Does The Research Support The Use Of
Alternative And Mind/Body Medicine?
 

    Benefits of Relaxation and Meditation:

  • Greatly improves the quality of life for people with physical illness.
  • Provides pain relief.
  • May help control or reverse certain underlying disease processes such as heart disease.
  • May help to prevent disease from developing.
Facts about Meditation
It is estimated that in 1997, 83 million people used some form of alternative medicine. Americans spent approximately $32.7 billion dollars in alternative health services with relaxation and meditation being one of the most common treatments.

The National Institute of Health has found that there is strong evidence that meditation and relaxation should be advocated for the treatment of chronic pain and insomnia. Cancer patients who participated in guided imagery and relaxation had a significant reduction in pain and psychological distress. In two studies, the patients participating had twice the survival time.

How Meditation Works
Being diagnosed with a disease or having chronic pain is depressing and debilitating. After seeking medical treatment, many people seek alternative treatments. Meditation is an effective alternative treatment.

  • Meditation can reverse heart disease the number one killer in the United States
  • Meditation can reduce pain and enhance the immune system
  • Daily meditation can improve mood, reduce anxiety, and depression.
  • Guided imagery can reduce the level of stress which is correlated with increased bloodpressure and heart rate
  • Meditation technique is useful is reducing cholesterol levels
  • Deep Relaxation can bring high blood pressure back into the normal range
  • Positive affirmation can increase confidence and belief in one's wellness
  • Meditation can reduce muscle tension
  • Music has been found to relax the body and mind even when unconscious

These meditations are the results of many scientific studies and contain the best techniques that have been proven to impact upon disease, pain and recovery.

Each thirty minute meditation has guided imagery, progressive relaxation, breathing and music. The meditations are currently available in CD and cassette format.

The research is consistent. Meditation Works... Patients with chronic pain who practice meditation and relaxation techniques decreased anxiety and depression. They reduced the number of visits made to their physician for treatment by more than one third (39%). Continued practice of meditation techniques lead to even further reductions in the need for medical treatment. Research is proving that the mind can produce strong and effective healing.

Healing Power Meditations have been used by patients during chemotherapy for breast cancer and during radiation for prostate cancer.

 

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