Your brain is the only thing that can keep you healthy and happy.
When you are unhappy what do you do? Do you go out for a meal? Go to
the cinema? The theatre, perhaps? Do you go shopping? Perhaps you like
a drink to overcome your unhappiness. Or do you get a buzz from jogging
or going to the gym?
Whatever it is scientist are in the process of proving that internal
change is the only thing that can give you health and happiness.
Everything else is an illusion.
What does this mean?
Your brain is the only thing that can keep you healthy and happy.
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin and
Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre have
just completed some interesting research that can actually be of
benefit to you and me and the way we run our lives.
They took a group of 41 stressed, but otherwise healthy, individuals
working in a biotechnology firm in Wisconsin. 25 were taught
meditation. In this case: mindfulness meditation. The group met for a
2.5 to 3 hour meditation class each week. After six weeks they all
attended a seven hour meditation retreat. In addition each member was
asked to meditate, at home, for one hour a day using a guided
meditation tape.
The other 16 were held as a control group and did not receive meditation training until the study was completed.
At the end of the eight week programme, in November, they also gave all
the participants a flu jab. And guess what. “The members of the
meditation group had a significant increase in antibody titers” in
other words they have less chance of catching flu.
The bottom line appears to be. If you want to have good health and
overcome the day by day blues and maintain happiness learn to meditate.
When you meditate you change the way your brain operates.
In addition, they found, the more you practice meditation the better your daily performance.
''What we found is that the long time practitioners showed brain activation
on a scale we have never seen before. 'Their mental practice is having
an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will
enhance performance.'' It demonstrates, that the brain is capable of
being
trained and physically modified in ways few people can imagine.
(Richard Davidson)
So give yourself the space each day to train your brain. It works.
Good Luck
Graham and Julie
www.desktop-meditation.com
