People who practice meditation get to reap a lot of benefits, including the alleviation of a lot of physical problems. Meditation is known to reduce your chances of getting sick, helps you heal faster when you catch something or when you suffer an injury, but it also can help to alleviate chronic conditions- especially headaches and migraines. For those people who regularly suffer from these conditions, anything that can help is all but a miracle, and the fact that meditation is such a simple and easy cure makes it that much better.
There are some people who are skeptical about whether or not meditation can really do anything to cure headaches, but it actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
To start, meditation is one of the best ways to relax your body and remove tension from the tip of your toes to the top of your head. Headaches are often caused by bodily tension, especially when that tension is held in the face, jaw and neck. As you sink into a meditative trance you naturally relax your whole body, which lets go of the tension and the clenching which can cause headaches or make them worse.
This understanding is backed up by the research of Herbert Benson (M.D.), Helen P. Klemchuck (A.B.) and John R Graham (M.D.) who found that regularly practicing meditation can reduce headache incidents by at least 37%, and that certain forms of meditation have been shown to completely eliminate headaches in some individuals.
Headaches are also often caused by stress and worry, and meditation is all about letting go of those toxic mental conditions and moving into the present moment. Meditation helps you find that calm and quiet space inside your mind where there is nothing to worry about. As you learn to relax and not mentally tense over every little thing, you reduce the chances of developing a headache and you increase the chances of being able to eliminate a headache when it develops.
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