Meditation: Talk to the Cell

Meditation: Talk to the Cell
When you feel "under the weather" or have a cold, a quick trip to the local pharmacy shelves can send you home with pills, potions, or creams to make you feel better.

A number of factors contribute to making you feel unwell and scores of research now indicate that the health of your mental and emotional self plays a major role in affecting your mind and body.

While diet and the environment must be taken into account, how you cope with stress affects your immune system, cardiovascular, pulmonary and other major systems of the body including the brain itself.

Stress causes the brain to instruct the body to alter the number of immune cells, impacting the ability for infection to multiply. The nervous system aids in passing along the messages it receives from the brain to the receptors in the cells causing disease to occur.

The brain talks to the white cells responsible for fighting infection and can either increase or decrease their numbers.

Meditation is key
Meditation is key at warding off infection and maintaining optimum health. Meditation promotes alpha brain waves which are responsible for a feeling of well-being. People who meditate are more positive and optimistic in nature, able to deal with stress, and over time their meditation practice boosts the immune system and blocks harmful stressors.

Meditation increases your brain's ability to talk to cells without you having to consciously think about it. It strengthens your ability to maintain a calm and peaceful internal and external state of being, so that you are not affected by what happens around you.

Patients with more serious conditions such as cancers, heart attacks and even AIDS are shown to benefit from meditation. Their body increases the production of cells such as lymphocytes, T-cells and reduces immunosuppression.

Meditation is vital for everybody. Learn to Meditate. Your health depends on it.