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health advisory Hospital Alternative Medicine 2007-11-16 3:10:27

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There are a great many. For example, if you are angry or upset, and you learn to meditate to calm yourself, you will find your breathing and heart rate can be brought down to normal by an act of will. You decide that what you are going to do is calm yourself, and you do so.

Or if you have been feeling confused or overwhelmed, any negative feeling at all, really, meditation can help center you so that you can deal with the problems you face with calm deliberation. Meditation is not itself deliberation, but the ability to gain sufficient control over yourself that you can then deliberate on the facts and circumstances, and make your choices with wisdom.

Don't be afraid of the word "wisdom." It's not the exclusive property of the old man with a long beard. It starts building up from the time you are young, and there's no time like the present to get yourself a little more.

It also helps to lower stress levels, you become more physically relaxed, in turn you benefit your circulatory system, and increase the amount of oxygen you absorb through breathing. Psychologically, it can help releive anxiety,and depression, it can also lead to a deeper understanding of your self and others, so all in all, it's worth doing.

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I have panic attacks. These are associated with a rapid heart beat and raised blood pressure. I have been advised by my psychiatrist that as a preventative measure and an exercises while in a panic state I should practise diaphragmatic breathing (i.e. from the upper abdomen and not the lungs.)

This is usually part of the meditation process. It works.

He also advised me to take up Yoga which works on the same principles. I'm not going for points but I do recommend meditation.

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I am almost 52 years old; have been meditating off and on for 40 years, and a Qigong master.

I have a resting heart rate of 59 and a blood pressure of 96 over 76.

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