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Meditation can reduce High Blood Pressure

Researches have now indicated that those who are spiritually inclined have lower Blood Pressure than those who are not. Meditation (even simple prayers) can be allotted a few minutes time in one’s busy schedule and lower blood pressure can be added as one among the reasons to say prayers or to meditate.
A recent study conducted [...]

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Power of Meditation on health

“Meditation is a journey into depths of the mind to tap the huge reservoir of unused potential”, says scientists.  Scientists and doctors have agreed that certain meditation techniques have therapeutic effect and helps in the healing process.
During meditation, metabolic activity of the body is reduced as the volume of oxygen intake into the lungs is [...]

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Meditation - an exercise for the brain

Researchers say that meditation engages the brain. The specific areas in the brain that are responsible for memory, attention and decision making usually begin eroding during early 20s. Researchers at Harvard reveal that this process can be arrested by making space for chanting the “Om” mantra every week.
This time the advice is not from yoga [...]

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Mindfulness meditation helps retard HIV progression

There is still no fool-proof cure that has been discovered to combat the deadly HIV (Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus), which has claimed several thousands of human lives year after year. But, scientists have now discovered that mindfulness meditation can actually retard the progression of AIDS in the body.
Mindfulness meditation is a type of meditation which involves [...]

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