Meditative techniques can produce mental, emotional, and physical benefits. They work by changing consciousness, which alters the energy field and thereby changes the physical body. Specific techniques like mantra repetition and breath awareness can lift the mind from an ordinary to expanded state of awareness over time. Research shows meditation can positively impact brain structure, immune function, heart health, and disease management. It may reduce stress, anxiety, depression and blood pressure while improving focus, creativity and overall well-being.

1. Disease and Meditative
Techniques

2. Cancer and Meditative Techniques
Meditative
Techniques
Immunityand
Metabolism
Body,
Disease

3. Consciousness
Energy Field
Physical Body
A change of consciousness creates a change in the
energy field.
A change in the energy field creates a change in the
physical body
Sir Martin Brofman
World Institute of Technologies for Healing

4. Goal of Meditative Techniques
• Journey within to discover your true Self
• When the mind and body changes you do not
change. You are the manager and witness of
the mind and body.
• The goal of meditation is to realize this level of
being, not just to understand in theory but to
experience in reality an expanded state of
consciousness

5. Meditative techniques
• There are 4 main techniques to lift the mind
from ordinary state to level of super-conscious
awareness:
– Mantra Repetition
– Visualization
– Breath Awareness
– Cultivating Witness Consciousness

6. Meditative techniques
• When these tools are practiced over a longer
period of time, true meditation happens.
• It is a moment to moment awareness
without strain, where no past or future has
any importance. Only the space of present
moment exists
• Meditation is not just about sitting – it is
about living in a certain space where motion
and spirit flow in harmony.

7. Meditative techniques
• Produce effects on the mind, emotions and body
• Effects on the mind:
– Breaks down acute stress mechanism
– Restores the functions of serotonin and melatonin , responsible for
healthy sleep
– Restores the function of GABA, responsible for control of unwanted
thoughts
– Sustains the effect of endorphin, responsible for the feeling of well
being
– Reduces recovery after distressing situations
– Increases brain wave coherence leading to harmony of brain wave
activity in different parts of the brain (results in greater creativity,
improved moral reasoning, and higher IQ).
– Increases concentration
– Facilitates problem solving

8. Mind over Brain
• Research shows that:
– Long term meditation experience is associated with
increased cortical thickness
– Changes in gray matter after meditation were
concentrated in brain regions involved in:
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Learning and memory processes
Emotion regulation
Self-referential processing
Perspective taking (acting instead of reacting)

9. Mind over Body
Positive metabolic effect:
• Meditation improves proper co-ordination inbetween all
endocrine glands
• Enhances the immune system. Research has revealed that
meditation increases activity of 'natural-killer cells', which kill
bacteria and cancer cells
• It restores the normal rhythm of all endocrine glands, thus
normalizing hormone levels
• It improves thecellular anti-oxidants, which reduces the
hazard of free radicals in cells
• Decreases muscle tension (any pain due to tension) and
headaches
• Reduces Pre-Menstrual Syndrome

10. Mind over Brain
• Meditation techniques restore the alpha rhythm of the
brain which is responsible for rest
• Help to bring the coherence in both cerebral hemispheres
which improves thinking faculty
• Increase brain wave coherence which leads to harmony of
brain wave activity in different parts of the brain
Results in:
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Greater creativity,
Improved moral reasoning,
Higher IQ
Increases concentration
Facilitates problem solving
• Deep meditation restores theta wave rhythm, which is
responsible for intuitive work of the brain.

11. Mind over Body
• Placebo effect - In layman’s terms this means that the
treatment works not because of any scientific or medical
effect of the treatment but because the patient believes
that the treatment will help.
– According to research done by cell biologist, B. Lipton, PhD, 30%
of all diseases (including surgeries) are cured by placebo effect
• Our thoughts and feelings influence the body through
nervous and circulatory systems (William Collinge, M.P.H.,
Ph.D.)
– This allows the brain to affect the behavior of the immune
system
– Cell receptors receive chemical messages from the brain and
react based on those messages changing body metabolism

12. Mind over Body
• Dr. H. Benson’s research proved:
– Negative thoughts, bad moods and compulsive worrying
eventually take up physical residence in our bodies
– Negative thinking signals the brain to send help when no
physical sickness is present, persuading the body to get
sick when there is no biological reason sickness should
occur.
– By keeping positive thoughts about the body we can
actually change the physiology of the body for healthier
one
– The visualization of the healing process over the time has
been proven to speed up the actual healing of the body

13. Mind over Body
• One year mindfulness intervention follow-up
showed in breast and prostate cancer
patients:
– enhanced quality of life
– decreased stress symptoms,
– altered cortisol
– Increased immune patterns
– decreased mood disturbance,
– decreased blood pressure

14. Mind over Body
• Reversal of psychosomatic diseases such as:
– Constipation
– Indigestion
– Skin diseases
– Menstrual irregularities
– Skin allergies
– Respiratory allergies

15. Mind over Emotions
• Meditation techniques reduce the habit of irritability of limbic cells
• Sustain the calmness , non-reactiveness, thus avoids the tendency and
recurrence of stress reactions
• Help to improve the patience in daily activities
• Decrease anxiety and depression
• Release anger
• Ease stress, grief, and fear
• Foster inner calm
• Heal on physical and emotional levels
• Increase feelings of vitality and rejuvenation; happiness and emotional
stability
• Build self-confidence
• Access creative potential
• Lead to inner guidance

16. Mind over Heart
• American Heart Association research shows that
regular meditation was correlated with a 48%
reduced rate of death, heart attack and stroke.
Blood pressure was reduced and anger decreased
significantly among the meditation group.
• It appears that meditation is a technique that
turns on the body’s own pharmacy – to repair
and maintain itself
• Meditating 20 minutes twice a day can cut your
chances of sudden death, heart attack, and stroke
in half immediately