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In recent years the western world discovered a new science that can be used as a handle on life is meditation. Previously there was the presumption that links meditation with magic, science demons, etc. Many people are afraid to learn meditation.
 Now meditation was greeted with more enthusiasm after conducting various researches and experiments prove that meditation has a great advantage, namely the inner health and physical health.

In research done by Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin by using brain imaging engine makes it meditation on prefrontal cortex activity shifted from the right to left. According to research by meditating regularly, the brain changes from the opposition which caused stress that led to the acceptance of nature were satisfied and accepted. The explanation is that people who have negative traits tend to use the right prefrontal area, whereas the left prefrontal is more enthusiasm, a sense of attraction, more relaxed and happier though less materialistic.

Other experiments conducted on advanced meditators actually has the ability to recognize the mood in a series of facial expressions, which switch at thirty-expression of a second. This capability exceeds the capabilities of an expert in this field such as psychiatry and secret intelligence agency.

Jon Kabatt-Zinn founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the U Mass Medical Center in 1979, has helped 14,000 people treat their pain without medication, including cancer patients, AIDS, and diseases with acute pain. Then he also studied patients who suffer from psoriasis, the skin disease that has not found a cure. Treatment of this disease causing stress in most patients. Kabatt Zinn meditation therapy to reduce stress in patients exposed to UV light. In two experiments, the skin of those who participate meditation 4 times faster than those who do not skin meditation.

In another study, Zinn Kabatt with Richard Davidson to give an injection of influenza in a new group of meditators studied and non-meditators, to measure levels of antibodies in their blood. The result of their meditation practice not only have more antibodies in the fourth week and eighth week after injection, but they are more mental activity has shifted more of the antibodies as well.

In 1967, Dr.Herbert Benson, a medical professor at Harvard Medical School started the research on meditation. He clandestinely at night enters 36 samatha meditators into laboratory to measure the speed of heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, and temperature of rectum.

After review, noted that:

• On average they use oxygen 17% fewer
• Lower heart pulse beats per minute
• Theta waves (which usually appears before bed) emitted increases, but not the same wavelength with the people who fell asleep.

From these studies can be seen that meditation is very beneficial for mental health and physical health affects.

As it has also been known that many chronic diseases are caused by induced stress, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, etc.. Stress also investigated lowered immune system, and cause health disturbances other. Hence, also biases minimized stress, disease trends must also be reduced. 
Meditation itself is not emptying your mind, but concentration on one object, such as traction and attention to breath, notice the color, etc.

 Meditation techniques performed in the above research is particularly Vipassana meditation, which focuses attention and saw the form of pain experienced, and trying to accept the pain rather than against it.

 Meditation is not difficult but so beneficial to health. Have you tried it?.