The longer an individual practices meditation,
the greater the likelihood that his or her goals and efforts will
shift toward personal and spiritual growth. Many individuals who initially
learn meditation for its self-regulatory aspects find that as their
practice deepens they are drawn more and more into the realm of the
"spiritual."
Meditation can help most people feel less anxious
and more in control. The awareness that meditation brings can also
be a source of personal insight and self-understanding.
By simple definition, meditation is engagement in contemplation,
especially of a spiritual or devotional nature. To elaborate further,
meditation is an attempt to concentrate mind on a single form or
an idea or an aspect of divinity at the exclusion of all other forms,
thoughts, and ideas. The mind is focused inwards, and this effort
of concentration acts as a stimulus to gain access to knowledge
of 'object of meditation'. The aspirant makes an attempt to minimize
perceptions through senses - inputs through special senses like
touch, sight, hearing, etc. - by detaching mind from sense organs
in the brain. This helps in controlling restlessness of mind, in
favor of inner contemplation. The mind, as if, is made still. Meditation
may be, therefore, taken as a 'passive' activity! But is it really
so?
Tremendous changes observed in the human brain and nervous system
during mediation run contrary to this belief of 'passivity' attached
to meditation. Unprecedented progress and research in neurobiology,
investigative neurology, and study of neurotransmitters in the last
two decades has given a great fillip to the study of neuro-physiology
of Meditation and Yoga. Altered State of Consciousness can be brought
about by hypnosis, drugs (e. g. LSD), sleep, etc., but here we are
trying to study a state specific science of altered consciousness
brought about by meditation alone.
Some of the proven health conditions that are benefited
by meditation are as follows;
++ Drug Addiction
++ Prolonging Life Expectancy
++ Stress Control
++ Pain Management
++ Cancer and Other Chronic Illness
++ Heart disease.
++ High blood pressure.
++ Infertility
++ Psoriasis
++ Respiratory crises
++ Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Tension Headaches
++ Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcers, and Insomnia
++ Fibromyalgia
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