Meditate to Improve Your Health...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat... Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Sir Walter Scott

Are YOU Meditating? Yes, it can improve your health.

Even if you don't have years and years of meditation skills and practice you too can benefit from meditation. (See previous article citing measurable results for Buddhist monk practitioners). Research results show that meditation stimulates Brain & Immune Functions for everyboy! These are the clear and conclusive findings of a research study conducted in 2003 at the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. And many recent findings of other clinical studies, including trials at Harvard support these findings.

The 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation was applied in a work environment with healthy employees. And study consisted of two groups, those who meditated and those who did not. Subjects in both groups were were also injected and vaccinated with an influenza vaccine.

Findings: Researchers reported for the first time significant increases in left-sided anterior activation, a pattern previously associated with positive affect, in the meditators compared with the nonmeditators. Also they found significant increases in antibody titers to influenza vaccine among subjects in the meditation compared with those in the non-meditation control group.

Read More: Mindful Meditation Improves Brain and Immune Functions

Bottom Line: The health benefits are real not just "all in your head". Meditate to improve your health! Could this be a "no brainer" way to also lower your chances of Alzheimer's?