In a study reported in the Archives of Internal medicine, the practice of meditation is transcendental can significantly reduce insulin resistance, decrease blood pressure and reduce heart rate disturbances. “We can use the relationship between body and mind to open the core intelligence that can bring healing psychology for diabetes and heart disease, “said Dr. Robert Scheneider, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention of Maharishi University.

In terms of reducing insulin resistance, Scheneider noted, “treatment of this disease can make it rich drug producers. And we can do this by intensive exercise and weight reduction, “said the author of Total Hearth Health. Insulin resistance is a decrease in the sensitivity of the situation the hormone insulin in lowering blood glucose levels with suppress hepatic glucose production and stimulates the utilization glucose in muscle and adipose tissue. As a result risk raises heart disease.
In his research, Schneider and his team studied 103 volunteers who been diagnosed with heart disease. Average suffers obesity and one third have a history of high blood pressure and 9 percent had diabetes. They were then randomly divided into two groups. One group receives training and practice transcendental meditation two times a day for 20 minutes which lasted for four months.

Meanwhile, another group received the knowledge of material about heart disease. Transcendental Meditation is a form of meditation that brings we enter into the silence of our minds until the total not think of anything or collectively, the process of thinking transcending.

The researchers found that systolic blood pressure decreased up to three points on the respondents in a group meditation. While the study group, systolic actually rose two points. Meditation also has a positive impact on heart rate; wrong a measure of heart health. However, significant differences were seen in insulin resistance. When compared with the levels fasting insulin with sugar, they are in the meditation group reduced to 0.75.

The researchers say, the benefits are not limited to type of transcendental meditation, but also other forms of another relaxation, like yoga, tai chi, and so on. However, Scheineder said, now is the transcendental meditation the only method that proved useful in many various clinical studies.

Meditation has many benefits for the body because it activates parasympathetic, part of the autonomous nervous system, which helps relieve fight or flight response, triggered by the nervous system sympathetic.

While sympathetic system is activated by stress, the body will out certain hormones that make the body become resistant on insulin. While the parasympathetic system is activated, body cells become more responsive to insulin.