This being the first day after my meditation I don't feel any more relaxed, though I really can't be feeling any effects so soon. Now the idea that meditation will help to relieve stress, gaining new perspectives, or increase self awareness makes sense. These are all pretty believable results, since you are practicing controlling your mind and your thoughts. It's when the claims start to get really crazy that I have a problem with them. Now these are from the mayo clinic website. According to them meditation can help with:
Allergies
Asthma
Binge Eating
CANCER
Heart Disease
Pain
and Substance Abuse among others
Seriously now, cancer? I think it's ridiculous when people claim that stress is such a large factor in almost every disease there is. Lowering your stress isn't going to help you defeat a disease, especially one as fatal as cancer. I have Crohn's disease, something that is proven to be linked to stress. But being stressed makes it more likely for a flare up to occur. If I am having a flare up, relieving stress will in no way help the disease to go away.
I'm going to be doing my second night of meditation tonight so we'll see if my second session is more powerful than my first. I'll also start reviewing medical studies done on the effects of meditation.
Sources:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meditation/HQ01070
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