| I love it when research catches up with God! A | | | | And you turn up the level of healing, nourishing, |
| recent study (Neurology, 2009) shows that living | | | | calming and relaxing biochemicals in your brain |
| "calm and relaxed" reduces your chances of | | | | every time you meditate! |
| getting dementia by 50%. | | | | When you meditate, when you set aside a few |
| That's a really meaningful difference. And it makes | | | | minutes during the day to simply enjoy the love |
| sense. When you're anxious, worried and | | | | and protection you have in the Lord, you begin to |
| stressed, or when you live with anger, hostility | | | | experience the peace of His love, and you live in |
| and bitterness, you have constant showers of | | | | the healthy pathways He created. More and |
| stress biochemicals flowing through your brain and | | | | more, you will live "calm and relaxed"! |
| your body. | | | | What biochemicals are running through your body? |
| Those stress biochemicals cause damage! Stress | | | | Do you experience the love and peace you long |
| biochemicals throw the healthy processes in your | | | | to feel? You can meditate, and rest more deeply |
| body off-track. Stress biochemicals keep you | | | | in that love. You can change the biochemicals in |
| from sleeping, hurt your immune system, cause | | | | your brain and your body. And living "calm and |
| problems with your body's ability to handle sugar, | | | | relaxed" will become more and more the reality |
| and even damage the actual pathways in your | | | | of your life, every day. |
| brain . | | | | What a gift of love God gives us. The more we |
| Living "calm and relaxed" changes your | | | | enjoy the good gifts He gives us, the healthier |
| biochemicals as well as your feelings! Instead of | | | | and happier we are. When we enjoy His gift of |
| stress biochemicals damaging your body, you can | | | | meditation, we become more and more healthy, |
| live with a steady stream of nourishing, healing | | | | more free to become the person we were |
| biochemicals flowing through you. Those well-being | | | | created to be, more calm and relaxed, open and |
| biochemicals help repair damage to your body, | | | | free. And--we may very well prevent dementia |
| and they help the healing process work better, | | | | along the way! |
| from your sleep to your immune system. | | | | |