Just as daily exercise conditions your body, meditation does the same to your brain. After a few weeks of regular practice, you'll notice that your concentration, clarity and alertness have improved. Brain scans of meditators show that they produce more gamma brain waves, a high-premium type of electrical impulse that's used in focus, memory and making connections between different parts of the brain.
Through a daily mediation practice, you slowly train yourself to replace the automatic "fight or flight" response with "the relaxation response". Instead of a surge of adrenaline and a rapidly beating heartbeat, your sympathetic nervous system remains quiet. Blood tests have shown that long-time meditators actually have less of the stress hormone cortisol at the end of the day.
Research is proving that you can relax your way out of the blues. Two new studies have shown that people who meditated for 20 minutes twice a day experienced a 50 percent reduction in depressive symptoms. Meditation lifts your spirits in two ways, It triggers changes in the brain that lead to a release of feel-good chemicals, and it helps disrupt negative thinking patterns that can keep you stuck in a bad mood.
People who suffer from psoriasis, a condition that causes itchy, scaly skin, listened to meditation tapes while they received ultraviolet light treatments. The results: They healed four times as fast as non-meditators. Why? Experts believe that meditation triggered the body's ability to repair itself.
As well as all of the above advantages, seasoned yogis, yoginis and meditators are aware that there are alot more benefits to the practice of meditation than the above. These benefits are widely accepted as good holistic by products that naturally accompany the practice of mantra meditation. This pursuit has been shown in many instances to have very deep signifigance spiritually. This practice can be life-changing. If you would like to know more about this topic you are most welcome to contact us. Leave a comment and include your details so that we can get back to you as soon as possible.
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