Mindfulness
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while some people do fall asleep when they meditate, Meditation is Maura about returning the body to a state of Alex static balance. Any good meditator can shed his excess tension and return to a more balanced and healthy state within five minutes or so. By definition, meditation relaxes the body to some degree. If not, the person is probably caught in thought and no meditating well at all. In medical language, this means that meditation activates the re lax ation response. It turns on the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system. Then there was the metabolic rate. It returns the body to a state of homos Stasis. When you meditate, the body is back in self repair and growth mode. Herbert Benson from Harvard Medical School has shown that meditation has certain obvious physiological effects. A steep drop in metabolic activity, reduced blood lactate acid levels and muscle tension. Slower breathing drop simpler pressure for those whose pressure was high, a shift from the faster beat of brain waves to the slower Alfa Theatre and delta waves, and subjective perceptions of relaxation and peace. In other words, meditation merit the effect of the relaxation response. He also found the meditation as a conscious activity often achieve these effects faster and better the normal relaxation. Because it is controlled, the process occurs more efficiently. For example, within a few minutes, meditators can often reduce the metabolic rate to a level that normally takes five hours of sleep to attain. As Benson doubts, this means that meditation, though similar to sleep, is significantly different as well. Such studies reinforce what meditators commonly feel that meditation works faster and more efficiently than less structured forms of relaxation. People frequently assert that they find a few minute's meditation is better than now asleep, and that sleep makes him dull. While meditation refreshes the mind all his, Benson says after eliciting the relaxation response, the mind is more receptive to new information. At the very least, we can say that meditation is good for our health because it relaxes the body. This hardly needs proof. You don't need experiments to prove that water is wet. By definition, meditation is a practise that relaxes the body. More convincing than any studies, however, is the personal confirmation that people receive when they meditate. People who were reasonably sensitive to their bodies will notice at least some of the following signs The relaxation response. When they meditate, reduce muscular tension, the shoulders drop. Reduce breath right, indicating a slower metabolic rate. Warm for tingling on the skin as the blood returns to the periphery. More saliva or activity in the digestive system as it comes to life again. More awareness of aches and pains as the energy Is it effective, the stress hormones wears off and, of course, sleepiness. In any meditation group, you will see a few people almost nodding off. At least one out of every four or five meditations you do tends to be a little sleep here than you would like. Meditation usually involves slowing down to the border of sleep and wakefulness, and you're very, very tip over the edge occasionally, if only for a few seconds. This is why I could meditate, is rarely meditate, lying down. They would lose it completely.