Meditation Reverses Aging

A number of scientific studies have revealed the positive effects of meditation at very physical levels, with even small amounts of meditation proving to have significant health and anti-aging benefits.

The timelessness induced by meditation appears to have timelessness effects on the body too!

These are explored in the synopsis of fascinating study findings just below, with the spiritual benefits of meditation covered further down.

Scientific revelations: meditation reverses aging!

Meditation has been found to increase levels of the anti-aging hormone DHEA (which decreases in the body with age).

In one experiment, 45 year old male meditators who practiced basic breathing or mindfulness meditation 20 minutes a day for 3 months, had 23% more of the youth hormone DHEA than non-meditators.

For women, this difference was even greater, with female meditators showing 47% higher levels of DHEA than non-meditators!

DHEA also helps to decrease stress, heighten memory, preserve sexual function, and control weight.

In another Harvard study, regular practice of basic meditation techniques was shown to have a significant positive impact on genes related to the aging process.

This study was conducted on a group that had never meditated before, and were taught simple breathing and meditation techniques that generate a 'Relaxation Response'.

After only 8 weeks, meditation had impacted 1561 genes in a highly beneficial way!

874 genes were 'turned up' (up-regulated), which were essentially anti-aging genes (such as those involved in the production of ant-aging anti-oxidants that fight age-causing free radicals in the body).

687 were 'turned down' (down-regulated), which were less desirable ones such as those related to inflammation (that causes collateral damage to the body).

In another research study, long-term meditators (practicing meditation for five years or more) were shown to be physiologically twelve years younger than their chronological age (as measured by reduction of blood pressure, and better near-point vision and auditory discrimination!

Even short-term meditators were physiologically five years younger than their chronological age!
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These studies explored basic meditation practices that induce a 'relaxation response'.

Listening to the relaxation introductions at the beginning of any of the Intuition Zone meditations will generate this relaxation response and induce a meditative state.

To remain in this state for as little as 5 minutes a day can offer beneficial results. You can work to increase this period of stillness of mind over time.

Even simple practices like observing your breathing to quiet and focus the mind, and exercise practices that support a still and focused mind like Qigong and yoga, for example, can be of help.

The Intuition Zone includes 4 meditations, details of which are covered at the website

These provide the spiritual benefits of meditation as explored below.
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The spiritual benefits of meditation!
 
(For spiritual meditations go to: www.intuitionzone.com)

Of course, the benefits of meditation reach far beyond the effects on the body.
In fact, your body ultimately reflects the goings on at higher levels, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  

Meditation is a gateway between worlds and allows you to experience expanded states of consciousness beyond the confines of your conscious mind and personality self.

Through meditation you can access more of the love, light and power of your grander truer self, and gifts, healing, and insights from higher realms of existence.

Meditation can help to free you from the grip of mental 'tape-loops' and conditioning, ego agendas and reactionary thoughts and feelings that distract you from the truth and your empowered self.

You can return to center and the remembrance that you are source, not subject, of your world.

Meditating assists you in stepping 'outside of the box' and seeing beyond the illusion; the matrix of beliefs and perspectives reflected out there in your physical reality.

You can experience the 'more real'; the energy and essence of your eternal self and the loving embrace of Source/God-Goddess/the universe. You can discover the oasis within - a place of peace, power, joy, love, and bliss.

You can experience more of your radiance that can shine that light to hold steady amidst outer noise, drama, stirrings and the moving tides of your external reality.

Meditation feeds your true self. It nurtures the flower that you are, giving it the space, nourishment and attention with which to blossom and bloom.

It opens the door to your temple within; a sacred space (as explored in the Inner Realm meditation) where you can 'just be', relax and recharge, and connect with your more real authentic self.

Doing so strengthens your core and access to the love and light and magnificent being that you are.

It also strengthens your personal connection to Source and your infinite nature, allowing more of YOU - your Higher Self- to shine in the world.

The Inner Realm Meditation (as well as others in the Intuition Zone at his link) guides you on a journey where you actually meet and connect with your Higher Self - the eternal, transcendent, vast being that you really are.

In the Inner Realm meditation you meet your 'Inner Guru'; the all-loving all-knowing highest aspect of your consciousness.

Meditation will also assist with energetic shifts and alignments and the reception and assimilation of higher light frequencies that can be more readily integrated.
These higher light frequencies can in themselves transmute and transform energy within your system, raising your vibration and naturally optimizing your resonance.

Denser slower moving frequencies can be washed away, dissipate, and discharge in these finer light vibrations, akin to having an etheric bath that renews and aligns your system on all levels.

The Earth Light meditation works to cleanse and align your energy field and access and activate more of your essence and the love and light of divine.
This in turn boosts your attraction potential and the realities you create and attract by virtue of your energetic state.

Meditation is a primary portal for your intuition. Your psychic senses and inner channels of awareness open and you become more receptive to spiritual insights and information, and the invaluable guidance your Higher Self wishes to relay.

It also boosts your creativity, imagination and the ability to manifest!

Visualization and imagery skills are sharpened and honed, helping to expand horizons of possibility and probability in the creation and manifestation of your life.
 
The Manifesting Blueprint Meditation (part of the Miracle Mind Manifesting Program) works specifically with using your inner mind to program your world from the inside out.

By accessing the source of all within, you can transform your reality from the inside out, changing the internal beliefs, for example, that are giving rise to your out-world experience (as done in the Belief Buster meditation at this link).  

Love and joy,
Aine

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