25/05/2020
10 Ways that Meditation is Benefical to your Health. 5-10 minutes daily
By Michael Reed Gach, PhD, Acupressurist..
During these turbulent times, meditation can be a great way to center yourself. Meditation trains your mind to focus, mentally relax, and develop concentration. You can also use it to develop a positive mood for decreasing your stress and help deal with pain.
1. Meditation Reduces Stress: Normally, your stress causes increased levels of the stress hormone called Cortisol which can release of inflammation-promoting chemicals called cytokines. This can disrupt sleep, promote depression and anxiety, increase blood pressure and contribute to fatigue and cloudy thinking.
2. Meditation Promotes Emotional Health can improve your self-image and apositive outlook on life. Research shows that maintaining an ongoing habit of meditation can maintain these benefits long term.
3. Meditation Enhances Self-Awareness and can develop a stronger understanding of yourself, helping you grow personally. Meditation can calm your nerves to help you develop a greater understanding of yourself which can support many other positive changes.
4. Meditation can Strengthen your Concentration and attention span. There are several types of meditation may build your ability to maintain attention.
5. Meditation can improve your Mental Clarity and keep your mind functioning at optimal levels. The improved focus you can gain through regular meditation may also increase memory and concentration.
6. Meditation can Foster Gratitude and Kindness. Meditation can also increase positive feelings and actions toward yourself and others; it can also increase empathy and compassion toward others.
7. Meditation is known to Improve Sleep. Millions of people struggle with insomnia. A variety of meditation techniques can help you relax and control the "runaway" thoughts that can interfere with sleep. This can shorten the time it takes to fall asleep and increase sleep quality.
8. Meditation helps Control Pain. Your perception of pain is connected to your state of mind. Meditation can diminish the perception of pain in the brain. This can relieve chronic pain when used as a supplement to medical care or physical therapy. This can be especially helpful as you recover from an injury.
9. Meditation can decrease Blood Pressure. Meditation can reduce strain on the heart. Blood pressure decreases not only during meditation, but also over time if you meditate regularly. This can reduce strain on the heart and arteries.
10. You Can Meditate Anywhere and it doesn't require specialized equipment or space. You can start by practicing just a few minutes daily. There are two major styles of meditation:
Focused-Attention Meditation: Concentrates attention on a single object, thought, sound or visualization. It emphasizes ridding your mind of attention and distraction. Meditation may focus on breathing, a mantra or a calming sound.
Open-Mind Meditation welcomes a broad flow of awareness of all aspects of your environment, train of thought and sense of self. It may include becoming aware of thoughts, feelings or impulses that you might normally try to suppress.
Meditation can easily improve your mental and emotional health. You can do it anywhere, without special equipment. There's a great variety of styles, each with different strengths and benefits. Trying out a style of meditation suited to your goals is a great way to improve your quality of life with just 5 to 10 minutes a day.
