Everyone in the conscious community is well aware that meditation has tons of benefits ranging from lower blood pressure and creating a stronger immune system to improving moods and behaviors; but now we can chalk up yet another benefit of meditation.
Recent studies done by researchers from the Wake Forest School of Medicine have come to the conclusion that mindfulness meditation significantly reduces the number and duration of migraines as tested among 19 episodic migraine patients.
MIGRAINE MEDITATION RESEARCH
Ten patients were given eight weeks of mindfulness classes with instructions for adding personal meditation in-between sessions. The other nine received typical grade-A medicinal migraine care.
Those in the meditation group experienced with an average of 1.4 fewer migraines per month, which averaged nearly three hours less than the ones experienced by those in the control group. Pain levels of the headaches reported by those in the meditation group averaged 1.3 points lower on a scale of one to 10.
Now, these numbers may not look like much, but try to think of it this way…there were only 10 people studying meditation for 8 weeks. With extended periods of practice could it be possible that the patients' pain levels may decrease with prolonged practice? Sometimes it takes a few weeks to become accustomed to a certain type of meditation. So could it be possible that after long periods of practice that the patients may be able to transcend their pain all-together? I'm not sure.
I am sure that I have suffered from migraines in the past, and that meditation has helped me transcend the episodes of pure-nauseating pain caused by migraines.
A clear head is a happy head!
Let us know what you think about this topic by commenting below and for those of you who have friends or family members who are affected by migraines, be sure to share this along to them; maybe they can meditate on it and see how they feel about it!
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