Can Meditation Improve My Health and Overall Wellbeing?
Meditation is, without doubt, an important key to health. Health,
according to the World Health Organization, is not necessarily the absence of
disease but the total state of well being in mental, social and psychological
health besides physical well being. Meditation ensures that every aspect of
your health is boosted and improved.
During meditation, specific breathing patterns are observed. These
breathing patterns work in the body by lowering the rate at which the heart
beats, and thus ensuring that blood pressure is lowered to normal levels. When
blood pressure is lowered, levels of stress are lowered and the production of
healthy cells is boosted. This way, the level of immunity in the body is raised.
Also, the hormones released into the blood stream and to the tissues are less
harmful and very advantageous.
Many people do not really understand exactly how meditation brings
about such desirable health effects, but the explanation is very simple.
Meditation ensures that you place your focus on a specific thing. For instance,
if you do meditation while concentrating on your back, you automatically cause
increased flow of blood, nutrients and oxygen to that specific part, thus
ensuring that the part is nourished and made better in terms of health.
Meditation also works to reduce tension and cramps, and this ensures
that pain throughout the body is alleviated. Also, levels of anxiety, stress
and depression are lowered during meditation. Apart from meditation having
effects on the betterment of our health, it also works as a recovery agent. If
you have undergone any form of trauma or medical treatment like a surgery,
meditation will help you recover faster than any other prescription will do.
Allergies have also been seen to go down on meditation, because of the
increased immunity levels. Those who are addicts of drugs and the abuse of any
substance are also advised to do good meditation. It works simply by helping
the addicts to refocus their attention on to something more helpful and to
focus on the possibility that they can be free from their addictions.
Meditation also helps to improve the power of concentration and
learning. Also, one becomes more alert and gets a higher reasoning and creativity
power. It also helps one to become less irritable and more in control of his or
her feelings, emotions and moods. A person who has mastered the art of
mediation also becomes more energetic and keen.
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