| Professional Endorsements
A simple, no expense, meditation-oriented approach to stress reduction which we recommend for all our patients (and ourselves!) is nicely presented at the following website: www.countingbreaths.com. Try it; you'll be glad you did! Peter Horvath, MD, FACOG Endorsement in his web site under 'Exercise and Stress Reduction' The focusing on the
breath technique is appealing in its simplicity, and absence of
restrictive conditions that often hamper the adoption of most techniques
of meditation
I have introduced the technique to some of my
patients with anxiety, panic attacks, hypertension and insomnia.
Everyone who has adopted the
technique has reported it helps them relax. Some patients have reported it
has helped then sleep better, and no longer rely on medications. The most
remarkable effect was on a patient with severe panic attacks, who could
not drive over a bridge without taking an anxiolytic first, is now able to
drive over bridges without relying on
medications!
Padma Sripada MD Internal Medicine www.doctorpadma.com I really enjoyed your classes and experienced for the first time the fact that meditation can be done so easily. It is simple, meaningful and practical. I am regularly following this technique and can tell you for sure, that it has tremendous effect on my health. Sudha Chaturvedi Ph. D. Research Scientist “I have experienced some magical effect of
the “Count your breath exercise”, which I started only recently, say 3-4
months ago. Though I had heard about such a technique many years ago, I
was literally introduced to this by a good friend of mine, Mr. C.S. Rao.
Initially, I was skeptical as anyone would be, but then thought, if I
don’t gain much from it, I am definitely not going to loose anything. So,
I started practicing this technique for a few minutes (10-15 minutes)
without a particular goal in mind. I chose morning hours, immediately
after coming out of the bed. In the initial couple of weeks, which
included few gaps, I felt a very slight change in my attitude. The most
important has been a sharp decline in frequency of getting panic on work
not being completed according to target dates (set by me), which sometimes
can be considered as unrealistic by my colleagues. At this point, I do not
know for sure if this positive change in myself is due to “Counting your
breath exercise”, but must be it , because I haven’t made any other change
in my daily routine recently. I hope to increase the duration of this
exercise in the near future.”
Rajendra Agrawal Ph. D Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, NYS Dept of Health, Albany NY and Associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health of the University at Albany NY. "One of the ways we help children cope with stress at Parker is by practicing the simple mindful breathing taught us by C.S., the grandfather of Veda in 4-5. It is one of his life's missions to spread this easy and effective way to reduce anxiety. The breathing technique is practiced regularly by almost all the children in the school." Meg Taylor Director Robert C. Parker School Wynantskill NY in her blogspot dated Dec 1. 09. Thank you again for participating it the 2009 Diabetes Health Fair. We were so pleased with the enthusiastic response! Enclosed please find your $100 honorarium, a small token of appreciation. We will be certainly be in touch about the next year's symposium!
Kathryn Godley, Diabetes Nurse Clinician. MS, RN, CDE Albany Medical College Dept of
Endocrinology and Metabolism,
AlbanyNY
Thank you for presenting 'counting breaths' at our lunch time. The feedback you received from the participants was overall score of 4.9 out of 5 satisfaction. Sharon L. Wheeler. MS, MT-BC, LCAT, HTCP, Healing Arts manager, Albany Medical Center - June 17, 09
I request other
professionals who have practiced 'Counting Breaths' or helped
their clients practice it, |