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Introduction
Meditation is the art of Being with your True inner self......
You cannot do meditation....it has to
happen naturally!
Sitting at one place, not moving, chanting, focusing, prayers, deity worship,
singing hymns, are but some of the tools employed by the different schools of
meditation to focus your mind away from the outside world and bring it closer
to yourself.....do not get attached to the tools....continue towards your goal.
Benifits of Meditation
Conditions In Which Meditation Has Been shown to be beneficial:
Anxiety (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1992; Miller et al., 1995)
Asthma (Wilson, Hansberger, Chin, & Novey, 1975)
Carotid atherosclerosis (Castillo-Richmond et al., 2000)
Cancer (Carlson et al, 2004; Speca et al, 2000 )
Chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1982; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth &
Burney, 1985)
Coronary artery disease (Zamarra, Schneider, Bessaghini, Robinson, &
Salerno, 1996)
Coronary care units (Guzzetta, 1989)
Depression (Teasdale et al, 2000)
Diagnostic procedures (Frenn, Fehring, & Kartes, 1986)
Drug abuse (Shafii, 1973)
Fibromyalgia (Astin et al, 2003)
Headache (Benson, Klemchuk, & Graham, 1974)
HIV/AIDS (Robinson et al, 2003)
Hypertension (Schneider et al., 1996)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Keefer et al, 2002)
Organ Transplantation (Kreitzer et al, 2004)
Psoriasis (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1998)
Psychotherapy (Bogart, 1991)
Latest article
Recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the
parts of the brain's cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention
and memory. Sara Lazar, a research scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital,
presented preliminary results last November that showed that the gray matter of
20 men and women who meditated for just 40 minutes a day was thicker than that
of people who did not. Unlike in previous studies focusing on Buddhist monks,
the subjects were Boston-area workers practicing a Western-style of meditation
called mindfulness or insight meditation. "We showed for the first time that
you don't have to do it all day for similar results," says Lazar. What's more,
her research suggests that meditation may slow the natural thinning of that
section of the cortex that occurs with age.
The forms of meditation Lazar and other scientists are studying involve
focusing on an image or sound or on one's breathing.
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