Meditation is referred to training your mind to get habitual to redirecting and focusing your thoughts. Read here to know how it can help improve your physical and mental health.
Meditation can help in reducing stress and anxiety
HIGHLIGHTS
- Meditation can help in improving memory
- It can help you get rid of addictions
- It can help in regulating blood pressure
Meditation is one of the most powerful medicine in existence. Benefits of meditation on physical and mental health are holistic and healing. Meditation is referred to training your mind to get habitual to redirecting and focusing your thoughts. This focus can be done on one single thought, on breathing deep, or listening to some spiritual or devotional mantra. Meditation can be done by quietly watching sunset. It can be done by redirecting your thoughts to nature or anything that calms your mind.
In his live video on Facebook, lifestyle coach Luke Coutinho says that meditation is also an attempt to increasing awareness of yourself and your surroundings.
Benefits of meditation
1. Stress
Meditation is the single-most effective technique of combating stress. Stress can contribute to various diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety to name a very few. Meditation reduces cortisol, the stress hormone, and teaches you to not react and respond to the stress in your life.
2. Anxiety
Anxiety is a result of chronic stress for a long period of time. Meditation will help in reducing your anxiety by training you to have a positive approach towards stress and stress causing situations.
3. Emotional health
Meditation helps you have access to your inner self and helps you recognise your emotions and accept them. Meditation can help you let go of emotions and also give you the capability to share them with your near and dear ones. You can use meditation as a tool to detoxify your heart and mind.
Meditation can help in reducing stress and anxiety
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4. Memory
Luke Coutinho says that it has been proven that people who meditate regularly tend to have better memory. Meditation helps calm down your brain and heals the chemicals messengers of the brain, thus improving memory and brain health.
5. Meditation generates kindness, forgiveness and tolerance
The essence of human nature is to love and be loved. Meditation helps you develop compassion for yourself. It helps you become a better person and takes away all the negativity from your life.
6. Addictions
If you are struggling to get over addictions, meditation can be of great help.
7. Sleep
Medication can help in improving your sleep. Meditating before sleeping helps in disconnecting your mind from the day. It helps you most from the sympathetic nervous system (stress) to the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest).
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8. Blood pressure
Studies have found beneficial effects of meditation on blood pressure. 10 to 15 minutes of meditation and deep breathing exercises every day can help in regulating blood pressure.
9. Glowing skin
Meditation can help in improving skin quality. Do it regularly to feel the difference.
10. Clarity
Meditation helps you have more clarity in your life. You will be able to more clear about your work, career, education, relationship and responsibilities. It will give you your long due happiness.
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