Meditation

So today I was sitting near Centennial Lawn on campus doing some school work. While I was sitting, a man came and spoke to me about a book that he was giving to people for donations. The book was about meditation and the man had been a former monk for seven years. This lead me to wonder if meditation had any health benefits aside from relieving stress. It turns out, after doing some research there are other healthy factors. WebMD explains that the relaxation from meditating can lower a persons’ blood pressure. Click on this article to find out how this is possible. Meditation can also be used in lots of other ways as well. The Huffington Post names addiction, depression, and eating disorders as some of the things that can be improved by meditating. That’s impressive. Another shock to me was that pain can be relieved by meditating. Click here to read how meditation can “alter the perception of pain.” Meditation can actually help others in more ways than I thought.