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The Pick the Brain website continues to publish great articles, and to think I nearly missed this one! A couple of days ago, the site had a post about how meditation improves health part 2. I reported earlier my responses to part 1. Part 2 looks at how meditation can improve the body’s reaction to stress.

The article claims that meditation helps ward off the negative effects of stress by taking the mind and the body out of the stressed state and into a relaxation response. This is a much more beneficial state for the body to be in and it helps reduce and control the release of unwanted hormones that are released during stress.

Meditation also, it seems, enables your body to utilise less oxygen and lower heart rates. It also has an effect upon brain wave functioning, similar in a way to the mind and body entering sleep.

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