Meditation
Some in the West are skeptical about meditation, but scientific studies have proven that it promotes relaxation and reduces stress and, consequently, improve the overall condition of the body. Hundreds of years of such eastern religion as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Islam, have used meditation as a path to enlightenment. Today, a great interest in meditation in the West only in small measure due to its spiritual value. Most people interested in it as a way to improve mental and physical health, a means to relieve nervous tension. Minor differences are determined by religion, meditation techniques, from which they were taken.
Common is that they all contribute to deep relaxation, improve overall health and restore the mind. Practitioners of meditation claim that it gives them a new impetus to life, fills with energy, improves the ability to concentration, resulting in harmony with the environment. Such people achieve high performance in sport and the arts. In some Western countries, meditation is practiced in medical schools. It gives a good therapeutic effect in cancer patients during the last stage and patients drug rehabilitation centers. Clinical studies have shown that it is valuable not only a positive influence on the psyche, while Meditation in the body physiological changes occur. Meditation technique Meditation – simple and natural process.
Select a suitable place, Sit on a chair with a straight back, providing support for spine. Some techniques focus on breathing, feel the sighs of 1 to 10, repeating it several times. The body is supported in one position and is relaxed. Chosen object of meditation. They can be a word sentence or sound, such as the ticking clock. Ideally, meditation should be half closed eyes. If you select a visual object, it is necessary to omit a few minutes and look to focus on its image. Attention focused on the chosen object, thought, distracting from his contemplation, it should be discarded. It is recommended to meditate, while maintaining stiffness, twice a day, starting with a few minutes and gradually increasing session duration to 20 minutes. Source: Daryl Katz. The purpose of meditation – to free the mind from the flow of thoughts and dwell in peace, while maintaining the ability to move into an active state. Over time, the practice makes it easy to reach such a state. Many people prefer copper formatted in groups under the guidance of the wizard. Others like dynamic meditation, practitioners may also be a favorite place of meditation. Physical changes in the clinical studies in meditation in the body and brain of the subjects showed significant changes. During tests of brain activity registered by the waves, with a special smooth rhythm, different from those as during sleep and while awake. If there is a systematic practice of orderly waves from different parts of the brain occur and after a session of meditation. The degree of relaxation is determined by the fall in metabolism, which slows down by half compared with deep sleep. There was also a decrease in the activity of the autonomic nervous system, which helps relieve stress. The respiratory rate is significantly reduced, but the level of contained in the blood oxygen falls, indicating a reduction in consumption by cells. It can be argued that these positive changes are fixed by long practice of meditation. Classes in meditation should be consistent with the requirements of a physician.
