What Meditation Can Do For You
The Stress Response
Meditation can also:
- Help you manage physical pain and
- Help you manage your overall health more intelligently.
By turning the mind deliberately towards sensing the body, meditation can help heal the body and even more curiously, alleviate physical pain. By meditating on the pain we can learn to reduce it more effectively often than through the use of pharmaceutical pain-killers. Deliberately focusing on physical pain and consciously using the mind to relax around the pain helps shift and diminish it. Pain relief is often one reason these days why many medical practitioners and pain specialists will recommend learning meditation as an effective means of controlling and managing it.
Getting in touch with your body and meditating improves your immune system putting mind and body back into balance and allowing your natural resistance to focus on helping your body operate at maximum efficiency. Too much stress puts the body under attack and makes it more vulnerable to picking up viral infections or developing other stress-related complaints such as high blood pressure and heart disease, skin conditions, digestive complaints, migraines, chronic fatigue, infertility and impotence. Many diseases such as arthritis, asthma, allergies and cancer seem particularly related to malfunctioning of the immune system. Muscle injuries can be more quickly healed by using meditation encouraging better blood flow to the damaged tissue.
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