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Meditation and its
benefits
Stress
Control Heart
Disease and High Blood
Pressure
Meditation is the major
component of
Ornish therapy, a
treatment scientifically
proven
to reverse heart
disease.
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Physical And Mental
Benefits Of Meditation
Most of the people who
get on meditation do so
because of its
beneficial effects on
stress. Stress refers to
any or all the various
pressures experienced in
life. These can come
from family, work,
environment, illness,
bullying, loneliness to
mention a few, and fuel
such conditions as
anxiety, hypertension,
and heart disease.
Meditation helps to
handle stressful
situations, rather
then being handled by
them.
Research has shown that
hormones and other
biochemical compounds in
the blood indicative of
stress tend to decrease
during Meditation
practice. These changes
also stabilize over
time, so that a person
is actually less
stressed bio
chemically during daily
activity.
The reduction of stress
influences the nervous
system directly and the
benefits are a positive
reduction of anxiety and
tension. hundreds of
studies have confirmed
this.
Pain Management
Chronic pain can
systematically erode the
quality of life.
Although great
improvements are being
made in traditional
medicine to treat
recurring pain,
treatment is not always
as simple as prescribing
some medication.
For example when faced
with an illness, there
can be anxiety which by
its very nature creates
more negative emotions
and also fear. This can
be a vicious cycle,
people under stress
experience pain more,
which can result in
increased stress and so
on. Meditation can help
and break the circle.
Meditative techniques
are also a very helpful
element, easing
arthritis. Meditation
may not take the pain away
but it does help to cope
better.
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Infertility
Infertility can make
couples depressed,
anxious and angry.
Relaxation responses
from Meditation help
such stressed out
couples, ,as they begin
to experience less
distress and are more
likely to be successful.
Illness
Irritable Bowel
Syndrome, Ulcers, and
Insomnia
Meditation can also
improve irritable bowel
syndrome, ulcers, and
insomnia, among other
stress-related
conditions. Eighty
percent of the people
who use meditation to
relieve insomnia are
successful.
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Anxiety and Headaches
Meditation can help
prevent or treat
stress-related
complaints such as
anxiety, headaches and
bone, muscle and joint
difficulties. Meditation
also provides an inner
sense of clarity and
calm, and that, in
itself, may help ward
off certain illnesses.
Anxiety
Meditation can help most
people feel less anxious
and more in control. The
awareness that
meditation brings can
also be a source of
personal insight and
self-understanding.
Handling Repressed
Memories
Meditation may lead to a
breakdown of screen
memories so that early
childhood abuse episodes
and other traumas
suddenly flood the mind,
making the patient
temporarily more anxious
until these traumas are
healed. Many so-called
meditation exercises are
actually forms of
imagery and
visualization that are
extraordinarily useful
in healing old traumas,
confronting death
anxieties, finishing
'old business', learning
to forgive, and
enhancing self-esteem.
Depression
Feelings of
helplessness,
hopelessness and
isolation are hallmarks
of depression—the age's
most prevalent mental
health problem.
Meditation increases
self-confidence and
feelings of connection
to others. Many studies
have shown that
depressed people feel
much better after
eliciting the relaxation
response.
Panic Attacks
Sometimes anxiety
becomes paralyzing and
people feel (wrongly)
that they are about to
suffer some horrible
fate. Panic attacks are
often treated with
drugs, but studies show
that if people who are
prone to panic attacks
begin focused,
meditative breathing the
instant they feel the
first signs of an
episode, they are less
likely to have a
full-blown panic attack
Meditation frees persons
from tenacious
preoccupation with the
past and future and
allows them to fully
experience life's
precious moments. Many
men and women tend to
live in a state of
perpetual motion and
expectation that
prevents them from
appreciating the gifts
that each moment gives
us.
Meditation is a process
that returns us to the
present moment of our
lives and allows us to
wake up and reevaluate
the way that we live our
lives.
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