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ARIAS CAPDET, Pedro Pablo. La utilidad de la meditación como modalidad terapéutica: Parte I. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1998, vol.14, n.2, pp.174-179. ISSN 0864-2125.

A review of the literature about meditation -its meaning, general classification and its biological and psychological effects on aging and health- is carried out in order to provide an updated knowledge of the therapeutic possibilities of this practice. Meditation is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be useful in a clinical frame and in a variety of ways. It is associated with the status of psychophysiological relaxation which optimize, as it's been expressed, the efficiency of countless intrinsic mechanisms self-repairing of the body. The subsequent normalization of the accumulated physiological unbalance might then help to be healthy and extend an useful life. Meditation might be used to relieve stress, anxiety and other physical symptoms besides it generates cognoscible changes which can be applied in self-observation and behavioral handling as well as for the understanding of limiting or selfdestructive cognoscible patterns

Palabras clave : MEDITATION [methods]; HEALTHS.

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