8 Reasons MEDITATION is GOOD for You
You probably read a lot about meditation in those days. It's popular topic. Well... there is a reason. Meditation can give you much more than you think. Let's get started...
1. Inflamation
Inflamation is a driver to many disseases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disseseases, diabetes even cancer and can be triggered by food, stress or enviroment.
Meditation can stimulate protein called NF-kB, which can regulate the inflamation in your body.
2. Immunity
Again - stress life can supress your immune system and meditation can help here as well, because it can help to stimulate your immune system in a good way.
3. Longer life
Telomers are endings of the chromosoms of DNA, which has direct impact on the lenghts of the life. Longer telomers are better and meditatioon can helps to reduce cell stress, which leds to longer telomers.
4. Anxiety
Our brain triggers anxiety feelings. It's much more easily triggered when we are in the stress all the time.
Meditation stimulates that part of the brain, that can calm you down and helps with anxiety.
5. Good mood
Depression and bad mood is usually treated by medications, which has a lot of side effects, but meditation can help you to stimulate that part of the brain, that gives you happines and good mood.
6. Focus
We are living in the world, when we are online all the time. You phone rings, e-mails and other notifications can find you anywhere. This leeds to lack of focus. Daily meditation can helps you to stay focused and even improve your memory.
7. Neuroplasticity
We need to stimulate our brain with new things all the time in order to stop degradation. Meditation stimulates brain to work which can help with neuroplasticity.
8. High blood pressure
Even high blood pressure can be regulated via meditation. We are living in epidemy of this health problem and calming down during meditation significantly lowers your blood pressure.
I believe it's worth a try. So take your time, sit and give yourself the luxury of a time for yourself.
Information sources:
Lawrence T. The nuclear factor NF-kappaB pathway in inflammation. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2009 Dec;1(6):a001651. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Regulation of gene expression by yoga, meditation and related practices: A review of recent studies Saatcioglu, Fahri Asian Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 74 - 77
Epel E., Daubenmier J., Moskowitz J. T., Folkman S., Blackburn E. Can meditation slow rate of cellular aging? Cognitive stress, mindfulness, and telomeres. Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences. 2009;1172:34–53. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Fadel Zeidan, Katherine T. Martucci, Robert A. Kraft, John G. McHaffie, Robert C. Coghill; Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 9, Issue 6, 1 June 2014, Pages 751–759, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst041
Leung M-K, Chan CCH, Yin J, Lee C-F, So K-F, Lee TMC. Increased gray matter volume in the right angular and posterior parahippocampal gyri in loving-kindness meditators. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2013;8(1):34–39. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss076. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Cross Ref]
E. Baron Short, Samet Kose, Qiwen Mu, et al., “Regional Brain Activation during Meditation Shows Time and Practice Effects: An Exploratory FMRI Study,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 121-127, 2010. doi:10.1093/ecam/nem163
Lazar SW, Kerr CE, Wasserman RH, Gray JR, Greve DN, Treadway MT, McGarvey M, Quinn BT, Dusek JA, Benson H, Rauch SL, Moore CI, Fischl B. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport. 2005;16:1893–1897. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Schneider RH1, Staggers F, Alxander CN, Sheppard W, Rainforth M, Kondwani K, Smith S, King CG. A randomised controlled trial of stress reduction for hypertension in older African Americans. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7591024/
1. Inflamation
Inflamation is a driver to many disseases like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disseseases, diabetes even cancer and can be triggered by food, stress or enviroment.
Meditation can stimulate protein called NF-kB, which can regulate the inflamation in your body.
2. Immunity
Again - stress life can supress your immune system and meditation can help here as well, because it can help to stimulate your immune system in a good way.
3. Longer life
Telomers are endings of the chromosoms of DNA, which has direct impact on the lenghts of the life. Longer telomers are better and meditatioon can helps to reduce cell stress, which leds to longer telomers.
4. Anxiety
Our brain triggers anxiety feelings. It's much more easily triggered when we are in the stress all the time.
Meditation stimulates that part of the brain, that can calm you down and helps with anxiety.
5. Good mood
Depression and bad mood is usually treated by medications, which has a lot of side effects, but meditation can help you to stimulate that part of the brain, that gives you happines and good mood.
6. Focus
We are living in the world, when we are online all the time. You phone rings, e-mails and other notifications can find you anywhere. This leeds to lack of focus. Daily meditation can helps you to stay focused and even improve your memory.
7. Neuroplasticity
We need to stimulate our brain with new things all the time in order to stop degradation. Meditation stimulates brain to work which can help with neuroplasticity.
8. High blood pressure
Even high blood pressure can be regulated via meditation. We are living in epidemy of this health problem and calming down during meditation significantly lowers your blood pressure.
I believe it's worth a try. So take your time, sit and give yourself the luxury of a time for yourself.
Information sources:
Lawrence T. The nuclear factor NF-kappaB pathway in inflammation. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2009 Dec;1(6):a001651. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Regulation of gene expression by yoga, meditation and related practices: A review of recent studies Saatcioglu, Fahri Asian Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 74 - 77
Epel E., Daubenmier J., Moskowitz J. T., Folkman S., Blackburn E. Can meditation slow rate of cellular aging? Cognitive stress, mindfulness, and telomeres. Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences. 2009;1172:34–53. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Fadel Zeidan, Katherine T. Martucci, Robert A. Kraft, John G. McHaffie, Robert C. Coghill; Neural correlates of mindfulness meditation-related anxiety relief, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 9, Issue 6, 1 June 2014, Pages 751–759, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst041
Leung M-K, Chan CCH, Yin J, Lee C-F, So K-F, Lee TMC. Increased gray matter volume in the right angular and posterior parahippocampal gyri in loving-kindness meditators. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2013;8(1):34–39. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss076. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Cross Ref]
E. Baron Short, Samet Kose, Qiwen Mu, et al., “Regional Brain Activation during Meditation Shows Time and Practice Effects: An Exploratory FMRI Study,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 121-127, 2010. doi:10.1093/ecam/nem163
Lazar SW, Kerr CE, Wasserman RH, Gray JR, Greve DN, Treadway MT, McGarvey M, Quinn BT, Dusek JA, Benson H, Rauch SL, Moore CI, Fischl B. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport. 2005;16:1893–1897. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
Schneider RH1, Staggers F, Alxander CN, Sheppard W, Rainforth M, Kondwani K, Smith S, King CG. A randomised controlled trial of stress reduction for hypertension in older African Americans. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7591024/
