1. That they contain repetition of a word, sound,
prayer, thought, phrase or muscular activity;
and
2. That they use a passive return to the repetition
when other thoughts intrude.
It is important to note that Benson looked back to the histories of the religious
and the non-religious and found that regardless of their world views, these two
steps are included and often specifically written in the practices of
every culture with a recorded history.
Armed with this discovery, Benson established a program at Harvard which
offered the "Relaxation Response" for training in stress and hypertension
reduction.
Years of success in facilitating improved health in Benson's program and many
others like it created a growing awareness on the part of the medical community
that some form of spirituality could be incorporated in medicine along with
pharmaceuticals and surgery.
Every religion promotes these two components of spiritual practice.
Benson's position and findings opened the door to a change.
Contrary to the conviction of many religions, the positive effects of meditation
could be evoked without alliance with religious customs.
Catholics use the Rosary, but It could, in fact, be evoked just as easily by
repeating the number "one."
Benson's studies continued by studying the effects of prayers of religious
people, and the same changes in physiology occurred -- as long as it
wasn't a beseeching prayer. It had to be a repetitive prayer:
an Allah, Shalom or Rosary; it didn't matter what prayer or sound.
Repetition and a passive return when thoughts wandered produced the same
physiological changes.
Research showing that stress leads to 60% to 90 % of the visits to
physicians, is a significant finding, because pharmaceuticals and
surgery do not work effectively on reducing hypertension or stress.
In fact, Benson's relaxation response has been
demonstrated to be effective in these areas as well:
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The consensus of medical practitioners is that meditation, exclusive of any
connection to a specific religious faith, has been demonstrated to be an
effective addition to standard medicine in healing and pain relief.
Medical practitioners who have researched life styles and health of the religious
all agree that religiosity, not just spirituality, does impact health.
Research in both areas lends
substance to the conclusion that
spirituality in our species is innate,
and that the arts are an expression
of that aspect of our humanness.
There is a biological basis between
spirituality and art-making in terms
of their contributions to health and
their effects on our physical and
mental health and well being.
Dr. Herbert Benson. As Associate
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical
School and the Chief of the Behavioral
Medicine Division of Deaconess Hospital,
discovered the phenomena of meditation
over thirty years ago.
Dr. Benson had been working to establish
a model in animals of behaviorally induced
hypertension. Some students came to him
and suggested that he study them,
because they thought they could lower their
own blood pressure through meditation. He
resisted, but "finally agreed to have a crack
at it".
In his initial study, he had the students sit for an hour getting used to the
instrumentation on and in them for the measurements to be made before, during
and after the experiment.
During the first measured twelve-minute interval, the students were instructed to
simply sit and think their normal thoughts.
During the second twelve-minute interval, the students were instructed to
perform their relaxation meditation.
And in the final twelve-minute interval, the students were instructed once again to
perform their normal thoughts.
The only difference between the pre, post and relaxation periods was that the
students changed the content of their thinking.
They found significant chemical changes take place even in people
who had never meditated before.
The relaxation group listened and responded to a tape telling them how to relax,
and there was an immediate decrease in the amount of action thinking, or beta
wave activity, even though they had never done this in their lives.
Dr. Benson
examined
the
components
of this
transcendent
al meditation
technique
and defined
two
distinguishable
functions:
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Along with the direct medical benefits, they found a recurring phenomenon.
As the work evolved, Benson says, "patients kept saying thank you for
teaching me these approaches, and isn't it remarkable that I feel more
spiritual."
People were reporting feeling, "spiritual", as a result of these meditation
exercises, and claimed to "feel the presence of a power, a force, an energy --
God, if you will -- and that presence was close to them".
People became more religious from experiencing these feelings. So, as the
work evolved further, they started training ministers, rabbis, priests and nuns
how to elicit this state within their respective traditions, and it is being used in
seminaries all over the world.
And then, they decided to try and bring together the seemingly disparate
worlds of religion and medicine with this ancient evolving, yet "new",
information on the healthful changes brought about by the quiet state directly
related historically to prayer and spirituality. They wanted to bring together
scientists and world religious leaders to discuss this research and to anchor
the discussions with existing physiological and neurological knowledge. Thus
was born the December, 1995, conference on Spirituality and Healing in
Medicine.
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premenstrual syndrome
(59% reduction in symptoms. The more severe the
PMS, the more significant was the improvement).
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(36% of infertile patients become pregnant after this program)
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