Much research supports the physical and mental benefits of meditation: physical benefits include pain control and the enhancement of the immunity system; psychological benefits include creating a relaxed mind state, thereby reducing anxiety and depression. Due to this, research verifies that meditators rely less on pharmaceuticals to relieve symptoms of various distressful states such as extreme nervousness, rheumatism, and stomach disorders.
Although meditation improves physical and mental states, most spiritual teachers minimize them, instead, emphasizing the development of spirit. In other words, meditation developed not as a therapeutic agent, but as a spiritual tool to remove the habitual mental chatter, thereby, achieving a calm mind that resembles the surface of a wave-less pond.
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