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Neuro-endocrine System
For a long time it was believed that the brain was the source of energy and the seat of impulses of man. Significant progress in endocrinology (branch of science dealing with endocrine system) in the recent years has established that the passions and emotions are expressions of the endocrine system."
Further recent advances in our knowledge of endocrine and nervous systems has revealed a functional interlocking between the two systems. Together they constitute a coordinating system now called neuro-endocrine system. They secrete, synthesise, and distribute chemical substances called hormones and neuro-hormones. These chemical messengers not only participate in every bodily function but profoundly influence the mental states, emotions and behavioural patterns of an individual. They are the prime movers which generate the powerful forces of all the instincts and urges, passions and emotions in man. Human behaviour under a stress, anxiety or emotional conflict is governed by them. Mastery through Meditation
It has now been established by the use of bio-feed-back and other scientific measuring equipment that meditation has the power to produce changes in the electrical activity of the nervous system as well as transmute the synthesisation of the outpourings of hormones from the endocrine system. Earlier we have shown that both the flight-or-fight as well as its opposite, the trophotropic responses are results of an integrated neuro-endocrine action. It was also shown that voluntary activation of trophotropic response can definitely be produced by the practice of meditation. The operational efficiency of meditation and its capacity to influence and transmute the activities of the neuro-endocrine system is thus scientifically established.
1. The complex of endocrine, also called ductless glands, system includes
the pineal, pituitary, thyroids, adernals, gonads, pancreatic islets and hormone-producing part of gastro-intestinal tract.
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