Meditation and Your Health/ Use Self-Hypnosis

Meditation's ability to lower inflammation levels is particularly important because inflammation plays a significant role in driving the disease process in a whole host of serious illnesses ranging from cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's to arthritis, diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome.
For the first time, the studies are showing that a behavioral practice -- paying attention to your experience from moment to moment -- has the power to change the gene expression in your immune cells.

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