Meditation and Exercises for Reducing the Illnesses

Meditation or exercises can dramatically reduce the duration of illness caused by respiratory illnesses such as flu says Walter Helwich. There is one study which is trying to confirm this. There are two ways for avoiding the flu. The only deterrent that we are currently using is washing the hands and avoiding the contact with the sick people.

The people who are exercising regularly are less likely to get sick and they have lower stress levels than the others. For discovering if the exercise and the positive thinking really are preventing for disease, 149 people were tested. They were randomly assigned to one of the three groups. The first group were regularly meditating, the other was making the exercises larger part of the week while the third group did not make anything. The group that was regularly exercising was making an aerobic exercises, cycling, jogging or fast walking. After a few weeks of training, the participants were surveyed throughout the flu season for tracking how many of them were sickened. In the meditation group, during the study were 27 cases of respiratory disease, compared to 26 cases in the group that exercised and 40 from the passive group.

The passive group in convalescence spent 67 days due to respiratory disease, while the group with the exercises was absent 32 days and the group that practiced meditation at work has missed only 16 days. The reason for the lowest number of days for the people of the group that practiced meditation are more resistant to the attacks of the respiratory infections says Walter Helwich.

Because there is only a few studies of this kind, the results are considered as preliminary and they are still containing a big “what if” that is relating to the question of that whether the exercise or the meditation can prevent the future disease.