Streamline Meditation releases deep rooted stress and tension from the body, restoring it to a natural state of balance.

Although Streamline Meditation is purely a mental technique, it's influence extends beyond the mind and positively affects the body. As we refine mental activity during meditation the activity of the body correspondingly begins to relax. The short term effects can be noticed a few minutes after meditation has begun with the heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure all decreasing while alpha brain waves which are commonly associated with relaxation increase.

Scientific studies have demonstrated that the level of rest achieved in meditation is much deeper than sitting with eyes closed or just taking a nap. This allows accumulated stress and tension to dissolve returning the body to its natural state of balance. It's this state of balance which is the basis of meditations healing properties.

After we learn to meditate most people begin to notice positive effects from the meditation experience flowing into their everyday life. They report feeling less stressed and more able to cope, clearer thinking, improved level of focus and an increase in general wellbeing and happiness.

Meditation can help with:

• Reducing stress and anxiety
• Reducing hypertension
• Improving cardiovascular health
• Improving quality of sleep
• Boosting the immune system

• Meditation Boosts Your Immune System
  • Studies show meditation, now practiced by ten million Americans, boosts the immune system and rewires the brain to reduce stress. (Stein, J. (2003) The Science of Meditation, TIME magazine)
    
    
• Meditation Can Reduce Your Blood Pressure
  • Meditation significantly controls high blood pressure at levels comparable to widely used prescription drugs and without the side effects of drugs. (Hypertension, AMA Medical Journal)
    
    
  • A study of individuals with high levels of stress showed 77% were able to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol levels simply by training themselves to stay calm. (Health, October, 1994)
    
    
• Meditation Can Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
  • Reducing stress can dramatically reduce the risk of heart disease. In a five-year study of heart disease patients, those who learned to manage stress reduced their risk of having another heart attack by 74%, compared with patients receiving medication only. Reducing mental stress also proved more beneficial than getting exercise. (Dr. James Blumenthal, Duke University, 1997)
    
    
  • Twenty-eight people with high levels of blocked arteries and high risk of heart attack were placed in a program with regular practice of meditation, yoga, a low-fat vegetarian diet and exercise. Twenty people in the control group received conventional medical care endorsed by the AMA. At the end of a year, most of the experimental group reported that their chest pains had virtually disappeared; for 82% of the patients, arterial clogging had reversed. Those who were sickest at the start showed the most improvement. The control group had an increase in chest pain and arterial blockage worsened. (Follow-up studies suggest that the stress-reduction element may be the most significant factor in achieving these results.) (Dr. Dean Ornish, San Francisco Medical School, University of California, Lancet Journal)
    
    
• Meditation Can Ease Your Symptoms of PMS
  • Women with severe PMS showed a 58% improvement in their symptoms after five months of daily meditation. (Health, September, 1995)
    
    
• Meditation Can Help with Chronic Pain
  • Meditators are able to reduce chronic pain by more than 50%, while increasing daily function and markedly improving their moods, even 4 years after the completion of an 8-week training course. (Jon Kabat-Zinn, M.D. Stress Reduction Clinic, University of Massachusetts)
    
    
  • Relaxation therapies are effective in treating chronic pain and can markedly ease the pain of low back problems, arthritis and headaches. (National Institutes of Health, 1996)
    
    
• Meditation and Arthritis
  • There are several studies that show meditation can be effective for fibromyalgia. In a 1993 study of 77 patients with fibromyalgia who participated in a 10-week meditation-based relaxation program all showed some improvement in global well-being, pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances and 51% had moderate to marked improvement. "There's also evidence that meditation moderates the immune response" says Richard Kradin, MD, an immunologist and psychiatrist at Harvard University. Meditation may affect the nervous and vascular systems, as well as the immune system, which in turn would affect joint function and inflammation. (Arthritis Foundation)
    
    
  • Research shows meditation can help relieve many arthritis symptoms, such as pain, anxiety, stress and depression, as well as ease the fatigue and insomnia associated with fibromyalgia. It affects many body processes connected with well being and relaxation. Recent studies suggest meditation may balance the immune system to help the body resist disease and even heal. (Arthritis Foundation)
    
    
• Meditation and it's Effects on Aging
  • Meditation may slow aging. A study found that people who had been meditating for more than five years were biologically 12 to 15 years younger than non-meditators. (International Journal of Neuroscience, 1992. [From Health News & Review, 1993, Vol. 3 Issue 2])
    
    
• Meditation and the Stress in the Workplace
  • "Companies including Nortel Networks Corp. have recognized the benefits of meditation by building nondenominational meditation rooms for employees. CEOs such as Bill George of Medtronic Inc. have practiced daily meditation for many years ... When practiced regularly, meditation can help to lower stress and blood pressure and enhance our state of awareness. [Meditation helps] release stress and fatigue, rest the body and thus allow it to heal naturally by reducing the toxic chemistries of stress." (Lance Secretan, Industry Week, March 2001)
    
    
  • "The three-month study of managers and employees who regularly practiced meditation in [Puritan-Bennett Corporation] showed that meditation practitioners displayed more relaxed physiological functioning, greater reduction in anxiety and reduced tension on the job when compared to control subjects with similar job positions in the same companies." (Anxiety, Stress & Coping International Journal, 1993)
    
    
  • The owner of a Detroit manufacturing company started a meditation experiment at his firm and enrolled fifty-two out of his one hundred employees to meditate twenty minutes before work and twenty minutes at work on company time. The owner, R.W. Montgomery says "Over the next three years absenteeism fell by 85%, productivity rose 120%, quality control rose 240%, injuries dropped 70%, sick days fell by 16% and profit soared 520%." (Adam Khan, YouMe Works Publications)