Meditation: A devotional exercise of or leading to contemplation.
Stress: A mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and depression.
Mindfulness Meditation: Mindfulness is an outgrowth of a Buddhist tradition called vipassana, which focuses on the present moment. The mediator focuses his or her attention alertly but none judgmentally on all processes passing through the mind.
Concentration Meditation: The mediator focuses his or her attention on an internal or external object, while minimizing distractions and brings the wandering mind back to attention on the chosen object.
Transcendental Meditation: A technique of meditation derived from Hindu traditions that promote deep relaxation through the use of a mantra.
Vipassana: A type of Buddhist meditation that aims to develop insight into the nature of phenomena through focused attention.
Buddha Gautama: Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism. He began preaching after achieving supreme enlightenment at the age of 35.
Buddhism: The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right, conduct, wisdom, and meditation releases one from desire, suffering and rebirth.
Maharashi Mahesh Yogi: Indian spiritual teacher
Self-Concept: The mental image or perception that one has of oneself.
Physiology: The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts.
Hormones: A substance, usually a peptide or a steroid, produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity, such as growth or metabolism.
Anxiety: A cause of uneasiness and apprehension
Self-Actualization: To develop or achieve one’s full potential
Relaxation: Refreshment of body or mind
Addiction: Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit forming substance.