Meditation effectively strengthens self-healing, cognitive and behavioral development among autistic children.
Research results indicate that mantra meditation is a feasible intervention for children between 3 and 14 years of age, to improve health outcomes in ASD.
Meditation is a conscious process of self-regulation that tempers the flow of thoughts, emotions and automatic behaviors in the body and mind.
Meditation moves from a state of duality (duality causes conflicts) to singularity or harmony.
Heightened brain synchronicity is the most frequently observed effect in these practices.
Positive subjective accounts of meditative experiences with children, adolescents and adults indicate better coping skills, less pain, improved mood and stronger immunity.
Furthermore, meditation improves breathing patterns, and studies showing changes in hormone levels confirm the ability of meditation to change physiological parameters and rhythms.
The restorative mechanisms of the body are strengthened and down-regulate the uncontrolled function for survival.
Life-promoting hormones (like the human growth factor) are secreted.
It is likely that meditation in young children, notably boys, may reduce symptoms of autism by increasing the release of oxytocin in their brains.