine and Willoughby Britton of Brown Universitys Contemplative Studies Initiative.

The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, featured 77 Brown University undergraduates who took a 12-week course in mindfulness training. It included weekly seminars and three hour-long lab sessions per week.

The labs included approximately 30 minutes of a specific contemplative practice from Buddhist or Taoist traditions, the researchers write. Participants reported meditating an average of 41-and-a-half hours over the 12 weeks, including practice sessions at home; on average, the men meditated over seven hours more than the women.

At the beginning and end of the course, the students filled out a series of surveys, including one that measured both positive emotions (the degree to which they were currently experiencing such feelings as interest, excitement, and enthusiasm) and negative ones (shame, distress, irritability). They also noted the extent to which they learned key mindfulness skills, reporting their level of agreement with such statements as I watch my feelings without getting lost in them.

Both women and men improved significantly on most measures (of mindfulness), the researchers report. But in terms of practical results, the results were far more mixed. Female students reported significant reductions in negative emotions, while the men recorded slight but non-significant increases in these unwanted feelings.

This was surprising, says Britton, who added that she has found the same pattern in two additional (yet-to-be-published) studies. I wouldnt be surprised if this is a widespread phenomenon, she told the Brown University press office.

Britton and her colleagues suspect the results reflect the different ways men and women typically process negative emotions. Women tend to internalize by ruminating or engaging in self-critical behavior, they write, while men tend to externalize by distracting themselves or acting out in some way.

Mindfulness has been shown to decrease rumination, which would explain why the female students felt fewer negative emotions. But that same technique apparently prompted men to stop distracting themselves and focus on their unpleasant feelingsa valuable step toward self-awareness, but hardly one that would improve a persons mood.

The researchers found preliminary evidence that one particular aspect of mindfulness training was useful to men: the ability to identify, describe, and differentiate ones emotions. Becoming more emotionally literate has many practical benefits; this finding, which needs to be replicated and expanded upon, suggests men could benefit from practices that emphasize this skill.

It is also possible that more active forms of mindfulness training, such as yoga or Tai Chi, may work better for men given that they may better accommodate the external coping strategy more typical of men, the researchers add.

This was a small study, and previous research finding mindfulness helps marines recover from battlefield stress suggests it can, in fact, produce positive results in men. But these nuanced findings are a reminder that mindfulness is much like any other psychological intervention in that one size does not necessarily fit all.

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Life can be stressful (understatement of the century?). Between wrangling your morning commute, chipping away at your never-ending to-do list, and somehow maintaining a semblance of work-life balance,it can be hard to take a moment to just breathe.

But when you try to clear your mind for a meditation sesh, somehow youre flooded with thoughtsranging from your weekend brunch plansto thatembarrassing moment in yesterdays Pilates classall at the same time.

Relax, youre not a meditation failure. Mindfulness proRosie Acosta, a contributing expert towomens wellness siteNourish + Bloom, says its never too late to start.

Utilizing tools like yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, were essentially just creating more positive emotions, more energy, more focus, more presence, less distraction, Acosta says. For people who are beginning, once they do these things theyll notice a difference right away. Not only physiologically, but also mentally and emotionally.

You can find five minutes out of that 1,440-minute day to just do something for you and for your mental health.

Andthat doesnt mean you need to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to get in your dose of mindfulness (like Acosta does). The key, she says, is not making the practice a stressor for yourselfespecially if being super busy iswhy youre seeking it out in the first place.

If you have one minute or five minutes it makes such a huge difference, Acosta adds. I always say, there are 1,440 minutes in a day. You can find five minutes out of that 1,440-minute day to just do something for you and for your mental health.

To start, Acosta recommendsthree methods basedon your current emotional state, where you are physically, and how much time you have. Overall, the important part is to tune into the present, a skill Acosta says is the key to creating a healthy relationship with yourself.

I think its important to become attuned to who and what we are because were in a modern culture that is troubled, Acosta says. To be able to create mindfulness, relaxation, and present awareness is really key for us to be able to accomplish anything in life.

Below, Acosta shares three simple techniques to get more meditation in your lifeand you can also score her in-the-moment wisdom on the N+B Life app.

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Acosta recommends true beginners start with a breathing exerciseto help quiet your brains constant chatter. The mind typically wanders because it wants something to do, Acosta says. So when you tell the mind to pay attention to the breath, then youve given it an assignment.

Also? Its a great way to chill out when your stress levels spike. Youre disengaging from the actual thing that happenedwork pressure, getting into it with your husband, whateverthat caused that stress in the first place, she explains. You can then come back into the present with wisdom as opposed to reactivity.

How to do it:

1. Start off sitting, standing, or lying down, and set a timer for three to five minutes to give yourself one less excuse for distraction. Close your eyes (or leave them open, focusing on a single point) and pay attention to the inhale and exhale of your breath.

2.Begin creating a pattern with your breathing by inhaling through your nose for four seconds, pausing, then exhaling for five seconds (the longer exhale encourages your parasympathetic nervous system, which regulates stress, to calm you down).

3. If your mind strays, acknowledge that gently and bring it back to your breathing pattern.

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The body scan is really helpful for beginners who are wanting to get more into the benefits of what meditation does, Acosta says. Because you do it for longer than you would mindful breathing, so you can really feel into your body and can really feel the effects. The minute you start to bring awareness to different parts of your body, all of a sudden your breath changes.

How to do it:

1. Settle in for 10 to 20 minutes. Ideally, body scans should be performedlying down, but the method can also work seated (even in your office desk chair). If youre able to lie down, relax on your back in a position similar to yogas savasana pose.

2. Close your eyes, and begin to bring awareness to your body by methodically breathing in and out. Then, take inventory of each area on your body startingfrom your toes up, noticing any tingling, tightness, and differences in temperature.

3. Focus on the backs of your heels, legs, seat, the part of your upper back thats touching the ground, your upper shoulders, the backs of your arms, hands, and the back of your head.

4. Reverse the scan back down, and then repeat the process focusing on the front side of your body. Dont rush it, or force yourself to feel anything. Just be there with your body.

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Acosta recommends this targeted meditation for moments who your mind is flat out too busy for a simple breathing break. I think that for people who want to have meditation with a purpose, its a really loving, self-affirming way to enter meditation, she explains.

How to do it:

1. Assume any comfortable position in a quiet place for 10 to 15 minutes.Close your eyes, relax your shoulders, and imagine you are softening the areas around your heart.

2. There are four traditional phrases you can begin saying to yourself: May I be filled with love, may I be safe from harm, may I be well, and may I be happy and free. Breathe in and out as you repeat these phrases and hold an image of yourself in your mind, as if you are saying these words directly to yourself.

3. You will begin to feel a sense of ease as your body lets go. Its also totally normal for this practice to feel awkward or to stir up irritating or upsetting feelingsbut thats okay. The important thing is to be patient and kind to yourself, byacknowledgingyour feelings and moving on.

4. Once youre comfortable with the self-love affirmation (which can take several sessionsdont push it!),you can extend the meditation to others, filling intheir name in eachmantra.

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New clinical guidelines on integrative, mind-body therapies for patients with breast cancer finds that meditation has the best evidence supporting its use and is recommended for reducing anxiety, treating symptoms of depression, and improving quality of life.

The investigators evaluated more than 80 different therapies and developed grades of evidence to determine which integrative treatments are most effective and safe for such patients.

Interdisciplinary experts from Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center; the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston; University of Michigan; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and other institutions in the U.S. and Canada collaborated to update the guidelines from the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO).

This systematic review adds to the growing literature on integrative therapies for patients with breast cancer and other cancer populations. The latest results are published online and in print inCA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a publication of the American Cancer Society.

The new guidelines include the following recommendations:

Studies show that up to 80 percent of people with a history of cancer use one or more complementary and integrative therapies, but until recently, evidence supporting the use of many of these therapies had been limited, said Heather Greenlee, N.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the Mailman school and past president of SIO.

Our goal is to provide clinicians and patients with practical information and tools to make informed decisions on whether and how to use a specific integrative therapy for a specific clinical application during and after breast cancer treatment, Greenlee said.

In their systematic evaluation of peer-reviewed randomized clinical trials, the researchers assigned letter grades to therapies based on the strength of evidence. A letter grade of A indicates that a specific therapy is recommended for a particular clinical indication, and there is high certainty of substantial benefit for the patient.

Meditation had the strongest evidence supporting its use.Music therapy, yoga, and massage received a B grade for symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as for providing benefits to breast cancer patients.

Yoga received a B grade for improving quality of life based on two recent trials. Yoga and hypnosis received a C for fatigue.

The routine use of yoga, meditation, relaxation techniques, and passive music therapy to address common mental health concerns among patients with breast cancer is supported by high levels of evidence, said Debu Tripathy, M.D., chair of breast oncology at MD Anderson and also a past president of SIO.

Given the indication of benefit coupled with the relatively low level of risk, these therapies can be offered as a routine part of patient care, especially when symptoms are not well controlled.

Acupressure and acupuncture received a B grade as an addition to drugs used for reducing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. In general, there was a lack of strong evidence supporting the use of ingested dietary supplements and botanical natural products as part of supportive cancer care and to manage treatment-related side effects.

Clinicians and patients need to be cautious about using therapies that received a grade of C or D and fully understand the potential risks of not using a conventional therapy that may effectively treat cancer or help manage side effects associated with cancer treatment, warned Lynda Balneaves, R.N., Ph.D., associate professor at theRady Faculty of Health Sciences in Winnipeg, Canada, and president-elect of SIO.

Patients are using many forms of integrative therapies with little or no supporting evidence and that remain understudied, noted Greenlee.This paper serves as a call for further research to support patients and health care providers in making more informed decisions that achieve meaningful clinical results and avoid harm.

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Famous Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the propagator of Tergar meditation, says scientists have discovered the power of meditation to alter mental states and increase happiness levels. In an interview, he said the reason why everyone is not equally happy is because each person has a different baseline happiness. This baseline was thought to be unchangeable for a very long time. However, he says science has proved the ability of meditation to change this baseline so people can experience happiness more easily and overcome negative emotions.

He gave the example of winning the lottery. According to the meditation master, a person who wins the lottery may be happy for some time, but there is a limit for this happiness. The same is true, he says, for every other matter as well. He insists meditation can change these aspects for the better, helping people experience happiness at a deeper level and for longer periods of time.

The monk drew more parallels between Buddhism and science, saying the two are not very mutually exclusive. He said both are on a quest to discover things. The only difference is while science does not know how to use its discovered knowledge effectively, Buddhism does. He also added Buddhists have always been saying the same things science says today, like the impermanence of everything.

Mingyur Rinpoche is one of Buddhisms most popular and beloved teachers of meditation. He says that he was always drawn to a life of meditation and contemplation, which eventually led him to lead a life of retreat and silent seclusion. He suffered from a severe anxiety disorder at a tender age of 8 and was cured of it by Tergar meditation. Born in 1975 in the Himalayas between Nepal and Tibet, Rinpoche was only 17 years old when he was invited to be a teacher of meditation at the monastery where he was residing. It is very rare for someone so young to be offered such a prestigious position.

Today, Rinpoche has meditation centers all over the world across five continents. Rinpoche has always had an interest in Western Science and Psychology, in which he even holds a degree.

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New Delhi: Previous studies have effectively shown meditation to be healing and relaxing for the body as well as the mind.

A new study has now suggested that, for women, mindfulness meditation can help overcome emotional distress and negativity and uplift their mood.

Mindfulness meditation can be defined in many ways and can be used for a variety of different therapies.

The study was carried out by a team of researchers from Brown University in the US, by measuring changes in affect, mindfulness and self-compassion among 41 male and 36 female students.

They observed the students over the course of a full, 12- week academic class on mindfulness traditions.

Students filled out questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the class. Over that time the average student had engaged in more than 41 hours of meditation in class and outside.

As a group, the 77 students did not leave the class showing a significant difference in negative affect.

Researchers found that women showed a significant 11.6 percent decline on the survey's standardised score (which is a positive psychological outcome), men showed a non- significant 3.7 percent increase in their scores.

They found that alongside those changes in affect, each gender showed progress in skills taught as part of meditation, researchers said.

The findings show that the classes were effective in teaching the techniques, though women made greater gains than men on four of five areas of mindfulness.

Researchers also found that in women several of the gains they made in specific skills correlated with improvements in negative affect.

"Improved affect in women was related to improved mindfulness and self-compassion skills, which involved specific subscales for approaching experience and emotions with non-reactivity, being less self-critical and more kind with themselves, and over-identifying less with emotions," researchers said.

Among men, only one of the specific skills was associated with better affect.

"To the extent that affect improved, changes were correlated with an improved dimension of mindfulness involving the ability to identify, describe and differentiate one's emotions," researchers said.

"The gender gap in mental health has been inadequately targeted and often only within the standard medical arsenal of pharmacological treatment," said Rahil Rojiani of Brown University.

The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

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Town hall to focus on new health care bill

The Lompoc Valley Democratic Club will sponsor a town hall meeting on health care at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the Lompoc Public Librarys Grossman Gallery, 501 E. North Ave.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be a public information and discussion session about new California Senate Bill 562, the Healthy California Act. If passed, California would have a single-payer health care system.

Guest speakers will include Dr. Bill Skeen, the executive director of California Physicians Alliance, and Peter Conn, a retired social worker who has worked with Health Care for All California since 2000.

The Mahakankala Buddhist Center will offer a series of meditation classes at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays from April 27 through May 25 at the Yoga Center in Plaza de Oro, 701 E. North Ave., Suite F (upstairs, far right).

These drop-in classes, which are open to everyone, are intended to help students understand how the state of our mind affects health and well-being and how to use meditation to improve ones experience of contentment and peace. The classes are for beginners and those with meditation experience. There is a suggested donation of $10.

Flower Festival Queen Candidate Gabrielle Casarez is putting on a Tamale Fundraiser that will go toward her queen campaign.

Casarez, whose candidacy is being sponsored by the Lompoc Employee Development Association, is taking orders through Thursday, April 27. The orders will be available for pick up between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at 832 North D St. The cost is $18 per dozen.

To place an order and/or to arrange for special deliveries, contact Gabriella Casarez at 757-0231.

The ladies of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 211 will host a spaghetti dinner fundraiser at 5 p.m. Friday, April 28, at 636 North H St.

The dinner, which is open to everyone, will include spaghetti, green salad, garlic bread and dessert. Meals will be $8.

The Lompoc Valley Iris Society will host its annual show of tall-bearded iris from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 29, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in the Grossman Gallery at the Lompoc Public Library, 501 East North Ave.

There is no admission charge for the show, which will include hundreds of blossoms of at least 100 officially named varieties on display. There will also be free door-prizes of growing iris plants given away every half-hour, and potted, growing irises for sale. Attendees are encouraged to bring cameras for photographs.

For more information, contact Lompoc Valley Iris Society President Ben Schleuning at 733-4081.

The church of Iglesia De Jesucristo Palabra Miel will hold a car wash fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at 806 E. Ocean Ave.

The church is asking for a $10 donation for every car. Members of the church will also be offering homemade Salvadoran pupusas mixed, pork rind, and cheese for a donation of $2 each or $24 per dozen.

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