Health benefits of meditation

Meditation is very good for your mind and body.

Here are just a few of the health benefits (taken from Extraordinary Health Meditation)

	Reducing and Controlling Blood Pressure Murphy and Donovan, The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation, Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1997
	Chronic Pain Reduced more than 50% Kabat-Zinn, Clinical Journal of Pain 2 (1986)
	Vastly Better Sleep Jacobs, Harvard Medical, Say Goodnight To Insomnia, Owl Books (1999)
	Slows Down Aging International Journal of Neuroscience 16 (1982)
	Overcome Low Back Problems, Arthritis and Headaches National Institutes of Health (NIH), JAMA 276 (4) (1996)
	Overcoming Eating Binges & Achieve Weight Loss Kristeller and Hallett, Journal of Health Psychology 4 (1999)
	Improved Mood Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 68 (2000)
	Increased Circulation Murphy and Donovan, The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation, Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1997
	70% Decrease In Anxiety Roth and Creaser, Nurse Practitioner, 22 (3) (1997)
	55% Less Likely to be Hospitalized for a Benign or Malignant Tumor Orme-Johnson, Psychosomatic Medicine 49 (1987)
	Quicker Recovery From illness and Surgery Devine, University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing, Patient Education and Counseling 19 (1992)
	Improved Self Esteem & Relationship Quality Harrison, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 9 (4) (October, 2004)
	Improved Immune Response (Less LIkely To Get Sick) Davidson and Kabat-Zinn, Psychosomatic Medicine 65 (2003)