Meditation for Oregon

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Uncle Vern,Here's an interesting review, out in December, 2010, from Nueroepidmiology, reviewed in PubMed: "Patterns of Mind-Body Therapies in Adults with Common Neurological Conditions." "Results: Adults with common neurological conditions used mind-body therapies more frequently than those without (24.5 vs. 16.6%, p < 0.0001); differences persisted after adjustment. Deep breathing exercises, meditation and yoga were used most frequently. Nearly 70% of the adults with common neurological conditions did not discuss their mind-body use with their health care provider." See review at:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21196772Here also is a SHORT list of the benefits of meditation from the rapidly expanding literature that I pulled for my article in Dynamic Chiropractic: Meditation creates a unique hypometabolic state in which the metabolism is in an even deeper state of rest than during sleep. During sleep, oxygen consumption drops by 8 percent, but during meditation, it drops by 10 percent to 12 percent. Meditation is the only activity that reduces blood lactate, a marker of stress and anxiety. The calming hormones melatonin and serotonin are increased by meditation, and the stress hormone cortisol is reduced. Meditation has a profound effect upon three key indicators of aging: hearing ability, blood pressure and vision of close objects. Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than nonmeditators. Meditators secrete more of the youth-related hormone DHEA as they age than nonmeditators. Meditating 45-year-old males have an average of 23 percent more DHEA than nonmeditators, and meditating females have an average of 47 percent more. This helps decrease stress, heighten memory, preserve sexual function, and control weight. 75 percent of insomniacs are able to sleep more normally when they meditate. 34 percent of people with chronic pain significantly reduce medication when they begin meditating.6 Regular meditation practice may slow age-related and chronic pain shrinkage of the frontal cortex.7See at: http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=54397At present, no mainstream health organizations represent meditation or yoga (the grounding component of meditation). Chiropractic is the perfect medium for yoga/meditation via our history of promoting innate health, and via our history of addressing NMS problems. Meditation/Yoga need an American health care institution to make legitimate and represent them; Chiropractic (and the American public) need meditation/yoga to bring greater levels of preventive health and self-healing to the public. We could be the vehicle for greatly enhanced wellness training in Oregon!Would you be in favor of a more developed proposal in this regard to have in your bag? Sears, DC, IAYT1218 NW 21st AvePortland, Oregon 97209v: 503-225-0255f: 503-525-6902www.docbones.com