According to thousands of years of tradition, Buddhists meditate to understand themselves and their relationships with all beings. By doing so, they believe to be released from suffering and ultimately obtain enlightenment. In recent decades, researchers have been obtaining insight into the advantages of following this ancient tradition. By considering more secular versions of mindfulness meditation, they’ve discovered that learning to pay attention to our current experiences and accepting them without judgement might certainly help us to be happier. Studies suggest that mindfulness affects many aspects of our psychological well-being-improving our mood, increasing positive emotions, decreasing our anxiety, emotional reactivity, and job burnout. Mindfulness is good for our hearts. Heart disease is the 2nd main killer in Canada. About 1 in 12 (or 2.4 million) Canadian adults age 20 and over live with diagnosed heart disease.
Every hour, about 12 Canadian adults age 20 and over with diagnosed heart disease die. So, whatever decreases the risks or symptoms of heart disease would significantly impact society’s health. Mindfulness may help with that. In one study, people with pre-hypertension were randomly selected to augment their drug medication with either a program in mindfulness meditation or a program that trained progressive muscle relaxation. Those who learned mindfulness owned significantly greater reductions in their systolic and diastolic blood pressure than those who learned progressive muscle relaxation, suggesting that mindfulness could help people at risk for heart disease by bringing blood pressure down.
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