Meditation helps to balance the body's systems

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Not only is meditation simple, easy, and enjoyable, but because it works to reset and rebalance every system in the body, and is an effective healing tool. From improving relationships, to detoxing or dealing with a chronic illness. Regular meditation can help us all live healthier and happier lives. Read more articles below to understand more about meditation.

1. The health benefits that meditation can bring

There are many reasons to practice meditation. The experience of meditation experts drawn from studies shows that meditation not only lowers blood pressure, but can also boost our immune systems - although the mechanism that leads to these effects is unknown. really clear - while at the same time improving one's ability to concentrate. Meditators can choose from a wide variety of practices, both religious and secular. What they all have in common, says Professor Charles L. Raison, clinical director of the Mind-Body Program at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is that they increase focus and prevent distorted thoughts about the outside world. and often the stillness of the body. Raison was involved in a study that showed that meditation improves both physical and emotional responses to stress. In the study, people who practiced meditation regularly for six weeks showed that their immune systems worked better and negative emotions appeared less often when they were in stressful situations.
Stress reduction may be the key to the beneficial effects of meditation on health. “We know stress is a contributing factor to current chronic conditions,” Raison points out. Many studies have shown improvements in fibromyalgia and even psoriasis in patients who diligently engage in meditative practices. "It's hard to think of an illness where mood and stress aren't healthy," says Raison.
Science has yet to discover what happens when the brain is in a meditative state and the immune system. But a University of Wisconsin study found that electrical brain activity increased in regions of the left frontal lobe, an area that tends to be more active in optimists, after eight weeks of meditation.

2. How does meditation help balance the body's systems?

Most Americans don't want to sit still for too long. But meditation has attracted millions of people to change this habit to help them relieve chronic pain, anxiety, stress, improve heart health, boost mood and immunity, and at the same time. Solve problems during pregnancy.
Cardiologist Herbert Benson, known for three decades of research on the health effects of meditation, says any condition caused or made worse by stress can be alleviated. through meditation. He is the founder of the Mind/Body Institute at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. “The relaxation response (from meditation) helps lower metabolism, lowers blood pressure, and improves heart rate, breathing, and brain waves,” says Benson. Tension and pressure are transmitted from the muscles as the body receives the quiet message to relax.
There is a lot of scientific evidence to show how meditation balances the body's systems. In people who were meditating, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed increased activity in areas that control metabolism and heart rate. Other studies of Buddhist monks have shown that meditation produces lasting changes in brain activity in areas involved in attention, working memory, learning, and cognition. awareness. The soothing power of repetition is at the heart of meditation. Meditation focuses on controlling the breath, ignoring thoughts, and repeating a word or phrase to induce a biological response of relaxation.
Dr Chapman, a psychologist at the Center for Pain Medicine at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, tells WebMD: “Meditation is not difficult to learn. You don't have to meet an expert in the field for 20 sessions to learn it. But like any other exercise, it's a skill that you need to practice. Over time, people develop the ability to create these very relaxed, meditative states very quickly. As they meditated several times a day, they became more relaxed throughout the day. "

Meditation helps to balance several systems of the body such as:
Heart Health: Countless studies have looked at meditation and heart health. According to government-funded studies conducted at Maharishi Vedic College of Medicine in Fairfield, Iowa, regular meditation practice has been shown to significantly improve symptoms of high blood pressure during long time. Among those studies, one found a significant reduction in blood pressure and heart rate in black adults. In addition, a study in the American Journal of Hypertension found that teenagers who meditated for 15 minutes twice a day for four months significantly reduced their blood pressure readings. Boosts immunity: Meditation also helps us to ward off many diseases and infections. In a study examining immune function, flu shots were given to volunteers who had meditated for 8 weeks and those who did not. According to the study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, blood tests performed afterwards showed that the group that meditated had higher levels of antibodies against the flu virus than the group that did not meditate. Improve women's health: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), infertility problems and even breastfeeding can be improved when women meditate regularly. In one study, PMS symptoms were reduced by 58% when women meditated. Another study found that hot flashes common during menopause were also less intense in women who regularly meditated. Women struggling with infertility experienced much less anxiety, depression and fatigue after a 10-week meditation program (along with exercise and nutritional changes); 34% became pregnant within six months. Additionally, new mothers who meditate on images of milk flowing from their breasts can double their baby's milk production. Meditation changes the brain for good. According to a recent study, monks who practice Buddhist meditation have been shown to have significantly higher levels of brain activity, known as gamma-wave activity, in areas related to learning and leveling. happiness compared to those who do not practice meditation. Gamma waves are involved in mental processes including attention, memory, learning, and conscious perception. The monks also showed higher activity in areas related to positive emotions, like happiness.

How do you know if meditation is "working" or not - if your body is actually getting those relaxation responses? If you feel warm, comfortable and calm when you meditate, that means you're on the right track, says Chapman. If you can't achieve these, take a class to get instructions on how to meditate properly. Sometimes it helps to have someone guide you, letting you know when you're making progress."
Benson advises if meditation doesn't seem to be working, switch to another relaxation method. Any practice that will be able to evoke a relaxation response is beneficial, be it meditation, yoga, breathing, prayer or other exercises. There is no reason to believe that one will be better than the other. The important thing is to make them a daily habit in your life.”
Known as one of the oldest methods, meditation is now becoming a popular technique to reduce stress, Not only relieves stress, meditation also has certain effects on the balance of body systems such as brain, circulatory system, respiratory system, system Immune system... and many other systems in the body.Meditation – combined with a healthy diet and exercise has been and is the key to bringing everyone a happy and healthy life.

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Reference source: webmd.com