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• 2. Meditation Reverses Stress – , cancer, and even Alzheimer’s. Actually, stress is a primary factor in the development of nearly all disease. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD sifted through nearly 19,000 meditation studies, and found 47 trials that addressed issues that met their criteria for well-designed studies. Their findings, , suggest that mindfulness meditation can  like anxiety, depression, and pain.

• 3. Meditation Boosts the Immune System – When we meditate,  – the important soldiers that fight unwanted viruses and bacteria. One , after given weekly meditation training for 8 weeks, 48 biotech workers had significantly higher levels of antibodies than the control group. Meditation also increases electrical activity in the prefrontal cortex, the right anterior insula, and right hippocampus; the command center for the immune system.

• 4. Meditation can Cause a Placebo Effect, but it Doesn’t Have to in Order to Work – More than half of the clinical trials on new drugs fail because they perform no better than a sugar pill, or placebo. This is due to the strong ability of our minds to direct healing. When we meditate, we can alter our thoughts to be more positive and uplifting, which naturally supports the body in healing itself as it was intended to. The results are not just imagined, but real.

“Studies of meditation also show decreased sympathetic nervous activity and increased parasympathetic activity associated with decreased heart rate and blood pressure, decreased respiratory rate, and reduced oxygen metabolism. Functional neuroimaging studies have corroborated these subjective experiences by demonstrating the up-regulation in brain regions of internalized attention and emotion processing with meditation.”           coustesy: Christina Sarich | Naturalsociety| consciouslifenews