An Analysis of Meditation as a Complementary Therapy Approach

This report provides an overview of complementary therapies, focusing on meditation as a key approach to enhance well-being and quality of life. It discusses how meditation addresses physiological impacts of stress, depression, and anxiety, and its increasing use in healthcare. The report details various types of meditation, including mindfulness, transcendental meditation, and yoga, highlighting their benefits in stress reduction, emotional balance, and overall health improvement. It also recommends the use of meditation for individuals experiencing chronic pain, high blood pressure, and sleep issues, while emphasizing the importance of consulting healthcare professionals. The report concludes that integrating meditation into daily life can promote mental and physical well-being, offering a valuable complement to conventional medical treatments, with Desklib providing access to additional resources and study materials.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The complementary therapies are the therapies which generally covers a broad range of
the various treatments which can be used alongside. It can be as an alternative to, the
conventional medications. It can be used when treating the ailments generally which are ranging
from the IBS towards the management of the pain and promoting the health as well as mood of
an individual. The complementary and an alternative therapy is generally not a consistent field.
Instead of this, it is a categorical term which can covers a wide range of approximately about 100
philosophies of healing, the approaches as well as the therapeutic modalities. It is generally not
studied by an allopathic medication. It is basically a group of the various different health as well
as the medical care settings, the practices as well as the products which are not presently
reasoned to be a part of the conventional medications. This report will cover the various
approaches of the complementary therapies which is being used by the people to effectively
improve their well-being as well as the quality of the life. The principal goal of using such
complementary therapies is that the individual's are specifically not fulfilled with the
conventional treatment. There is a discussion about the meditation as a complementary therapy
as it can generally address the physiological impacts caused by the stress, depression as well as
an anxiety (Abbaszadeh and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
The complementary therapies are generally taken by the different groups of the health
care professionals as well as the lay care providers having an educational qualifications, the
professional certification as well as the regulatory vision. It can usually varies by the therapy, the
geographical locations and the cultural context as well, containing the conventionally trained
professionals. These such therapies are most currently exploited in a very broad manner as it can
generally make focus over the person, its physical, emotive, social as well as the cognitive. In
this, the therapeutic of the illness is the primary purpose of the complementary therapy. The
basic function of using such complementary therapies is to assist an individual so that it can
effectively cope with the sickness and can able to effectively enhance their well-being or quality
of life. By using such therapy an individual can also feel much better. The complementary
therapies are broadly used to treat the cancer health problems between the people who are
troubled from it as it can help to defeat the occurring impacts of the cancer such as pain,
tiredness and sickness as well. The therapies are ordinarily used to reduce the influence of cancer

and can effectively elevates the emotional as well as the physical well-being. It can also assist to
recover from various illness. The therapies can better result in union with the conventional
medications as it is specifically a group of therapeutic as well as the diagnostic disciplines
(abbar, Oyarzabal and Oyarzabal, 2021).
In this, the meditation as a complementary therapy commonly involves a long history of
use for elevating the calmness as well as the physical relaxations. The meditation can enhance
the psychological balance, overcoming the illness as well as increasing the overall well-being. In
this, there are various types of meditation but it commonly involves the four types such as a quiet
location having the distractions as few as possible. It generally involves a specific and the
comfortable postures such as lying, sitting, walking and many other postures. It can includes the
concentration of the attention such as particularly chose the words or the sensations of the
breath. The meditation can also includes an open attitude such as the distractions come and go by
nature without judging them. It is analysed by the study that the mediation can physically modify
the brain as well as the body. The meditation can potentially enhance most of the well-being
problems and can effectively promote the healthy behaviours.
Another definition of the meditation therapy which generally includes is, it is specifically
a method of the relaxation as well as the consciousness expansion. It can be done by
concentrating on some mantra or the sounds while destruct the outside environment or stimuli
from one's cognizance. In this, it can generally produce a deep state of the relaxation as well as a
quiet mind. During the state of meditation, an individual specifically concentrate on the attention
and can eliminate the stream of thoughts. These such thoughts are then jumbling the in mind of
an individual and causing the stress. It can leads to an outcome of increased emotional as well as
the physical well-being. In this, meditation can earlier meant to aid the people to deepen the
understanding of the sacred as well as the mystical forces of the life (Carrasco-Martínez and et.
al., 2019).
Nowadays, the meditation is most specifically used for the reduction of the stress as well
as the relaxation. It is particularly considered as a type of the mind body complementary
medications. It can generally produce a deep state of the relaxation as well as the calm mind.
During the meditation, it can provides a sense of calm, balance as well as the peace which can
benefit towards both the overall health and emotional well-being. When an individual can
meditate, an individual may clear away the data overload which can builds up the everyday as

well as can contributes towards the stress. The benefits of the meditation can generally involves
such as:
 Building up of the skills to manage the levels of stress.
 Enhancing the self awareness.
 Decreasing the negative emotions.
 Enhancing the imaginations as well as creativity.
 Enhancing the levels of patience as well as the tolerance.
 Gaining a very new perspective towards the stressful conditions (Didonna and et. al.,
2019).
In this, the meditation might be useful if the person contains a medical situations,
specifically the situations which may be worsened by the stress. While growing body of the
scientific research, it can encourages the benefits of the well-being attained by the meditations.
Most of the people specifically does not believe that it is quite impossible to draw the
conclusions about the achievable welfare of the meditations. It is determined about the
meditation from the various studies that it can aid the people to manage or overcome the
symptoms or conditions like chronic ache, depression, the high blood pressure level, the
cardiovascular illness, sleeping issues, migraine, an anxiety and so on. It is pretty essential to
have a conversation with the health care professionals about the advantages or disadvantages of
using the meditations. As in many cases, the concept of meditation can generally more worse or
damages the mental health as well as the physical well-being situations. The concept of
meditation is specifically not a replacement for the traditional medical treatment. But, it is the
most useful option towards many treatment which generally requires the medications. Instead of
using the medicines for smaller illnesses, people must start using the meditation on their daily
basis as it can generally provide a peace to the mind. Doing the meditation can also make a
positive impact over the health (Hoshino and et. al., 2019).
There are various types of the meditations which generally includes several components
in it. These all types of meditation can specifically shares a common goal which is to
accomplish the inner peace and make the body healthy as well as stress free. The types of
meditation are as stated below:
Mantra meditation: In this mantra meditation, people can silently iterate the calming
words, the thoughts in order to prevent the thoughts which can distract them. It is commonly a

Sanskrit term which simply means to relax the mind. By using the meditation type, people can
simply enhance the concentration as well as the awareness.
Mindfulness meditation: It is generally a basic type of meditation that is based on the
mindful or it can generally contains an elevated awareness as well as the acceptation of living in
the present moments. It is generally a training practice which teaches or educates the people to
slow down the negative thoughts as well as letting go these such thoughts. It can specifically
relax the body and mind as well. The mindfulness meditation can generally includes a deep
breathing as well as the consciousness of the mind and body as well (Izgu and Metin, 2020).
Tai chi: In this, it is commonly a series of the gentle physical exercises as well as the
stretches. In this, each of the posture can flow into the next one without any pause. This
meditation generally ensures that an individual's body is in constant motion. It is sometimes can
be described as the meditation in motion it is because it can boost the tranquillity through the
tiny locomotion which is associated with the body and mind as well.
Transcendental Meditation: The transcendental meditation is particularly a technique for
avoiding the distracting thoughts as well as promote the state of relaxed awareness. During the
meditation, an individual perform such meditation can usually sits in its most homely position
with their eyes closed and can silently iterate the mantras. It generally produces an experience of
restful alertness as it is linked with the greater metabolic activity in the parts of the brain. This
can indicate the alertness along with the reduced activity in the thalamus region of the brain that
is generally involved in the hyperactivity.
Guided meditation: It is usually a relaxed state and it illustrates the many forms of the
meditation that can utilize various techniques to accomplish or can increase the state of
meditation. It can particularly decreases the areas of the chronic aches, the depression as well as
many other illnesses which can affect the health of an individual.
Qi gong: It is generally a form of exercise which stress over the calmness as well as
meditative breathing. The type of meditation techniques can help to decrease the stress levels and
can enhances the flow of blood. An Qi gong can leads to enhance the fitness of an individual,
ultimately can reduce the risk of developing the chronic illness (Klimes-Dougan and et. al.,
2020).
Yoga: In this, an individual can generally execute a series of the postures as well as a
controlled breathing exercises in order to promote a flexible body as well as a calm mind. Doing

yoga can effectively encourage the process of healing. It can also aid the people who generally
experiences the symptoms having the fewer suffering and more centeredness as well.
In this, the meditation on the daily basis can specifically aid the people to execute better at their
work. It can aid to clear the minds so that people can effectively concentrate over their present
work. Doing this as a therapy, it can provide a huge productivity support. It can help the people
to decrease the risk of having depression. It is determined from the analysis that daily meditation
can increase the well-being as well as can effectively able to treat the symptoms of various
illness (Lee and et. al., 2019).
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended to the people that they must book an appointment once a weak for
meditation so that the public can easily enhance their well-being. The people who are troubled
from the migraine or any other ill health are highly recommended to use the meditation therapy
as it is quite effective to cure the issues with brains. It specifically contains the therapies that are
not particularly a part of the orthodox medical aid profession such as, homeo-therapy, yoga, an ,
meditation, acupuncture and many other. It is specifically recommended that the complementary
therapies can generally support to enhance the well-being which results in increased quality of
life. The complementary therapies including the meditation therapy can remarkably assist to
enhance the mental well-being also. This can also benefit to elevate the well-being by upholding
the lifestyle among the public. It is highly recommended to the people that they must do yoga or
the physical exercise on their daily routine to avoid or overcome the specific illnesses such as
obesity or cardiovascular illness. The physical exercise can help to promote the good well-being
and it can also make the human body physically fit.

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