Meditation eliminates post-traumatic stress

The experiment was conducted at five US veterans aged 25-40 who participated in the fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq (or in both countries), has shown that the practice of transcendental 50% reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Transcendental meditation they were doing for the past eight weeks. The survey found that the subjects significantly decreased symptoms of stress and depression, and relationships with others, and overall quality of life improved significantly. Therefore, doctors believe that this is not so difficult in the performance of meditation technique is well suited to veterans of wars.

Study leader Norman Rosenthal, a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, Georgetown University, said that although the subjects was small, the results were impressive: Transcendental Meditation really changed the lives of patients. According to the professor, the success of the reason is that the regular practice of causing long-term changes in the activity of the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system; This is evidenced by a drop in blood pressure and more restrained reaction to stress.

PTSD arises as a result of stressful situations, "beyond ordinary human experience and threaten the physical integrity of the subject or of others." Different prolonged exposure, has a latency period and is manifested in the period from six months to ten years or more after the transfer of single or repeated trauma.

Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi offered, using the mantra. Technology provides 20-minute sessions per day twice in a sitting position with his eyes closed. The usual thought process at this time becomes less active or subsides, achieved a special psycho-physiological state of "relaxed awareness". Meditation requires effort and concentration, not associated with contemplation, mind control and visualization; the practitioner does not need to change the way of life or worldview. It is reported that over the past half-century technique of transcendental meditation trained more than 5 million people.