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Peace through Meditation: Medical Aspects : (247)
It will be about 25% less for women. On this basis, the food intake must contain wheat, peas, milk, cheese, soybean, and almonds etc. for the supply of requisite amounts of the above proportions. It is said that the meditator automatically becomes a vegetarian.
Besides the proper food intake as above, the practice of meditation and Yoga also result in internal chemical transformations to produce the requisite amounts of secretions for purifying the mental states. These practices change the body chemistry and lead to chemical transformations through atomic oxygen and increased internal energy. This means that necessary secretions are produced due to meditation also while synthesizing the proper impulse - producing hormones and effecting the appropriate changes in the nature of brain waves. Also, the increased internal energy contents catalyse this process. Thus, the proper secretion of serotonin, norepinephrine and their utilization in controlling instincts and impulses of anger and fight makes the meditator as an altogether a changed personality.
When these meditation effects are considered with respect to the scientific facts shown in the first part of this paper, we may state that
(A) Meditation leads to physical and psychological effects. (1) The physiological effects are (i) Owing to the reduced oxygen consumption, there is slowing down
of the hypothalamic activities leading to reduced metabolic rate and increase in dead space due to which: (a) Proper amount of cortisol secretion takes place (b) There is regulation of the destruction of free oxygen - radical
leading to increase in the disease - resisting power and
longevity. (c) The testosterone and androgen secretions are controlled
reducing the aggressive tendency. Besides these specifics, S. Krisna" has indicated the following total physiological cycle involving general effects of meditation:
(i) Negative thoughts → (ii) Brain → (iii) hypothalamus → (iv) nervous system → (v) adrenal (vi) hormones → (vii) (glucose, heartbeat, water, anti-immunity chemical) → (viii) excess pepsin →
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