Previously doctors used to say meditation can’t hurt you but now there are reassuring evidences that it may help you as well when it comes to prevent major diseases.
A new research has found that people with heart disease who attended a health education class over more than five years practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48 per cent less likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from all causes compared with those who didn’t.
Those practising meditation also lowered their blood pressure and reported less stress and anger. The more regularly patients meditated, the greater their survival, said researchers who conducted the study at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
“We hypothesised that reducing stress by managing the mind-body connection would help improve rates of this epidemic disease,” said Robert Schneider, M.D., lead researcher and director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention in Fairfield, Iowa.
“It appears that Transcendental Meditation is a technique that turns on the body’s own pharmacy — to repair and maintain itself,” he stated.
The stress reduction programme using meditation significantly reduced stroke and heart diseases. The studies stated that better health outcomes observed among heart patients who practiced meditation compared to those who did not, but brain-focusing program with the better health results could not be certainly claimed by those trials.
“Transcendental Meditation may reduce heart disease risks for both healthy people and those with diagnosed heart conditions,” said Schneider, who is also dean of Maharishi College of Perfect Health in Fairfield, Iowa.
The new research was published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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