How does meditation work for physical problems?
Meditation is gaining mainstream acceptance as a beneficial preventative health programme. It is one of the better studied alternative therapies and has been shown to provide a wide range of health benefits. More and more doctors are recommending meditation as an effective stress buster and useful support for patients with many types of chronic and acute conditions. Although physical problems vary widely, what is usually key to resolving most physical problems is the need to feel relaxed and de-stressed. In everyday life this can often seem difficult to achieve but our Meditation Machines enable you to ‘switch off’ from the world for relatively short periods of time. Researchers have shown that meditation lowers levels of stress hormones. In particular, while meditating, your cortisol level drops and stays low for hours afterwards. Cortisol is one of the most important stress hormones. It is present in your blood in small amounts all the time, but when you experience stress, your body
