| Title: | Just Say Om |
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| Author: | --- |
| Mediagroup: | journal article |
| Publisher: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Time |
| Jahr: | 2003 |
| Band: | 162 |
| Heft: | 5 |
| Seiten: | 48-56 |
| Language: | Englisch |
| Abstract: | Our yoga instructor, Sharon Salzberg, a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and the author of "Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience," asks for questions or comments. Not only do studies show that meditation boosts the immune system, but brain scans suggest that it may rewire the brain to reduce stress. Ten million American adults now say they practice some form of meditation regularly, twice as many as a decade ago. Meditation classes today are being filled by mainstream Americans who don't own crystals, don't subscribe to New Age magazines and don't even reside in Los Angeles. For upwardly mobile professionals convinced that their lives are more stressful than those of the cow-milking, soapmaking, butter-churning generations that preceded them, meditation is the smart person's bubble bath. Meditation is being recommended by more and more physicians as a way to prevent, slow or at least control the pain of chronic diseases like heart conditions, AIDS, cancer and infertility. In 1967 Dr. Herbert Benson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, afraid of looking too flaky, waited until late at night to sneak 36 transcendental meditators into his lab to measure their heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and rectal temperature. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who studied Buddhism in the '60s and founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the UMass Medical Center in 1979, has been trying to find a more scientific demonstration of the healing power of meditation. INSETS: How to Meditate;Through the Ages. |