The body-mind meditation integrated (integrative leotard-mind training) would improve the attention and the mood, and would help to control stress better, and that, even short-term.
It is what a survey led in China by 80 students pre-universitaires1 reveals. Half among them received 20 minutes of practice daily to the integrated body-mind meditation. The other half, the group controls, has been initiated to the muscular relaxation.
After only five days, the students of the group meditation got better results to the tests measuring the attention during the resolution of a conflict that those of the group control. Subject to arithmetic tests after the period of meditation, these same participants also produced of the rates less raised of cortisone, the hormone associated to stress. They also demonstrated of the levels less raised of anxiety, depression, fretfulness and fatigue compared to the group controls.
Why the integrated body-mind meditation would she/it be only beneficial after some days, while other methods require more convenient? According to the researchers, it is the integration of several recognized techniques that explains these results.
The method consists of exercises of relaxation, of control of the breathing, mental imagery and full conscience, accompanied by a suitable music. This technique has been taught by a trainer who attended all sessions of meditation and interacted with the participants after the practice.
No cerebral imagery measure has been done following the exercises of body-mind meditation integrated. Some days of this type of meditation are sufficient to drag some modifications in the regions of the brain concerned by the concentration, the training, the emotion and the reaction to stress, estimate the researchers however.
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