Chapter 3 : Scientific Approach In Breath Watching Meditation

Chemotherapy nowadays has been the ultimate recourse in the field of medicine; it has given hopes to those individuals suffering from malignancies. One of those individuals that was diagnosed with a stage 2 lymphoma was 44 year old Danilo Ramirez. He has no other choices but to take the risk of getting better through chemotherapy and radiation. He already knew what kind of treatment that is, and what side effects he will undergo.

Ramirez said that it was really hard on him not just physically but more on the psychological aspect. He also mentioned that there were nights that he couldn’t sleep at all, knowing that the he had to face the treatment over and over again. This is because Danilo is also claustrophobic – a great amount of fear when it comes to small spaces. During radiation procedures, the patient needs to wear a large mask that protects that part of the body to avoid harmful effects of the radiation, with this, Danilo said that he is too claustrophobic to tolerate the radiation treatments.

Mr Hoffman, Ramirez’s doctor and the medical director of radiation oncology at Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank California, insisted that he should take the medication and don’t refuse the treatment so that the risk of getting a potentially curable cancer would not increase.

The doctor also alleged that with the absence of the treatment, he would die. The doctor thought that bringing Ramirez into the

initial radiation therapy could calm his anxiety and can control his phobia, but it seems that his anxiety got only worst and the standard sedatives did not worked as expected.

In the process, Ramirez suffered panic attack and kept on crying the whole time. With this, Hoffman decided to make a different approach so Ramirez could overcome his fears. He then proposed that Ramirez should attend to Meditation classes. In the medical field, it is not just Hoffman, among all the doctors and physicians, who is suggesting that patients should undergo meditation procedures before battling the treatments to help cure the ailments, there are also famous individuals in various health departments that are allowing and recommending patients to see professional meditators to seek peace of mind.

Some of the patients that are suffering from much worse diseases, they are strongly advised to use alternative medication such as therapies. As the Archives of Internal Medicine researched; therapies, for a long period of time, has provided both emotional and physical relief to many patients having different sickness. There are so many forms of therapy that patients could use and choose for their own. These practices include yoga, meditation, acupuncture and so as other activities that affect the body as well as the mind.

Through experimental meditation, a lot of ailments are being treated with different meditation procedures. Procedures and techniques varying in the attention of details or focus on the

desired part of the body which is desired to be cured. Meditation is recognized as an alternative medication which the field of medicine has been focusing on building establishments and departments providing activities enabling the body and mind to become active.

Due to the fact that this kind of procedure is just experimental, how the meditation reacts would vary on the certain individual performing the type of meditation he chose to accomplish. This suggests that the chance of curing an ailment through this alternative medication is high when an individual execute the meditation properly.

Ramirez was sent to participate in such alternative medication. He rendered different types of meditation techniques, but the only meditation that really focused on was the breath watching method. After a few weeks, when his schedule for radiation treatment began, he was able to stay calm and be treated the whole time without panicking. He can totally say that his phobia was gone, allowing him to feel better during the treatment process.

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