By Releasing Tension and Stress, Streamline Meditation Allows us to Feel more relaxed within ourselves, providing the foundation for more harmonious, fulfilling relationships.

Streamline Meditation helps us to feel more relaxed and confident within ourselves. When we have less anxiety, frustration and anger within us, then we're more able to appreciate others and and enjoy being with them more.

Reducing stress is the key to becoming more understanding, more tolerant and enjoying more harmony and happiness in our relationships.

Before we can expect better relationships, it's important that we feel good about ourselves and that we radiate an air of calm, confidence and happiness to others.

These qualities are a natural result of refining mental activity down to the source of thought during meditation. By diving into that infinite reserve of unbounded awareness, all our relationships improve spontaineously.

• Meditation can help:
  
  • Reduce anger and frustration
    
  • Improve self confidence
    
  • Increase positive outlook
    
  • Improve behaviour
    
  • Increase tolerance of others
    

• Meditation Improves Self-Concept
  • One month after beginning meditation, subjects experienced an improved self-concept in comparison to before learning meditation. Meditation participants developed a more strongly defined self-concept and also came to perceive their "actual self" as significantly closer to their "ideal self." No similar changes were observed for matched controls. (Journal of Psychology, 4: 206-218, 1976)
    
    
• Meditation Decreases Drug Use
  • A statistical meta-analysis of 198 independent treatment outcomes found that meditation produced a significantly larger reduction in tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use than either standard substance abuse treatments (including counselling, pharmacological treatments, relaxation training, and Twelve-Step programs) or prevention programs (such as programs to counteract peer-pressure and promote personal development). This meta-analysis controlled for strength of study design and included both heavy and casual users. Whereas, the effects of conventional programs typically decrease sharply by three months, effects of meditation on total abstinence from tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug ranged from 50% to 89% over a 18 to 22 month period of study. (Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 11: 13-87) (International Journal of the Addictions, 26: 293-325, 1991)
    
    
• Meditation Increases Productivity
  • In this study subjects practicing meditation showed significant improvements at work, compared with members of a control group. Job performance and job satisfaction increased while desire to change jobs decreased. People at every level of the organization benefited from practicing meditation. (Academy of Management Journal, 17: 362-368, 1974)
    
    
• Meditation and The Work Place
  • This study found significant improvements in relations with supervisors and co-workers after an average of eleven months practicing meditation, in comparison to control subjects. While meditators reported that they felt less anxiety about promotion (shown by reduced climb orientation), their fellow employees saw them as moving ahead quickly. People at every level of the organization benefited from practicing meditation. (Academy of Management Journal, 17: 362-368, 1974)
    
    
• Meditation Increases Relaxation
  • This three-month study of managers and employees who regularly practiced meditation in a Fortune 100 manufacturing company (Puritan-Bennett Corporation) and a smaller distribution-sales company in Philadelphia showed that meditation practitioners displayed more relaxed physiological functioning, greater reduction in anxiety and reduced tension on the job, when compared to control subjects with similar job positions in the same companies. (Anxiety, Stress and Coping International Journal, 6: 245-262, 1993)
    
    
• Meditation Leads to Positive Health Habits
  • In two companies that introduced meditation, managers and employees who regularly practiced meditation improved significantly in overall physical health, mental well-being, and vitality when compared to control subjects with similar jobs in the same companies. Meditation practitioners also reported significant reductions in health problems such as headaches and backaches, improved quality of sleep, and a significant reduction in the use of hard liquor and cigarettes, compared to personnel in the control groups. (Anxiety, Stress and Coping International Journal, 6: 245-262, 1993)