Meditation As A Healing Tool

Meditation has been proven to be effective in boosting the immune
system which is the focus of all healing. Having a healthy immune
system is crucial to having good physical and mental health. Your
immune system can be boosted in many different ways, including with
meditation.

For thousands of years, meditation has been used in the East as a
healing tool. Because it stimulates relaxation, you can use this tool to
also help you heal both mentally and physically.

There are many different ways that you can use meditation to heal.

There is some medical evidence that meditation can stave off disease,
even cancer. However, there is not enough medical studies on this
matter to prove any link between meditation and cancer survival.
Suffice to say that the medical community, despite its best efforts,
know very little about cancer, including why some people get this
disease and others do not. They also are up in arms when it comes to
a cure for most types of cancer.



Meditation will certainly not do you any harm. If you practice this
ever day for about 20 minutes a day, you can relax which will, in turn,
eliminate stress and enhance your immune system. One thing that
has been proven regarding meditation is that it can reduce stress. And
stress has been linked to disease, including cancer.

One way to use meditation on a daily basis to heal is to try the total
relaxation from head to toe. In order to do this, sit in a comfortable
position with your legs extended in front of you.

You can put a pillow behind your back as you practice this form of
meditation. Once you have gotten comfortable, you can then begin the
meditation. Close your eyes and count backwards from ten to zero.

Begin by wiggling your toes just a bit. Feel the energy in your toes
and allow them to have your total concentration. Do this for about a
minute or so, then move to your feet. Again, give your feet your total
concentration and feel the energy contained in this part of your body.

Continue to do this until you work your way up to the top of your head.
Be sure to practice breathing techniques as you work on this exercise.
Breathing in through your mouth and out through your nose. The
entire exercise should take about 20 minutes.

Try to continue to concentrate on the parts of your body while you
practice this form of healing meditation. With each part of your body
that you focus on, say aloud “this is well” or “this is perfect.” You can
use a variation to this, but what you want to do is give affirmation that
each part of your body is in perfect condition. Saying this aloud a few
times gives an affirmation.

This is a good way to meditate without worrying about your mind
wandering. Instead of trying to allow your mind to go blank, you can
concentrate on good health. Like attracts like, so says the laws of the
universe. If you tell yourself that everything is well, everything can be well.

Using affirmations with meditation can help you heal not only
physically, but mentally as well. Make sure that you tell yourself that
you are happy. Happiness, after all, is really a frame of mind. If you
can manage to control the instinct to be happy through meditation, you
can achieve not only happiness, but health as well.

While meditation should not take the place of traditional medicine
when it comes to healing, it can be used in conjunction with traditional
medicine so that you can relieve stress from your body and improve
your body’s immune system. Studies on cancer patients who used
meditation as opposed to those who did not use meditation indicate
that those who meditated lived longer than those who did not use this
practice.

Meditation has been effective as a healing tool for thousands of years.
This is but one technique that you can use in meditating that will allow

 you to promote self healing.