UK - A London cardiologist is continuing a yoga program which utilizes meditation and chanting to combat a range of medical problems. One participant, a 54-year-old woman on a variety of prescriptions and with a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure along with a thickening of her heart wall, claims the doctor's program has left her medication-free and that her heart has repaired itself. In the program, she had 12 weekly two-hour sessions of intense yoga meditation, learning the methods of pranayam yoga and its chanting element.
"With meditation, the benefits are maintained for long periods afterwards, and increasingly so the more you meditate," says the London cardiologist, Dr. Richard Carroll. A 9-year study done by the American Heart Association found that coronary heart patients had a 50% lower rate of heart attack, stroke and death when they practiced meditation and chanting when compared to non-meditating patients.
A study done by Georgetown University found students lowered their blood pressure after only 3 months of regular chanting.
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