BY KIMBERLY CARSON
Is a regular meditation routine or frequent orgasmic experiences preferable for overall health enhancement? Which provides more relief and stress release? Here are some facts.
Bruce O’Hara and colleagues at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, decided to explore the claims that meditation does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better – and alters the structure of your brain. Using a well-established psychomotor vigilance task, the researchers concluded that meditation improved test performance.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston report that meditating actually increases the thickness of the brain cortex in areas involved in attention and sensory processing. The growth of the cortex is not due to the growth of neurons, but results from wider blood vessels, more supporting structures such as glia and astrocytes, and increased branching and connections.
Major scientific journals such as Science, the American Journal of Physiology, Scientific America, Lancet, the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the International Journal of Neuroscience, the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association, the British Journal of Educational Psychology, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution all published research on the positive benefits of transcendental meditation.
Intelligence growth, increased creativity, broader comprehension, improved perception, greater orderliness, improved academic skills, lower blood pressure, reduced anxiety, improved health, reversal of aging, change in breathing, deep rest, increased productivity, decreased drug abuse, improved relations, self-actualization, increased energy, greater appreciation of others, increased self-esteem, decreased crime, reduced conflict, and improved quality of life are all positively impacted by a regular meditation practice of approximately twenty minutes a day.
All this just from being quiet? Read more…
Source: Examiner/Medford
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