World's First Billion Dollar Raffle with an Unshared First Prize of $500,000,000 Launches The world's first billion dollar raffle with an unshared first prize of half a billion dollars (US$500,000,000), a total of 1 billion dollars (US$1,000,000,000) in prize money and a draw date of June 1st, 2008 launched today. - 2007-06-04

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Classical Meditation Is Efficient De-Stressing For Persons Dominated By The Left Hemisphere, Especially, Concludes A Health Technology Assessment By Torben Larsen The action-mechanism of meditation is evidenced as the general biological process of homeostatic balancing of interactive regulatory systems. This applies to persons dominated by the left hemisphere, especially; so, meditation is not recommended to the minority of persons dominated by the right hemisphere. The cognitive style of relative more men than women are dominated by the left hemisphere. A critical review of international medical databases identify good medical trials on meditative in-depth-relaxation by a variety of approaches including Transcendtal Meditation (TM), Acem meditation, Mindfulness Meditation, Qigong Meditation and Autogenic Training. Evidenced outcomes regarding stress comprise comprehensive health indicators as: 1) reduction of blood pressure, 2) reduction of the stress hormone cortisol and anziety as well as 3) better smoking cessation. A query by the internet conducted by the author demonstrates a good user compliance to the medical findings. The mental benefits of meditation are complementary to exercise: while exercise increases endurance meditation increases flexibility. A simple health program balancing exercise and meditation might prevent the majority of diseases in the industrialized countries according to experts in psychosomatic health as Herbert Benson. The comprehensive economic evaluation is that meditation is a cost-efficient private investment due to better quality of life and extra pension years, especially. - 2006-05-22

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