When we perceive danger our bodies respond and prepare to either flee to safety or fight back. While this response is a necessary part of our make-up, it does not always serve it's original purpose of protecting us from physical danger. In our modern culture, this response if often activated repeatedly when the danger is not physical but emotional or social based. Therefore, we don't flee and we often don't fight back, resulting in anxiety, hypertension and other related diseases. However, we all have a mechanism available to us to counteract the effects of the flight or fight response.
Meditation results in our experiencing physical well being.
During meditation our body relaxes and we are free of stress and tension. Hundreds of scientific research studies have been done over the last 25 years showing the benefits of meditation. Most of these studies have been done on Transcendental Meditation , but the benefits are common to other styles of meditation also. We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it. How to Meditate by Lawrence LeShan Meditation helps us live a healthier, less stressful life.