Can meditation boost healing ?

[Saru]

Danny Penman speaks out about how meditation helped him to recover from a horrific leg injury.

Meditation is often touted as a panacea for all manner of ailments, from chronic pain to anxiety, stress and even depression. Like most sensible people, I’d always taken such sweeping claims with a large pinch of salt. However, five years ago I learned the power of meditation for myself after an accident left me critically injured and in constant pain.

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[Taut]

Spiritual teachers have been trying to tell us these things for a long, long, time. Seems it takes the religion of "science" to validate those teachings. Most of us in the health care field are aware that "attitude" , and "belief" have everything to do with healing. Though only a small percentage of the health care practitioners travel a more spiritual path to healing. It seems to me that a combination of physical medicine and spirituality would be a better approach. I'm glad to see that this is becoming more and more valid. Stories and books like these can certainly help bring these approaches to the forefront of effective practice and therapeutics. One cannot ignore the mind-body connection in treating illness of any kind. Treating the body does only marginal good if the mind believes that the body is dis-eased. A more holistic approach is needed. Great article!!!! I hope it opens many eyes.

[White Crane Feather]

Brain scans of monks, show that they use more areas of the brain associated with happiness. I teach children with anger issues and ADD certain meditations and their parents become thrilled with the results.

I beleive in about 100 years we will have a conciousness revelution. I think it is just starting.

[Trog]

May be it's 'The Age of Aquarius' kicking in ?

[greywolf]

i was just diagnosed with lung cancer and decided to combine standard and holistic methods of treatment. one of the things they encourage is meditation. thanks for posting this.

[Paracelse]

May be it's 'The Age of Aquarius' kicking in ?

Meditations existed way before the age of Aquarius (and worked)

[FlyingAngel]

I meditate and I can tell that it would make your blood circulation flows fluently, it could cool down your anger easily, make you more harmonic with the environment. I can also tell that it can't destroys virus or bacterias but it can boost your immunity system.

[Siddhawarrior]

I've been meditating now for the past 5 years and I can tell you I changed big time.

I just want to add that mediation is not just about sitting on a zafu cross-legged. There are other types of meditation such as; Yoga, Tai Chi and even in Christianity there's meditation such as, Heychasm (Orthodoxy)and Lectio Divina (Catholicism.

[Big Bad Voodoo]

I always want to meditate. Never find time. Family, job, and Im more into sports (gym,swim,football)...I heard some people say : If you dont have time for yourself you will have for doctors.

So I diceded that on Autumn I will start yoga classes.

[crystal sage]

I gather sending absent healing... is a form of meditiation.. and that has been proved to work.. just like the power of prayer...

As well as those other visualization healing techniques you get taught in some of those workshops you could also visualize being outside of yourself energetically and laying on hands of healing.. continue until you can actually feel it.. practice physically feeling your energy feel.. tweaking muscles via movements of your hands... fingers..visualizing the contact as you go... trust... feel.. experience...

[Mieuwie]

I do believe these sort of things can happen.....i've even experienced

[Homan34]

It is truth that meditation does heal human body suffering from different ailments by normalizing our hormone and blood circulation. It brings peace of mind to relax the over stresses mind and body.