Spiritual Growth & Ascension

I am delighted to welcome everyone to the group, which is a group to help each other with our spiritual growth, upliftment, & healing by giving each other loving support and by sharing meditations, spiritual practices, healings, and any blockages in your spiritual journey that we may be able to share some help and Divine Love & Light on.
 
We are all divinely connected to one another, for God's Presence resides within every human being.
 
And all awakened souls are helping manifest our 5th dimensional world by continuing to unfold and embody our own Divine Presence through our spiritual practices.
 
So sharing our visions of the new 5th dimensional world we are all creating...and sharing our experiences and spiritual practices that are helping us in our own spiritual journey are important in this group.
 
And sharing blocks and problems we are encountering on our spiritual journey are also important, for one of us may be able to share some insight and Divine Light into any problem.
 
My vision is to create a world where everyone is living in peace and joy and abundance with all of humanity having realized and embodied their Divine Self.
 
So everyone - feel free to share your Divine Love & Wisdom here with posts that help uplift us all.

Meditate That Cold Away

Posted by Melodie Munro on December 3, 2012 at 4:04pm

Meditate That Cold Away

Practicing meditation or exercising might make you sick less often

By Harvey Black

Meditate That Cold Away

The Best Science Writing Online 2012


Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way...

Read More »
To blunt your next cold, try meditating or exercising now. A new study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that adults who practiced mindful meditation or moderately intense exercise for eight weeks suffered less from seasonal ailments during the following winter than those who did not exercise or meditate.


The study appeared in the July issue of Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers recruited about 150 participants, 80 percent of them women and all older than 50, and randomly assigned them to three groups. One group was trained for eight weeks in mindful meditation; another did eight weeks of brisk walking or jogging under the supervision of trainers. The control group did neither. The researchers then monitored the respiratory health of the volunteers with biweekly telephone calls and laboratory visits from September through May—but they did not attempt to find out whether the subjects continued meditating or exercising after the initial eight-week training period.


Participants who had meditated missed 76 percent fewer days of work from September through May than did the control subjects. Those who had exercised missed 48 percent fewer days during this period. The severity of the colds and flus also differed between the two groups. Those who had exercised or meditated suffered for an average of five days; colds of participants in the control group lasted eight. Lab tests confirmed that the self-reported length of colds correlated with the level of antibodies in the body, which is a biomarker for the presence of a virus.


“I think the big news is that mindfulness meditation training appears to have worked” in preventing or reducing the length of colds, says Bruce Barrett of the department of family medicine. He cautions, however, that the findings are preliminary.

This article was originally published with the title Meditate That Cold Away.

Buy This Issue
If your institution has site license access, enter here.

Views: 50

You need to be a member of The City of Shamballa Social Network to add comments!

Join The City of Shamballa Social Network

Tags: Away, Cold, Meditate, That
Email me when people reply –
Follow