The first full-length independent article was published on Natural Stress Relief/USA in The Examiner, which seems to be out of business. It was fair, well-written, and well-researched.
Translated from La Repubblica, Rome, Italy, March 10, 2005
Anti-Stress Mind Training
When we hear about the word "mantra", we usually refer to mystical
or magical concepts. Actually, the term derives from the sanskrit
“mananat trayate”, that simply means “mind training”. One method
of meditation from the Indian tradition consists of the mental
repetition of one particular syllable (or mantra) in order to
reach various stages of relaxation and internalization up to
bliss. How is it possible? The results of scientific researches on
meditation demonstrate that the mind can act directly on the
physiology and that stress can be eliminated from the nervous
system, either through the body with Hatha yoga, and through the
mind, with meditation. “The nervous system and the brain
continuosly produce electrical signals and are crossed by them ”,
professor Fabrizio Coppola says, researcher of physics and
astrophysics and author of the book “The secret of the universe”
(L'Età dell'Acquario). “Brain waves beta, alpha, theta, delta, as
shown by EEG analysis, are electric oscillations at low voltage
and frequency, up to around 30 Hertz. It's obvious that any
thought, involuntary or voluntary, consists, from a physical
standpoint, of electrical impulses - a set of vibrations and waves
of electrical nature, that can modify the EEG activity and,
consequently, can produce effects on the physiology -. Moreover,
it is obvious that, by repeating a determined thought in a
systematic way, even more remarkable consequences can be obtained
on brain activity and on the nervous system”.
Dr. Coppola explains: “In this view, stress and the tensions are
comparable to a kind of disorder that is contained in the nervous
system. In physics this would be called a background noise". He
adds: “The mantra introduces specific oscillations in the nervous
system, that are capable to massage it internally and re-model
it."
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