Anyone who intends to meet with migraine in the future, without pain, needs may be only two things: The “correct” Form of Meditation and patience.
So at least one study, which was published in October 2019, the effect of Meditation on migraine patients has been studied reads.
But there are “right” and “wrong” when you Meditate?
What is the effect of the Meditation?
The study is the first investigation of the effect of Meditation on migraine in more detail.
Already, the positive impact of meditating on the suffering of headache was found to be very likely.
New to the research results of the American study, the result is that Meditation can affect migraine in a positive, therefore, is not also.
Noteworthy is rather the method which supports the scientists, Amy wachholtz, Rini Vohra and Aaron butcher.
The details of the research team that has not been examined in previous studies, namely, what is the key feature played in which Meditation is the key role.
But just because there are now so many different types of Meditation, which differ considerably from each other, revealed in this investigation the subject of interesting results.
Meditations have different therapy success
For their data, the researchers used an existing study of 2008, in the 83 subjects with a regular migraine suffer were asked to meditate for 30 days of 20 minutes of the day.
The scientists evaluated in hindsight, the different types of Meditation that were used.
Surprisingly, it showed that depending on the form of Meditation, the significant differences in the success of therapy.
Mental distraction only helps in the short term
The use of four different methods of Meditation were oriented: A spiritual, an inward or to the Outside of focused Meditation. In addition, progressive muscle relaxation was examined.
Various Mantras were allocated to the participants and “God is peace” for the spiritual, “I’m fine” for inward and “is The Grass green” for the “outside” of the environment, concentrated form of Meditation.
The Performing of the progressive muscle relaxation have been shown techniques for less tension, which you should for 20 minutes a day try it.
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The form of Meditation, which took place mainly in the environment are in the focus, as in their mode of action at the worst.
You could lead to a short-term mental distraction and acute Migraine headache relieve.
In the long term, but the mindfulness had the effect of exercises with a spiritual respect or concentration on the self or the own body in the most effective.
Here, after 20 days of daily meditation, work could be observed to long-term improvements.
Sources
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine: Migraines and meditation: does spirituality matter?, archived from the original on 22.01.2020: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10865-008-9159-2
- Science Direct: A reanalysis of a randomized trial on meditation for migraine headaches: Distraction is not enough but meditation takes time, archived from the original on 22.01.2020: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229918305946#!
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