What do you do when you're sad? Do you eat meals out? Go see a movie? Maybe the theatre? Do you go shopping? You might like to have a drink when you're sad. Or do things like jogging or going to the gym make you feel good?
No matter what it is, scientists are trying to show that the only way to be healthy and happy is to change yourself from the inside. Everything else is just a make-believe.
What's the meaning?
The only thing that can keep you healthy and happy is your brain.
Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, a psychiatrist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, have just finished some interesting research that can help you and me live better lives.
They took a group of 41 people who worked in a biotechnology company in Wisconsin and were stressed out but otherwise healthy. 25 people were taught how to do it. In this case: meditation on being present. Every week, the group met for a 2.5–3-hour meditation class. After six weeks, they all went to a retreat where they meditated for seven hours. Each member was also asked to use a guided meditation tape to meditate for one hour a day at home.
The other 16 people were used as a control group and didn't learn how to meditate until the study was over.
In November, at the end of the eight-week programme, everyone who took part got a flu shot. "The people in the meditation group had a significant increase in antibody titers," which means they are less likely to get the flu.
The main point seems to be. Learn to meditate if you want to be healthy, get over the day-to-day blues, and stay happy. When you meditate, your brain changes the way it works.
Also, they found that the more you meditate, the better you do in everyday life.
"What we found was that people who had been practising for a long time had brain activity
on a scale we've never seen before.'
Their way of thinking is having
has an effect on the brain in the same way that practising golf or tennis makes you better at those sports." It shows that the brain can do a lot of different things.
trained and changed in ways that most people can't imagine.
Davidson, Richard)
So give yourself time every day to work on your mind. It's true.
Good Luck
Graham and Julie
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