From Dr. Robert Young:
British study that pitted traditional Buddhist meditation against acidic anti-depressant drugs for symptoms of depression found that meditation prevented more relapses. The "Telegraph" reported that fifteen months after an eight-week trial, only 47 percent of people using meditation experienced a relapse compared with 60 percent of those taking highly acidic anti-depressants.
"Anti-depressants are widely used by people who suffer from depression and that's because they tend to work," said Professor Willem Kuyken of the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter. "But while they're very effective in helping reduce the symptoms of depression, when people come off them they are particularly vulnerable to relapse."
"The meditative alkalizing technique known as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), works differently. It helps people learn to focus on the present (which has alkalizing effects) instead of dwelling on the past (which has acidic effect) or thinking of the future, which is also acidic," states Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego, California. "It teaches people skills for life," said Kuyken.
"What we have shown is that when people work at it, these skills for life help keep people well," said Kuyken.
"I have found that when you incorporate an alkaline diet of green foods and green drinks, daily alkalizing exercise, daily alkalizing breathing, daily meditation and/or prayer, and alkalizing nutritional support, you start feeling better. And, when you start feeling better you start thinking better to the point you forget you are depressed. This can all happen within just a few weeks," states Dr. Young.
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