The fact that Meditation is highly beneficial is no secret, people have been reaping the rewards for centuries, and is often recommended as a means to managing stress, anxiety and depression. Thousands of studies have been done, showing the positive impact meditation has on your health and wellbeing, we've chosen 15 reasons from the incredibly long list of benefits, to start meditating today.
1) Reduce Stress Generally, within a few minute of meditating, you can feel the mind start to slow and the weight of the world begin to lift from your shoulders. Meditation reduces the body's production of stress chemicals, directly affecting the central nervous system.
2) Improve Concentration Being that meditation is concentration, we can carry the skills learned into everyday life. When your attention wanders through the day, you can take note of it then take your attention back to where it's needed.
3) Increased Self-awareness We have so many thoughts running through our mind, from those we are well aware of, to some we are not fully conscious of. Meditation allows us to focus on just one thought, and better understand how we truly feel about it.
4) Increased Acceptance Of yourself and others. By meditating daily, you begin to see a new positive image of yourself, and the opinions of others become of less value and ultimately dismissed. Self-acceptance has a ripple effect, accepting yourself makes you more open to accepting other as they truly are.
5) Slows Aging A daily meditation practice slows down the biological clock, by reducing the body's production of free radicals. Free radicals cause tissue damage, disease and aging. Meditation brightens the skin and reduces wrinkles and age spots.
6) Improve Cardiovascular and Immune Health Meditation is relaxing and when we relax, we slow our heart and breathing rate, and stimulate blood flow. This reduces the production of stress chemicals, helps the body eliminate free radicals, and lowers blood pressure. As a result, we strengthen the immune system and contributes to a healthier cardiovascular system.
7) Increase Happiness Well, with everything else meditation can achieve, it's really no surprise those who meditate are happier than those who don't. With better sleep, less stress and a better understanding of your true self, who wouldn't be happier?
8) Encourages a Healthy Lifestyle When you practice meditation daily, you become better equipped to slow down the mind and really think before you act. For example, we are better equipped to resist a craving for unhealthy food and instead opt for something more nourishing.
9) Manage weight Meditation allows you to confront your thoughts, feelings, self love, and perceptions. With a better understanding of why weight has been an issue and challenging any limiting thoughts that are stopping you from reaching your goal.
10) Improve Sleep Patterns Meditating before you go to sleep, can help you to fall asleep faster and remain asleep. By relaxing and clearing the mind and body, you are better able to sleep deeper and more restful all night long.
11) Increase Serotonin Production Meditation can help to balance neurotransmitters in the brain, including balancing the production of serotonin and dopamine, the two most common chemical imbalances associated with depression and anxiety.
12) Increase Energy Meditation gives you a burst of energy when you start to tire through the day. Taking a few minutes to pause, focus and balance out the energy flow in the body, has an amazing way of re energising you for the rest of the day.
13) Improve Mental Health Relaxing reduces production of stress chemicals in the body, which in itself has a massive impact on mental health. Not to mention the impact of a good night's sleep, increased energy, self love and a healthy diet have on your mental health, all of which can be achieved meditating.
14) Improve Creativity By clearing the mind of unnecessary, scattered thoughts blocking our creativity. We can open up our mind to new possibilities and discovering what we are really capable of achieving in many forms of expression.
15) Develop/ Improve Intuition The heightened consciousness achieved in meditation, naturally increases your spiritual attunement and intuition. connecting with your intuition is highly beneficial, as it gives you the most valuable solutions in life.
With countless modern studies backing up the positive impact meditation has on our health and wellbeing, why wait any longer? Begin your meditation practise today!
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