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Meditation Improves The Immune System, Research Shows
There have always been plenty of natural methods to keeps us healthy but only recently (thanks to sites like our own) have researchers been proving the benefits of these methods in their research. If you want to improve your health and improve your immune system try meditation.
~Health Freedoms
The practice – an essential part of Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions – has entered the mainstream as people try to find ways to combat stress and improve their quality of life.
Now new research suggests that mindfulness meditation can have benefits for health and performance, including improved immune function, reduced blood pressure and enhanced cognitive function.
The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, draws on existing scientific literature to attempt to explain the positive effects.
The goal of this work, according to author Britta Hazel, of Justus Liebig University and Harvard Medical School, is to “unveil the conceptual and mechanistic complexity of mindfulness, providing the big picture by arranging many findings like the pieces of a mosaic.”
The authors specifically identify four key components of “mindfulness” – the state of meditation – that may account for its effects: attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and sense of self. Together, these help us deal with the effects of stress.
She said: “Understanding the relationships between these components, and the brain mechanisms that underlie them, will allow clinicians to better tailor mindfulness interventions for their patients.”
Dr Hazel said: “We hope that further research on this topic will enable a much broader spectrum of individuals to utilise mindfulness meditation as a versatile tool to facilitate change both in psychotherapy and in everyday life.”
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“Mindfullness” is just one form of meditation. There are many, and they don’t all produce the same benefits, or the same amount of benefits. And beware of those who use the science done on one type of meditation to “prove” the benefits of another type. It’s more common than you might think.
By far the most extensively researched and broadly beneficial meditation is Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Over 600 studies. Research agencies of the US Government have spent over $20 million researching TM and have come to regard it as the “Gold Standard” of meditation. Research even has analyzed the brainwaves of TM practice compared with those of other forms of meditation, and the differences in effects and results are interesting:
http://www.tm.org/research-on-meditation
Here in Hollywood, FL. we have lots of gorgeous sunrises on the beach,
but before then when it’s still dark, I do my alchemy healing meditations. When I go out, there might be a few students waiting. Not everyone needs to do the same meditation. We need to find the right one, like we search for the right outfit for a special event. And then practice doing it. Every day.