Meditation and Blood Sugar Control
You have heard that diet control helps in sugar control. Right, no disputing the point. You have also heard that yoga and pranayama helps in controlling the diabetic condition. Again, no disputing the point. Have you heard that meditation also helps in sugar control? Many of you will take it with a pinch of salt. How come people sitting in a yogic posture and not moving a bit be able to beat the ailment? Difficult to believe, but it is a fact of the life and is true to its every word. So, how does meditation control blood sugar? The very first thing which meditation, whether done in Vipassana or Mindfulness way, does is to activate the parasympathetic nervous system which brings peace to mind. When it happens, the state of mind is relaxed and the mind sends and receives the right signals to the body. It helps to achieve a state of homeostasis within the body. So, gradually the whole of body parts begin to function properly. It is during this process that the secretion of in...