Mantras Are Immune Boosters
Great news for people with diabetes: mantras are good immune boosters, reduce inflammation and facilitate better control of blood glucose.
This is what researchers at the University of Ohio and the National Institute of Health of USA found. In the year 2006, they published an analysis of the studies carried out in the last few years on the biological rhythms of the human organism.
All the studies included in the analysis coincided in that a coherence of those rhythms, as described by Dr. Luciano Bernardi from the University of Pavia, Italy, led to:
1. Stronger immune system
2. Reduction of inflammation
3. Better control of blood glucose.
In the case of the study carried out by Doctor Bernardi, the coherence or harmony of the body’s biological rhythms was achieved during the span of time people recited the rosary or chanted yoga mantras. It also lasted for a while after the reciting.
Maybe those members of the medical establishment who still believe there is no connection between mind and body and insist on prescribing pills for any physical disequilibrium occurring in our body, would like to consider, after reading this article, prescribing their patiens to recite the rosary or chant a yoga mantra.
Here is Dr. Bernardi’s article as it was published by THE INDEPENDENT.
Why the Ave Maria is good for your heart
By Lorna Duckworth Social Affairs Correspondent
Reciting the rosary or chanting yoga mantras induces more than just inner calm. The slow, rhythmic breathing that results is the key to a healthy heart and lungs, a study reveals today.
Reciting the rosary or chanting yoga mantras induces more than just inner calm. The slow, rhythmic breathing that results is the key to a healthy heart and lungs, a study reveals today.
Scientists found that repeating the Ave Maria or an incantation slows the breathing to six respirations per minute, which is the natural rate for a human. This has a favourable effect on the cardiovascular system, increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, concludes that incantations are so beneficial that they could be “viewed as health practice as well as a religious practice”.
Luciano Bernardi, of the University of Pavia, recorded breathing rates in 23 adults during normal talking, recitation of the Ave Maria, yoga mantras and controlled breathing.
Breathing was more regular when the Ave Maria was repeated 50 times in Latin and when the mantra “om-mani-padme-om” was chanted.
Prof Bernardi says that mantras may have evolved as a device to improve concentration and induce calm. Similarly, the rosary, may have partly evolved because it instilled a feeling of well being and increased responsiveness to the spiritual message, along with enhancing the immune system.
To Your Health!
Emilia Klapp, BS, RD.
www.TheDiabetesClub.com
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