{"id":27373,"date":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/2003\/04\/01\/meditation-effects\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","slug":"meditation-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/meditation-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation &#8211; Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficial effects which result from&nbsp;constant practice of meditation&nbsp;is due to the resonance with the subtle energies of the Mind of God. <BR><BR>The specific effects are that it:<BR><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>makes possible the amplification and inner directing of&nbsp; mental&nbsp;and&nbsp;psychological&nbsp;processes. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>gradually eliminates nervousness, shallowness, lack of concentration, anxiety, depression, prejudice, psychosomatic diseases, and&nbsp;inferiority complexes. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>eliminates stress and simultaniously offers a state of calmness and harmony, both inside and outside us, which is reflected in&nbsp;improved&nbsp;relationships and communication. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>removes doubt, suspicion, psychological&nbsp;troubles, lack of spiritual energy, physical exhaustion. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>activates&nbsp;creative imagination. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>regenerates the personality rapidly and profoundly. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>establishes&nbsp;self knowledge of the innate potential of each individual. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>makes one aware of&nbsp;the depth of consciousness, subconsciousness and supra-consciousness. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>accelerates spiritual evolution. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>increases capacity to control&nbsp;emotions and thoughts. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>strengthens the mind and by revealing its potential, leads to&nbsp;growing Self-confidence. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>improves memory and intuition. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>open the supra-consciousness gate; that of&nbsp;intuitive knowledge and countless paranormal powers. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>creates changes not only in&nbsp;mental and emotional states but also in&nbsp;sensory perceptions: the individual becomes more open to&nbsp;ambience, more conscious of&nbsp;nature&#8221;s beauties and colors, of others&#8221; happiness and sadness. He feels&nbsp;the texture of life as the gardener feels the petals of a bud opening.<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\nPsychologists who have used meditation in treating&nbsp;patients under clinical conditions demonstrate that for certain individuals, meditation reduces stress, anxieties, stress associated psycho-pathologies (insomnia, stammering, high blood pressure) and self-blaming. They also&nbsp;predict that meditation is useful for decreasing drug dependence, increasing self identity perception, improving mood, facilitating the expression of&nbsp;emotions, and increase&nbsp;activity and&nbsp;energy in general. Furthermore, meditation&nbsp;results in a&nbsp;calmer mind and a decrease of the impact of suffering. Physiologically&nbsp;Dr&nbsp;Lawrence Le Shan&nbsp;states: &#8220;Meditation essentially produces a physiological state of deep relaxation, along with a state of hyper-awareness. The metabolic coefficient lowers, as well as&nbsp;cardiac and breathe rhythm. The model of physiological responses of meditation differs from sleep or hypnosis. The physiological state produced by meditation appears to be opposite to that produced by rage or fear. From a technical point of view, we can say that meditation determinates a hypermetabolic state, completely different from the &#8220;alarmed defence&#8221; state, corresponding to the reaction of&nbsp;&#8220;fight or flight&#8221;. &#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn addition it:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>leads to a decrease of the metabolic coefficient, diminishing&nbsp;oxygen consumption and carbonic gas production. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>lessens the percentage of lactose in the blood which is&nbsp;determined by anxiety and stress; meditation does this&nbsp;almost 4 times faster than if the subject was resting calmly. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>increases&nbsp;skin resistence up to 400%. Interior agitation, anxiety and stress control the level of skin resistence to&nbsp;electricity. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>tends to slow down heart rhythm. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>dramatically increases the number of slow alpha waves (8-9 per second).<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<B>Conclusions<\/B>: Our body responds this way during meditation simply due to the focusing of the mind&nbsp;upon the &#8220;theme&#8221; of meditation. Thus the signals to which the body&nbsp;responds are simpler and more coherent during&nbsp;meditation than during any other circumstances. This fact has a positive effect on our body, which manifests as a strong tendency towards normalizing its reactions, and towards being as relaxed and healthy&nbsp;as possible.&nbsp;Anxiety indicators recede,&nbsp;and the consciousness can be in a&nbsp;state of spiritual growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beneficial effects which result from&nbsp;constant practice of meditation&nbsp;is due to the resonance with the subtle energies of the Mind of God. The specific effects are that it: makes possible the amplification and inner directing of&nbsp; mental&nbsp;and&nbsp;psychological&nbsp;processes. gradually eliminates nervousness, shallowness, lack of concentration, anxiety, depression, prejudice, psychosomatic diseases, and&nbsp;inferiority complexes. eliminates stress and simultaniously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation-dhyana-1734-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}