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Peace through Meditation: Medical Aspects : (245)
(iii) stressful managers, persons and ever police men (for improved working capacity) and (iv) patients of different types (for reducing the intensity of disease and improving the internal resisting capacity to feel and become normal) have shown positive changes due to daily meditation even for a short period.
The ancient literature on meditation gives the process and its effects only. It does not describe the scientific mechanism through which these effects result. Anatomy and physiology and other branches of medical science including neuroscience are helping us to understand this mechanism- though not fully yet. This requires the knowledge about the body and mind involving their inner functioning. We are interested more in mind and mental functions, which could lead to plan things for overall peace-living society of the future.
Our body has two main systems nervous and endocrine glandular which are important for our understanding the meditational effects. They produce thoughts and emotions. The digestive system should also be added here because it is our quality and quantity of food, which on metabolisation yields materials and other components for proper working of nervous and glandular system. It must be understood that the internal functioning of our system is highly democratic and mostly automatic. However, the equilibrated normal system gets unbalanced due to unbalanced or excess food intake for environment, which may lead to non-production of secretion in proper amounts and proper electric voltage across the cell membranes. Meditation leads to equilibrate these unbalanced internal situations.
The mind is the cradle for our urges, emotions and passions and also of our wisdom. The meditation leads to the purity of mental states involving our well-being and peacefulness. When we achieve this, mental purification will automatically result. The mind functions through neuro-endocrine system whose products not only participate in bodily function, but they influence our mental state and behaviour also. This system is the seat of our instincts, impulses, anger and aggression etc. In fact, the mind, body and emotions are a unitary system affecting each other mutually!
The two hemispheres of brain are joined by corpus colossom. Their cells are joined through serotonin, which move at the rate of 120
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