Research Calls Flu Can Be Healed By Routine Meditation

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JAKARTA Research shows that regular meditation can be a strategy to protect the body from colds and disease. In a recent study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers gave flu injections to 390 adults.

Some participants took eight weeks of meditation class, some of whom practiced meditation eight weeks after receiving the injection, and the rest only got injections.

This finding reveals the benefits of maintaining health by doing meditation. After eight weeks, those who do minimal meditation are exposed to respiratory diseases and rarely miss work. In general, the group who do meditation is 17 percent better than the others.

Reported by MBG Health, Friday, June 23, meditation is very effective in preventing colds and disease due to its ability to reduce stress. If a person is very stressed and their lymphocyte levels are very low, they are more susceptible to viruses, such as colds, compared to healthy people who can regulate stress.

Disappearing or modifying (stress-triggering) factors in a person's life is very important to protect and add to the immune system's repose,' clinical immunologist Leonard Calabrese, DO, told Cleveland Clinic.

In addition to maintaining the health of the immune system, meditation has also been found to reduce symptoms of various dangerous conditions and diseases, including high blood pressure, colon irritation syndrome (IBS symptoms), anxiety, depression, and insomnia.

Meditation is not entirely to overcome the cold. This meditation must be done together with treatment according to the doctor's advice, while meditation is a way to relieve stress throughout the year. Finally, the goal of meditation is to avoid illness as often as possible.