More Meditation, Less Medication

Long ago, meditation was regarded as an Eastern religious practice. Today, modern science has now proven it to be a powerful tool for personal development and self-healing.


Meditation costs nothing. It requires no special equipment, it's not difficult to learn and can be practised anywhere, at anytime. As little as 20-30 minutes per day is fine and unlike medication, has no side effects.

There are many techniques, but all have a basic goal - to calm the restless mind and facilitate inner awareness.

Doctors agree that most of our illnesses are stress-related. Even when patients seem unaware, there are issues they are unconscious about that relate to their problems.

Every illness has a psychoso-matic component. True healing cannot take place if we only treat the physical manifestations (the symptoms) and neglect the underlying emotional and spiritual components (the cause).

Neuroscientists have found that meditation changes the activity of the brain. It produces slow alpha and theta brain waves usually associated with deep sleep. It also activates different areas of the brain - brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. This mental shift decreases the negative effects of stress, depression and anxiety. There is also less activity in the amygdala, the area of the brain where the brain processes fear. (More)

Source: The Gleaner