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Meditation slows AIDS progression

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Meditation might slow the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks, perhaps by affecting the immune system, U.S. researchers reported.

If the findings are borne out, it could offer a cheap and convenient way to help people battle the incurable and often fatal condition.

The team of researchers at the University of California tested a stress-lowering program called mindfulness meditation. It is defined as practicing an open and receptive awareness of the present moment, avoiding thinking of the past or worrying about the future.

The more often the volunteers meditated, the higher their CD4 T-cell counts -- a standard measure of how well the immune system is fighting the AIDS virus.

"This study provides the first indication that mindfulness meditation stress-management training can have a direct impact on slowing HIV disease progression," David Creswell, who led the study, said.
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4 responses // Meditation slows AIDS progression

  • This makes perfect sense, and it would be great to see the impact meditation has one other terminal illnesses.

    Mind over matter, as they say!
    Plarom
  • The mind is the ultimate healer.
    jahbini
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  • This is amazing. More evidence that simply having time and energy to expend on really looking after ourselves and using the powers of our incredible minds can truly be healthy. No wonder we all get horrible diseases (not HIV/AIDS I mean, but things which aren't contracted, like cancer) when we all rush about like crazy folk with little time for things like conscious thought and meditation.
    LindseyIndigo

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