i have stumble upon few interesting articles concerning mediation i thought you might be interested in them.
1.Despite the tremendous advances in modern medicine we are still to develop truly effective strategies to deal with the common public health problems that cause the majority of mortality and morbidity in the wider community. The use of stress reduction has been shown to be beneficial in many diseases as it improves psychological and physical health and lifestyle awareness. Importantly the utilisation of stress-reducing techniques brings us closer to the ideal of a holistic, integrated health care strategy.
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the way in which psychological stress translates into physical disease. Some of the mystery has been explained by the “general adaptation syndrome” in which stressors induce psychohumoral changes. In the acute context these changes result in emergency adaptation of physiological function. In the context of chronic stimulation these changes, rather than maintain homeostasis, ultimately result in physical debilitation of body systems (Benson, 1976). The autonomic nervous system and the “parasympathetic response” is another mechanism worthy of investigation (Rai et al., 1988) as is the role of the Hypothalamic pituitary axis.
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2. Human Makeup Contains a Specific Natural Meditative Function
This idea is the most important key to building a solid understanding of what Natural Meditation is, how to do it, and how its benefits unfold. As we said in Chapter One, meditation is not just something you do. It is also something that happens to you. In this course, we refer to the effect of meditation as the meditative function, although a generation of well-respected scientific reporting on mind/body medicine has called it the relaxation response. The essence of the meditative effect is the refinement of consciousness, not the relaxation of the body. And even within the body, as we will see, the complexity and intelligence of the response far exceed what is carried by the term relaxation.
According to meditation theorists, the meditative state is a fourth state of consciousness, considered to be a peer of the three major states—waking, dreaming and sleeping. Each of these four states is unique. The meditative function is unique in that it consists of high awareness with very low physiological function. The following chart displays the four states in a matrix, sorted by awareness. High awareness on this chart is open, fluid, and light. It isn’t awareness of lots of objects, but of the essence of the self.
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Ayurvedic Yoga therapy
Yoga is given by a Guru (master) to a disciple. Gu means darkness Ru means light: so the Guru should remove darkness and bring light in the life of a disciple.
In the ancient India, the disciple used to live very close to his Guru and serve him with devotion. By doing so the disciple absorbed guru’s knowledge becoming master himself.
The Guru as well had the duty to revert his knowledge to the disciple as to a son and to give the disciple any means to act on his own.
Disappointing are those teachers who do not revert their knowledge considering it entirely of their property. Those who do not support their pupils growth. Those who deliver the science of yoga a bit at a time. And disappointing are those pupils who stay close to their guru with the only aim to steal his knowledge, but knowledge is a matter of a mutual exchange.
To tell the truth, all of the yoga physical exercises are explained in various books and anyone can look them up, but we must say that the experience, the precise instructions to perform the exercise, the philosophy, the science of yoga are given by a guru who continuously develop his experience. It is so much important that a guru must be devoid of self-centredness and centripetal force and a disciple must be devoid of selfishness and be full of gratefulness: this is the only possible way for a transfer or you run a risk that the yoga gets dirty and sterile.
It can be said that such an ancient tradition as yoga remains an alive science when both guru and disciple behave with love and drop any attachment.
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