Om Your Way to Better Health
By now you've probably heard about the many ways in which meditation benefits the body and mind. Well, here's another reason to add meditation to your disease fighting arsenal.
A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine pondered the question: Can the leading cause of death in the US, congestive heart failure, be treated with Transcendental Meditation (TM)? The answer to this question was “yes” according to Dr. Ravishankar Jayadevappa, lead researcher in the study. This result was consistent with the results of previous independent research, which demonstrated that TM reduces factors often attributed to heart failure, like high blood pressure, stress, atherosclerosis, and heart enlargement. The study concludes that TM most likely reduces the sympathetic nervous system activation often associated with high amounts of stress.
Although TM was used in this particular study, any general meditation is good for health maintenance.