Meditation or Medication?

Physicians recommend Meditation to prevent or control chronicdisease While the value of meditation has been known in Buddhist and Hindu traditions from time immemorial, it is only recently that western medicine has come to acknowledge that In a recent article, Time magazine acknowledged that no less than ten million Americans currently admit to practising some form of meditation. It was in the late sixties that Dr. Herbert Benson, professor of medicine at Harvard, brought the benefits of meditation to the attention the medical establishment. He studied a group of 36 meditators – measuring heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature while they meditated – and showed that meditation significantly reduced resting heart rate and metabolic rate. “All that I did,” said Benson, “was simply provide a scientific explanation for... [read full story]