The Power Of Meditation

Inspired by the ancient Buddhist practice of meditation, experts developed a new version of meditation to combat stress called mindfulness meditation. Its guiding principle is to learn to live the moment and to train the brain to stop focusing on past traumas or future stresses. Practitioners claim mindfulness meditation reduces stress and anxiety, and now researchers are backing them up by showing that there are many tangible benefits.

Relieve Stress & Anxiety

This is the most common benefit of meditation. Stress and anxiety result when our perceived demands are higher than our personal and social resources to reach that demand. When we are stressed out, our bodies produce a hormone called cortisol, which is responsible for so many of the most common negative side effects associated with stress. Cortisol can impair the memory, increase the blood pressure and disrupt sleep, all of which can make you feel fatigued and unmotivated. Cortisol can also lead to depression and chronic anxiety. However, mindfulness meditation effectively deals with stress by giving us space and the clarity to organize our priorities and arrange the demands on our minds. Consequently, it decreases the negative side effects of cortisol production.  A study which examined over 1200 participants showed that regular meditation lowers stress more than common medical or psychological treatment.

Improves Health Greatly

Experts believe that meditation promotes physical and mental health. Meditation literally changes the brain and increases the levels of alpha waves which contributes to reducing the feelings of tension, sadness, depression,  and anger. Recently, researchers found that meditation densifies grey matter in regions associated with learning, memory processing and emotion regulation. A study conducted in 2013 found that the brain of daily meditators become thicker and more active in the regions that control the memory. This means that regular meditators don't only recover memories faster but also store information much more efficiently. Furthermore,  Meditation is shown to help control the blood pressure and enhance the variability of heart rate. This actually plays a crucial role in duly transferring oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout our bodies, and leads to boost the immune function.  The best example of this was shown by a study where a group of researchers examined the immune function of meditators versus non-meditators by giving them the flu virus. Meditators produced much more antibodies than the other group.

Meditation undoubtedly is one of the best ways to improve your health, so avoid 'Medication', try 'Meditation'.

Promotes Spiritual Growth

Meditation creates a permanent link between our internal and external worlds. It stimulates the body and benefits all aspects of the conscious and subconscious layers of the mind. It brings your complete attention to the present moment and makes you focus exclusively on where you are and who you are. This will help you to connect with your senses and emotions, and give you a deeper understanding of yourself. Then, you'll gradually start discovering more about yourself and love yourself. This will increases happiness, enhances clarity and drives peace of mind. Being in a meditative state, you are in a vast space of serenity, calmness and delight and this will bring harmony to the planet, helps to merge with the infinite, and understanding yourself as an integral part of the vast cosmos.

Increase Attention

For most people, the hardest thing about meditation is keeping your mind away from constantly thinking about your work and all of your responsibilities, that it can be difficult to focus on simple things, like your breath or the present moment. However,  the daily practice of mindfulness meditation can boost your focus and increase your productivity. A study conducted in 2017 found that meditation greatly improves concentrative skills' speed and performance, as it actually increases your attention span on certain things, so you'll be clear-headed to refocus your mind on work.

Do you want to be happier, healthier and more peaceful than you are now?  Meditating  is certainly worth a shot; just a few minutes of meditation will make a big difference.