Stress has proved to be a killer than more ways than anyone had imagined. Three decades ago it was published in Time Magazine “Stress is now known to be a major contributor, either directly or indirectly, to coronary heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidental injuries, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide—six of the leading causes of death in the U.S.” (Jun 6, 1983). Since then stress has been correlated heart attacks, strokes, insomnia even the common cold. In other words, stress really is the killer of this era but people are often so used to it they don’t even realize how dangerous it is. Like tobacco, the negative effects of stress can sometime be a long time coming. However, it is easy to reduce stress in your life if you know where to look.
Meditation has popped up at the top of the methods used by mainstream America to manage stress. As meditation techniques are studied and the dogma is lifted, doctors have found that meditation works just fine without being related to its eastern roots. In other words, you can use meditation just to manage stress and make your life better and forgot about any myths behind them. In a confluence of Eastern mysticism and Western science, doctors are embracing meditation not because they think it’s hip or cool but because scientific studies are beginning to show that it works, particularly for stress-related conditions. “For 30 years meditation research has told us that it works beautifully as an antidote to stress,” says Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions, a conversation among the Dalai Lama and a group of neuroscientists. “But what’s exciting about the new research is how meditation can train the mind and reshape the brain.”
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