Meditation in Oncology and psychosomatic diseases Bashny.Net

A huge and invaluable role of psychological intervention in the treatment of cancer and serious psychosomatic diseases already there is no doubt in classical medicine. Many studies have confirmed that there is a strong link between the mental state and the physical processes in the body.


It is no exaggeration to say that in modern medicine, psychological care cancer patients is not less important than the physiological methods of treatment such as drug therapy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Moreover, there is direct dependence of the efficiency of pharmacological treatment supportive actions of certain types of psychological intervention. Simply put, more medicine to help that patient, which is better configured to fight the disease properly oriented competent psychological support and takes an active role in the struggle for their health.

Man is a complex system of physical and mental. There are different views on what comes first – the body or the spirit, there are different concepts of their relationship and interaction, but the view of man as just a physical body, and the treatment of as just a mechanical repair of the body, is hopelessly outdated. The spirit of man, his mental organization is an essential tool for regulating the physical state of the body. And one of the most important techniques of such regulation is the practice of meditation and awareness.

The use of meditation helps to solve problems in several areas of the treatment process. Consider the most important aspects of the impact of meditation on the health of patients and the overall treatment process. First, trained by meditation and practicing it regularly significantly increases the quality of life, improves overall mood, reduces symptoms associated with stress. Such changes in mood, primarily associated with changes in the patient's attitude to his illness, which is due to the fact that the patient removes themselves from a cycle of automatic thoughts about the disease. A long illness, teaches the patient to return to thoughts of her again and again, and these thoughts gradually obscure from human suffering all the world. And the practice of mindfulness allows a person to live in the present, what he sees and feels at any given moment.

Second, note that many studies in connection with the use of meditation, mindfulness is a change in the perception of pain in patients whose disease is accompanied by chronic pain. Mindfulness meditation allows a person to stop suffering, feeling the pain, reduces the inevitable sharp unpleasant sensation, and even drowns out the pain, studies show that up to 40%. The fact that mindfulness meditation gives the opportunity to the patient to withdraw consciousness from the epicenter of the pain, make it more of a watcher than suffering.

The unique ability of mindfulness meditation to reduce chronic pain, exhausting the patient, depleting his mental resources, another opportunity is to increase the efficiency of the immune system. Stress injure the human immune system, severely reducing its ability to effectively fight against diseases. And meditation is an effective relaxation tool and reduces the risk of depression on the background of chronic stress is the main psychological reasons for the fall of immunity. Depression often occurs in patients after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, in these patients, also observed a state of fatigue and apathy. Patients practicing conscious meditation to a much lesser extent prone to depression and easier to tolerate rehabilitation period.

Finally, recent research shows that mindfulness meditation affects the functioning of the brain at the neurobiological level. In mindfulness meditation aktiviziruyutsya areas of the brain associated with emotional control and direction. Also marked the intensification and improvement of the areas of the brain responsible for processing information coming from receptors of internal organs, which leads to better regulation of their work. In other words, mindfulness meditation helps directly the human brain to regulate its own internal bodies and to avoid failures that can lead to many psychosomatic and oncological diseases.

Thus, the patient is trained in meditation, mindfulness turns out to be well-armed against pain, fatigue and depression, he has a unique ability to assist your immune system and may even, in some degree, to exercise control over the functioning of your body.published

Author: Yulia Ustinova

 

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Source: www.ustinova.info/osoznannaya-meditatsiya-pri-onkologii-i-psihosomaticheskih-boleznyah/