Meditation relieves stress

Stress not only destroys our mental calmness but causes different diseases. As a result, we have to spend a lot of money. Walter Cannon, the Physiologist of Harvard, discovered about 100 years ago that when we get stressed, the pace of blood circulation, heartbeat, muscle pressure and respiration is increased. Another researcher of Harvard Dr. Herbert Benson showed in 1967 that meditation creates reactions opposite to stress in our body. As a result, the pace of blood circulation, heartbeat, muscle pressure and respiration is kept normal. He mentioned in his book ‘The Relaxation Response’ that meditation relieves the fight or flight response created in the body due to stress and restores the calmness of mind and body. In another research, it has been found that meditation decreases the secretion of cortisol, the hormone responsible for the stress. 

The chronic stress increases the oxidative stress in our body. It accelerates the ageing process and causes deadly diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, psoriasis. It has been found in researches that meditation reduces the oxidative stress.