The Effective Meditation

Natasa Siripornleart
March 11, 2015

Outline
Introduction
A.thesis statement:students should practice meditation because it affects their
health, develops mind-mood, and it affects their brain.
body
paragraph 1
A.Topic sentence: Health
B.Supporting evidence
i.Affect to respiration.
ii.Showing of other organ system
C.Clincher sentence:All the change of physiology always be in good way. Students need
to know what is affects and how can improve it.
paragraph 2
A.Topic sentence: develops mind-mood
B.Supporting evidence
i. Meditation therapy for anxiety disorder.
ii. Meditation for attention deficit disorder.
C.Clincher sentence:Meditation therapy for depression and Meditation for attention hyperactivity disorder is important to students especially Meditation for attention hyperactivity
disorder because it can help for learning.

paragraph 3

A.Topic sentence:Affect their brain.

B.Supporting evidence
i.how the brain is important?
ii.what is the brain.
brain wave:
iii.meditation and brain.
fact:
C.Clincher sentence: The level of electroencephalography brain effect are also relate to
Physiology of meditation and mind-mood.
Conclusion
A. Rephrased thesis statement: students should practice meditation because it affects their
health, develops mind-mood, and it affects their brain.

The Effective Meditation

Have you ever heard about Meditation? The definitions of meditation is different ;it depends on religions are think and regulate it,but we will focus on what the Buddhas core teaching
about meditation. In buddhism,the easiest meaning of meditation is the ways to concentrate to
be awareness,or to mental development through practice,not scholastic subject to be understood
through books.(Chanchamnog, 2003, p. 225-227) According to buddhist teaching, they are two
main categories of meditation,concentrative meditation,and mindfulness meditation. Concentrative meditation will focus on something such as breath,water,light,energy center,or short group of
words. On the other hand, mindfulness meditation is the way to concentrate on mind such as
body sensation,emotions,and thinking. After that,detach observation with them,and relearning
with equanimity.(Gridsanaprakorngit, 2009, p. 14-15).If students practice anyway of
meditation,it will have many benefit things to themselves. The article will show you that students
should practice meditation because it affects their health, develops mind-mood, and it affects
their brain.
Health is a situation of complete body without disease.(Health is a ..., n.d.)In like
manner,Meditation can make a positive physiology.First of all,health will relate with respiration.When we breathe in,we get oxygen into the body.Red blood cells carry oxygen from lungs to
all the body cells,and spend with metabolic process.Then,red blood cells transport carbon dioxide back to lungs,and brain let the body breathe out in case we need to get carbon dioxide out of
body,and receive oxygen by breath in again.(Respiration System is, n.d.) Overall,organism
have respiration overtime,but the process of respiration always change;it depends on state of the
body,and mood.for example,when we do exercises,or feel angry.Well have a very faster breath-

ing than when we sleep,or just walk on the street called overbreathing or hyperventilation (Chanchamnog, 2003, p. 225-227) By the way,Concentrative meditation can help for respiration system. Dr.Herberk Benson (Benson, n.d),a professor of Havard medical school did experiment with
priest;He tried to studied about amount of Oxygen during practice meditation. (Benson, n.d.)
This picture presented the result of experiment;oxygen is decreased during meditation without
preparatory overbreathing,indicate that body demands less oxygen during a deep rest.(Respiration System and, n.d.) As the result,Concentrative meditation can restrain hyperventilation
great. If we have a perfect respiration system,we will have best health too cause the other organ
system like endocrine system,immune system,metabolic effect,muscle tension,and skin conductance are be able to work full function. (Kritsanaprokornkit, 2009).So,it means the students who
practice meditation will have a strong mentality,and active to study new lessons.
More than affects to positive health.Meditation has other benefits.Have you ever know?
Meditation also develops mood,and emotion. The Buddha said, mind precedes all things;mind
is their chief, mind is their maker.If one speaks or does a deed with a mind that is pure
within,happiness then follows along like a never departing shadow( Chanchamnong, 2003, p.
292 ) His philosophy is interesting.As you can see,mood has relationship with body so
much;many diseases about psychiatry are occured when you are in pressure.These are the case
study from anxiety disorders,and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Lets start with Anxiety
disorders,Anxiety disorders is the most common problems in psychiatric which affects nearly 25 million of
Americans. It can impel people into bad situations.These
people are likely to suffer from depression,their Job, and

personal relationships might be suffer.(Anxiety Disorders is, n.d.)About it experiment,patients

about 22 people who practice mindfulness meditation can decrease their stress about 20 people.
(Anxiety Disorders is, n.d.) In another case,Which people can not control their behavior and
emotion called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD (Definition of Attention,
2015) This picture is represent the interesting facts ,(ADHD by the, n.d.) Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder is mostly happen with the students,and it also increase in each year. Students of ADHD can choose the ways to practice either mindfulness or concentrative meditation.
(Kritsanaprokornkit, 2009) lets know about it affect, ADHD students practiced Meditation twice
a day about 20 minutes for 3 months.After that,effect for students are lower stress with ADHD
symptoms,improve memory,and increase the mindfulness to more concentrate with learning.
(Commonly used ADHD, n.d)

Students need to know something backwards,and forward-

s.Ways to make a go of higher grade is not too hard for the reason which they have a good behavior,and better focus.
The most important part,Brain.Why is it important? Brain is the organ that works by nervous system. Its like a boss of the body; control whatever you do. Medical profession accept that
meditation can affect to the brain.The result is shown in waveform,theyre 4 main kind of brain
waves: beta waves,alpha waves,theta waves,and delta waves. Beta waves will take place when
the body awaking awareness.Alpha waves was presented when the brain in state of relaxation
times,meditation,calm.Theta waves is a pattern of brain when it deep relaxation like dreaming.The last one Delta waves is the
top of stable type.It happen with
deepest stages of sleep.(forget about

crystals, 2010) They have many experiments that show how the meditation interact with the
brain.This researcher report that who meditated for 30 minutes in 1 day about 8 weeks;It found
increased the area of brain that important for learning,and the result also decrease anxiety and
stress. A control group that did not practice meditation showed noting changes
brainwaves(Bhanoo,2010),It mean students have an ability to memories and can improve their
thinking like creativity,and logical thinking than students who have no practice meditation .From
my own experience,Meditation change my whole life.three years ago,I had a problems with my
new school,new friends,and new environment.
I was very stressful;I started practice concentrative meditation seriously.A lot of changing was
happen to me.I got a very higher grade,had no stress,be steady and calm.
Once and for all,meditation is not affects only
buddhist students,No matter what religions they
are.Everyone can affected. Sooner or later students of
mindfulness,and concentrative meditation will certainly get positive health,better control their mood,and
their brain for learning.The buddha said,Those who
develop well mindfulness of the body,who never do
what ought not to be done-Of those mindful and reflective ones deflective ones defilements come
to extinction(Chanchamnong, 2003, p.3) . Happiness is always in your mind,but how to bring it
out meditation.

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