Just 15 Minutes Of Meditation A Day Can Alter Your Genes And Reduce Your Blood Pressure

It seems as though we can never fully gauge the wonderful benefits of meditation. So far we've learnt that the multitude of benefits we receive from meditation includes better heart health, deeper sleep, improved focus, stress relief and even relief from physical pain.

What's even better is that a recent study indicates that just 15 minutes of performing it might be a good enough time to reap the benefits of meditation!

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The study published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine indicated that people who meditated over an eight-week period had a resounding change in the gene that regulates inflammation, circadian rhythm and glucose metabolism, which resulted in their blood pressure!

In fact, meditation was termed as ¡®relaxation response¡¯ by Dr Herbert Benson, one of the founders of Harvard¡¯s Mind/Body Medical Institute, to help bring it into the mainstream as an effective treatment for stress-related disorders.

The ¡®response¡¯ in the process of relaxation entailed a person¡¯s ability to calm the body and redirect the blood flow to the mind, to counteract the ill-effects stress has on the body.

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His studies in the 1960¡¯s and 1970¡¯s revealed that mediation was able to help people suffering from hypertension by lowering their blood pressure and resting heart rate.

Ga?lle Desbordes, an instructor in radiology at HMS and a neuroscientist at MGH¡¯s Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, has been researching on the benefits of mindfulness-based meditation as an alternative to deal with major depression.

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¡°There are a few applications where the evidence is believable. But the effects are by no means earth-shattering,¡± says Desbordes, according to Harvard Gazette.

¡°We¡¯re talking about moderate effect size, on par with other treatments, not better. And then there¡¯s a bunch of other things under study with preliminary evidence that is encouraging but by no means conclusive,¡± adds Desbordes.

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¡°If we want that to become a therapy or something offered in the community, we need to demonstrate [its benefits] scientifically,¡± says Desbordes.

Her functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans have, however, indicated that changes in the brain activity for people who¡¯ve learnt to meditate remain prevalent even when they¡¯re not meditating.

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She wants to test how exactly mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) works in depressed patients, whether or not it can break the process of ¡®self-rumination¡¯.

Who knows MBCT might become one of the better treatments for patients suffering from clinical depression as well in the future.