To kill loneliness, people filling the day with partying, hanging out with friends, or go to the shopping center. The business is not wrong, but there is a much cheaper and easier, which is meditation.
Meditation is a relaxation practice by clearing the mind of all things interesting, overburden, or worrying about the day-to-day life, according to a study to prevent loneliness. Meditation is also considered to reduce inflammation as a starting point for a serious disease that emotionally draining.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Mellon University in Pitsburg researching adult for eight weeks. Research based on the reduction of stress by adjusting the current thoughts, closing the past and projecting the future.
"Training meditation can help people get out of feeling depressed," said J. David Creswell of Carnegie Melleon.
This small study involved 40 adult women mostly aged 50-85 years. They were randomly divided into a group meditation, and meditation group did. For two months, feelings of loneliness and blood pressure as a marker of inflammation of the respondents was measured from the beginning to the end of the study.
The group meditation for weeks doing individual meditation program, the control group, as well as awareness training at home. They were accompanied by leading trainers, yoga and stretching guides and discussion based on the experience of the respondents.
The results of this study provide guidance that the simplest form of meditation can affect adult health, as well as dispel loneliness. However, this study can not directly formulate whether the decrease inflammation means a person suffering from certain diseases.
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