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Benefits of MeditationAn article published in the American Heart Association journal, “Stroke”, recently reported that meditation can reduce cholesterol buildup and the associated risk of heart attack and stroke. Another study of the elderly found that the benefits of meditation actually added years to their lives. The National Institute of Health reports that the benefits of meditation reduces chronic pain, anxiety, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and cortisol (sometimes referred to as the stress hormone) production. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study discovered meditation boosts brain function and the immune system. A recent issue of the American Journal of Hypertension features the results of a study showing a significant lowering of blood pressure in a group of meditators compared to a control group of people who didn’t meditate. The study also reported a 23% decrease in usage of anti-hypertensive drugs between the group of meditators and the other group. A Harvard study also concluded that regular meditation can reduce pain, lower blood pressure, and cut production of the stress hormone, cortisol. The most recent study by the American Heart Association shows heart and artery health improved 69% in test groups practicing meditation. And this is just the beginning. Practically every time you turn around there’s another study supporting fantastic health and wellness benefits of meditation. Modern brain research indicates that long-term meditation does in fact balance the brain, creating a synchrony between the two hemispheres. Many researchers have studied this phenomenon over the last twenty years. One such researcher, Dr. Charles Stroebel, Ph.D., M.D., director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Medicine, performed a series of experiments on meditators during the 1970s. He discovered that electrical brain wave patterns of meditators changed, in periods of deep meditation, to a single, coherent pattern, indicating that both sides of the brain—ordinarily out of phase—were working together in a balanced, synchronous manner. While in the vast majority of people one hemisphere or the other is alternately dominant over the other, depending upon the task being performed, advanced meditators seemed to develop the ability to use their whole brain and to live in a more balanced state characterized by brain synchronization and whole brain functioning. This and other research has demonstrated that this balancing, or synchronization, of the hemispheres of the brain happens in all forms of meditation. The degree of hemispheric synchronization can be very precisely determined by measuring the meditator’s brain wave patterns with an electroencephalograph (EEG) machine. When the brain is very lateralized (one hemisphere being very dominant over the other), the brain waves are in what is called the beta range. If the two sides of the brain could somehow learn to operate in a more holistic manner, interact more, and function as one then perhaps our experience of reality would be different. My personal belief is that it is possible for anyone to live a life of happiness, inner peace, good health and outward success, no matter what their present or past circumstances. So you have several choices: 1. Don’t meditate, continue doing what you are doing and get the results in your life you have always got. 2. Take the journey to learn how to meditate and improve your life and well-being. Traditional meditation can take years to master deep levels of meditation. I guess that why its called a meditation practice. 3. Try Holosync. This advanced scientific technology can induce deep states of meditation at the push of a button. Get your free demo CD. If you have any interest at all in increased health and vigor, increased longevity, lower blood pressure, peace of mind: practice and embrace the benefits of meditation. You and your body will benefit from the tremendous impact this practice can have on your life.
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