There are so many advantages to meditation, you owe it to yourself to give it a try.
Below is a list of just some of the benefits that meditation can provide you with:
Physiological benefits:
- Lowers oxygen consumption.
- Decreases respiratory rate.
- Increases blood flow
- Slows the heart rate.
- Increases exercise tolerance.
- Leads to a deeper level of relaxation
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate
- Decreases muscle tension
- Reduces PMS symptoms.
- Helps in post-operative healing.
- Enhances the immune system.
- Reduces activity of viruses and distress
- Enhances energy, strength and vigor.
- Helps with weight loss
- Reduction of free radicals, tissue damage
- Higher skin resistance
- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
- Decreases aging process
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Psychological benefits:
- Builds self-confidence.
- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
- Resolve phobias and fears
- Helps with focus and concentration
- Increase creativity
- Improved learning ability and memory.
- Increased vitality and rejuvenation.
- Increased emotional stability.
- Mind ages at slower rate
- Easier to remove bad habits
- Develops intuition
- Increased productivity
- Improved relations at home and work
- Helps ignore petty issues
- Increased ability to solve complex problems
- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
- React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
- Increased job satisfaction
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Spiritual benefits:
- Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of mind, happiness
- Helps you discover your purpose
- Increased self-actualization
- Increased compassion
- Growing wisdom
- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
- Increased acceptance of oneself
- Helps learn forgiveness
- Changes attitude toward life
- Helps living in the present moment
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
- Increases synchronicity in your life
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