Mind-Body Technique
Natural Systems of the Human Body Function
The natural human body has several systems on which the therapeutic touch, mind-body, or pure massage impacts. The following are ways in which the two correlate with each other. Generally, meditation as a body-mind technique helps in balancing the body systems through; reducing the rate of metabolism in the endocrine system by reducing the production of thyroxine in the body. It lowers the blood pressure through the facilitation of blood vessel opening and also improves the heart rate in the circulatory system. The smooth flow of blood nourishes the body through enough supply of oxygenated blood throughout the system. During meditation, the body responds to the effect, and as a result, it relaxes. The quiet massage reduces the tension and tightness of the skeletal body system. The process efficiently improves and promotes the smooth flow of the synovial fluid onto the bones and bones joints, it strengthens the muscles that support the joints and promotes weight loss that puts more weight on the joints.
Impact of Humans on the Environment
There are various ways in which human beings impact the environment; for example, overpopulation, fossil fuels, and pollution, and deforestation. These changes have consequently caused climatic changes like soil erosion, impure water, impure air, and many more. Meditation is a mind-body technique, lengthens, and strengthens the attention period. This maintained and endured attention makes one uphold the devotion to a particular thing. As we look to find the solutions for the environmental problem named above, meditation can help one find a solution to the problem as a result of focus, endured attention, and the long span taken in meditating about the issue.
impact of ethnicity and culture
Ethnicity is the condition of belonging to a particular social group with a common nationality, tradition, and culture. Most of the videos I watched from YouTube had their participants belonging from the western region of the globe. This means that most of the mind-body techniques and practices are common with the westerners. Although it is slowly being adopted into other regions as a procedure for treating health conditions. In regard to culture, it refers to a particular people in a society who practice specific social behaviors, customs, and ideas. Although mind-body techniques are being by other communities and in different cultures, this practice has largely been common to western culture as clearly from the dominance of the videos.
Relation to Health Promotion, Restoration and Education
The mind-body process has been associated with quick healing of wounds, as has been observed clinically. Matrix metalloproteinases and other tissue inhibitors responsible would healing are modulated by the change of mood and stress and, as a result, activate the wound healing process. In regards to the preventive aspect of mind-body technique, research shows that both negative and positive emotional characters can influence people’s susceptibility to infection. Results from a methodical laboratory respiratory virus showed that people who reported more positive moods and less stress recorded low illness while those who reported more negative and more stress also recorded severe illness. Additionally, interventions in mind-body are in testing to find whether the process can be used to prepare patients by reducing stress before they proceed for surgery.
Other researches show that individuals practicing meditation may consequently reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure. Other findings have suggested that meditation can aid in reducing depression anxiety, anger, and coping ability. Other researches have shown meditation as a mind-body technique can help smoking addicts quits smoking though more are required sufficiently back this finding. In another research, studies show that meditation has the ability to reduce pain through activation of part of the brain that responds to pain. Other health issues that studies have associated with the mind-body procedure are; reduction of menopausal symptoms, inflammation in the body, and reducing health disorders like diabetes and lung cancer.