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Is Meditation Right for you? excerpts from EOC Institute on Meditation People over 60 often report feeling frustrated when unable to function as well as they used to. A common complaint is that daily tasks seem to take much longer due to a decline in mental and physical faculties. As such, it’s not uncommon for seniors to experience depression. If this condition is treated with anti-depressant medications, it can often compound problems due to the neurotoxic side effects of these drugs. However, meditation, instead of medication, might provide a better solution. 1. Meditation helps memory: The dominant long enable a remarkable brain function improvement. term memory and short term memory storage hubs, Better focus, more creativity, quicker wit, are but just the Hippocampus and frontal brain lobe, both become a few of the available benefts. Meditation is many well-stimulated during meditation. What does this times more effective than a crossword puzzle. mean? Better long & short term memory recall, 5. Meditation melts away stress, yielding many great including retrieving long lost memories. The over benefts: For people over 70, long term stress can 70's person’s brain, through meditation, is ensured to come from many sources: chronic illness, disability, retain the ability to store new memories now, as well or the loss of a spouse. Two signifcant aging and as through the advancing years. quality of life factors, stress and end-of-life anxiety, 2.Meditation makes the digestive system work are greatly reduced after beginning a meditation better: The deep breathing exercises central to any program. Naturally, many experts believe meditation meditation program improve circulation and blood to be the “fountain of youth” for both the body and oxygen enrichment, sending extra help to all of the brain, and older people can receive a limitless number organs, including the stomach and intestines. After of these benefts. incorporating meditation into their daily lives, senior citizens with digestive problems will see immediate relief. In addition to the digestive systems multiplied effciency, meditation’s extra oxygen boost helps the immune system, heals the lungs, and improves circulation. 3. Meditation activates the happy part of the brain: By stimulating the “feel-good” prefrontal cortex brain region, people who suffer from depression can beneft greatly from meditation. With increased feelings of happiness in the mind, someone over 70 can renew his or her zest for life! 4. Meditation sharpens and focuses the mind: With an increased mental alertness and heightened ability to function as a well-capable member of society, meditation can your older years just as rewarding as other life phases. The synchronized brain hemispheres, left and right, of an older meditator page 8 | www.celebrationmagazine.com