Meditation
In this ever growing and constantly changing lifestyle of ours, we experience a lot of people struggling to keep up to their hectic life and see them constantly breaking their stress in the form of anger, sadness, depression and many other situations that prolongs our stress rather than reducing them. If we look back into the juncture of growing, children are far better at handling stress since they don’t build up stress as the adults in our community do. Children often express their feelings and constantly drive away all sorts of unwanted and toxic obstructions blocking happiness. So what can we adults do to avoid these stressful situations that are just blocking the happiness and peace that we are seeking? When we try to answer this question, one possible and effective answer we get is “Meditation”. So, What is this “Meditaion” ? Is this really a game changer? Let me describe some facts below about it that may convince you to take meditation seriously as an option to avert the stress and improve our mental concentration at the same time.
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Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School who researched about meditation and its advantages to the human body in around 1960. He determined that meditation could be used successfully in treating physiological problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease and migraine headaches, as well as autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and arthritis. He found that his test subjects heartbeats and breathing had slowed, their blood lactate levels decreased, and their brains had increased in alpha activity, which is a sign of relaxation. Dr. Benson also found that meditation was helpful in stopping or slowing obsessive thinking, anxiety, depression, and
In this ever growing and constantly changing lifestyle of ours, we experience a lot of people struggling to keep up to their hectic life and see them constantly breaking their stress in the form of anger, sadness, depression and many other situations that prolongs our stress rather than reducing them. If we look back into the juncture of growing, children are far better at handling stress since they don’t build up stress as the adults in our community do. Children often express their feelings and constantly drive away all sorts of unwanted and toxic obstructions blocking happiness. So what can we adults do to avoid these stressful situations that are just blocking the happiness and peace that we are seeking? When we try to answer this question, one possible and effective answer we get is “Meditation”. So, What is this “Meditaion” ? Is this really a game changer? Let me describe some facts below about it that may convince you to take meditation seriously as an option to avert the stress and improve our mental concentration at the same time.
What will happen when I meditate? …show more content…
Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School who researched about meditation and its advantages to the human body in around 1960. He determined that meditation could be used successfully in treating physiological problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease and migraine headaches, as well as autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and arthritis. He found that his test subjects heartbeats and breathing had slowed, their blood lactate levels decreased, and their brains had increased in alpha activity, which is a sign of relaxation. Dr. Benson also found that meditation was helpful in stopping or slowing obsessive thinking, anxiety, depression, and