Anti-Aging Article Asks, "Can Meditation Make You Younger?"
Anti-Aging Article Asks, "Can Meditation Make You Younger
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The major part of Can Meditation Make You Younger? which appeared in
Lifestyle You, the online site of an Australian TV channel and magazine,
focuses on studies by scientists and healthcare practitioners investigating
the anti-aging benefits of meditation.
Im honored to tell you I was interviewed for this article because
meditation is part of my grow younger process, but the most fascinating part
of the article is what these others have to say.
The author, Dana Mrkich of Sydney, discovered my website and spent several
days in Taos NM interviewing me while she was on a trip to Americas
southwest.
What a delightful gift it was to get to know Dana: she is a treasure! Dana is
not only an author, radio host. teacher and counselor, shes also a
talented energy intuitive. Visit her website at www.danamrkich.com.
Can Meditation Make You Younger?
By Dana Mrkich, Sydney, Australia
Reprinted with permission from LifeStyle You, the online service of LifeStyle
You Channel.
Move over expensive creams and painful surgeries. Did you know that regular
meditation can make you look and feel 20 years younger, increase health and
longevity and prevent brain-deterioration, dramatically changing what we
previously thought were inevitable processes?
This natural - and free - practice is rapidly rising as a powerful
alternative to the multi-billion dollar anti-aging industry, with experts and
studies revealing that the effects go beyond feeling calm and peaceful for a
few minutes.
Real life story
Author of The Secret Method for Growing Younger Ellen Wood looks nowhere near
her biological age. Even though I have more than 74 years under my belt, I
have more energy, stamina, flexibility, and vitality than even 30 years ago.
My body is stronger and my mind much clearer and sharper.
Ellen credits daily meditation as being one of the key factors in her
growing younger program. Growing younger starts with the mind. It
doesnt matter how many exercises you do, or how healthy your diet or the
amount of restful sleep, growing younger wont happen unless your mind can
access that joyful place within that releases stress and promotes happy
cells. Meditation as a daily habit takes me to that place.
According to Professor and Doctor of Raphaology Medicine, Morning Spirit
Wolf, also a practitioner of Herbal and Nutritional Medicine, meditation
allows you to literally step out of time because it taps into the pineal
gland of the brain. Pineal function, a little known gland, produces
hormones that regulate bio-rhythms, immunity, perception, and aging.
The benefits of meditation
The impact of meditation on aging, particularly the aging brain, has been a
topic of research for many years for Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, the founding
president and medical director of the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention
Foundation in Arizona.
Our research reveals that meditation lowers the stress chemical in the
blood called cortisol. Cortisol kills brain cells and leads to cognitive
decline. Our research also shows that our simple 12 minute daily meditation
called Kirtan Kriya enhances brain blood flow in critical areas of the brain
and reverses memory loss.
Dr Khalsa also explains how meditation can increase our longevity and
decrease our overall aging process. Meditation lowers blood pressure and
other markers of aging including MVO2 or oxygen demand. It enhances
psychological well-being, perhaps the most significant determinate of
telomere length (telomeres are the end cap of our DNA), which is a very
important marker of aging and longevity: longer telomeres = less illness and
longer life.
Building healthy cells
Occupational Therapy Practitioner and Host of television show Functional
Fitness Suzanne Andrews uses meditation in her treatments with clients,
saying that meditation is an important part of healthy cell function, and
that our cells ultimately determine everything about the way we look and
feel.
Meditation when combined with diaphragmatic breathing increases oxygen
intake which increases blood flow. There are 1 billion oxygen molecules in 1
red blood cell - very important because blood nourishes all of your body
systems cells. Adults come with a total number of 100 trillion cells. Each of
these cells is an important life form that depends on oxygen and blood to
transport nutrients, gases, wastes, and hormones.
Meditation helps our cells work better as a system because a cell is a system
of parts that help it to work. Like a watch, if one part breaks down, the
whole watch stops keeping time. So too, our cells age when one part breaks
down. Keeping our cells healthy slows down the aging process.
Meditation and fertility
Essentially, meditation is a key way of taking charge of your own health,
looks and longevity. Acupuncturist Janet Humphrey is the founder of New
Yorks Giving Nature Center, and uses acupuncture needles to induce a state
of meditation.
This state restores the bodys optimum functioning and harmonious
nervous system function, benefiting our organs, skin and circulation. It
helps issues including insomnia, anxiety, depression, ulcers, digestive
disorders, menstrual and fertility issues. Cells are receiving the healthy
nutrients that they need. When they are well nourished they can work at their
best. Once people experience this through acupuncture, they want to maintain
it so I recommend meditation so they arent dependant.
The brilliance of meditation is that it is simple to do, and accessible to
everyone.
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