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Culture and Health Assignment - NCS2202

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Edith Cowan University

   

Culture and Health (NCS2202)

   

Added on  2020-03-02

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NCS2202 - The following document is based on Culture and Health. The document majorly focuses on benefits of meditation. Meditation is where a person trains the mind or introduces a mode of consciousness as an end or to achieve some benefits or to allow the mind to recognize what it contains without it being identified with that content. Some of the health benefits discussed here are : Slows brain loss related to age, relieve pain, Improves concentration.  

Culture and Health Assignment - NCS2202

   

Edith Cowan University

   

Culture and Health (NCS2202)

   Added on 2020-03-02

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Running head: CULTURE AND HEALTHCULTURE AND HEALTH[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees][Institutional Affiliation(s)]
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2CULTURE AND HEALTHMeditation is where a person trains the mind or introduces a mode of consciousness as anend or to achieve some benefits or to allow the mind to recognize what it contains without it being identified with that content[ CITATION Way16 \l 1033 ]. It involves turning one’s attention and mind inward and concentrating on one thought, idea, feeling or thing. In most cases, meditation has been culturally perceived as a way of obtaining inner peace and moving closer to God. Meditation has a number of health benefits:Slows brain loss related to age: Studies have shown that those who engage in longtime meditation experience less age-related loss of brain tissue in comparison to those who do not meditate. The study which deployed a functional magnetic resonance imaging examined 100 women and men’s brains who had been meditating for about 20 years[ CITATION Jos131 \l 1033 ]. The two groups indicated a reduction in gray matter with age but the longtime meditators had significantly smaller losses in the gray matter of their brains. In as much as meditation cannot eliminate age-related declines in diseases or thinking, the research proves that meditation protects the brain[ CITATION Dav123 \l 1033 ].Helps to relieve pain: Examinations on meditation effects reveal that longtime meditators experience less pain compared to non-meditators even though they showed higher levels of activity in the areas of the brain that are associated with the pain. With meditation, the pleasantness of stimulation of pain is highly reduced. This is not achieved by inhibiting an experience of pain but avoiding the brain from indulging in thinking processes that facilitate pain[ CITATION Kat121 \l 1033 ]. As for the case of chronic pain, there is normally a tendency of pain hyper-vigilance that in turn creates a stronger emotional reaction to the noticed pain. Meditation helps to reverse this situation.
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