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Studies Indicating Meditaters Have Fewer Heart Attacks, Slower Heart Beat

Numerous research studies have indicated that regular meditaters have slower breathing, reduced heart rate, fewer heart attacks, more concentration, lower levels of
lactic acid waste products, more calm, etc.

Positive Benefits of Regular Meditation
1. Deep Conscious Relaxation
2. Stress Reduction
3. Improved Concentration
4. More Orderly Thinking
5. Strengthening The Immune System
6. Slowing Of The Aging Process
7. Improvement in the Quality Of Life
8. Increase In Intelligence
9. Awakened Intuition
10. More Self Sufficiency and Freedom Of Choice
11. Pronounced Creativity
12. Increase In Spiritual Awareness
13. Freedom From Addictions Of All Kinds

From AN EASY GUIDE TO MEDITATION
by Roy Eugene Davis

Davis reports studies indicate meditaters have reduced levels of lactic acid.

Brain Scans of Meditating Buddhist Monks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12661646

Meditaters have fewer heart attacks

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/can-meditation-curb-heart-attacks/

Meditaters have longer attention spans

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/health/psychology/08medi.html?_r=1

Meditaters have more compassion

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18365029

In a 2008 study published in the journal PloS One, researchers found that when meditators heard the sounds of people suffering, they had stronger activation levels in their temporal parietal junctures, a part of the brain tied to empathy, than people who did not meditate.

Meditation reduces pain

https://asunews.asu.edu/20100407_painstudy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-...

Roy Eugene Davis And Others
Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12661646