Benefits of Meditation
By the health benefits of meditation, it’s popularity is increasing day by day. Meditation is a process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts.
Meditation is the way to reduce stress and develop concentration. Practice of meditation develops other beneficial habits and feelings, like a positive mood and outlook, self-discipline, healthy sleep patterns and even increased pain tolerance.
Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Meditation is the best practice to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Stress hormones can disrupt sleep, promote depression and anxiety, increase blood pressure and many more.
According to studies a mindfulness meditation can reduc the inflammation response caused by stress.
Age-Related Memory Loss
Meditation can improve the attention and clarity of thinking, which may keep your mind young. Kirtan Kriya is a method of meditation that improves the ability to perform memory tasks in multiple studies of age-related memory loss. Meditation can partially improve memory in patients with dementia.
Addictions
Meditation gives you the mental discipline, which may help you break dependencies by increasing your self-control and awareness of triggers for addictive behaviors. Meditation redirect the attention, increases willpower, controls emotions and increase the understanding of the causes behind their addictive behavior.
Good Sleep
Many people aree struggling with insomnia. According to studies, Meditated people fall asleep sooner and stayed asleep longer, compared to those who didn’t meditate. Meditation helps to control the thoughts that often lead to insomnia and relax the body, release tension and makes you to fall asleep soon.
Pain
Meditation increases the activity in the brain centers known to control pain and less sensitivity to pain. According to studies meditation decreased the complaints of chronic or intermittent pain. It also helps the people with terminal diseases mitigate chronic pain at the end of life.