Since the past years more and more people are talking about how beneficial meditation is. Do you want to know what of this is really true and backed up by science? Perfect, here are you at the right place.
Until now, more than thousand studies have shown benefits of meditation. In this article you will get insights on the most important studies. You will be surprised to read on how many levels meditation has an impact on your mental and physical health. Here you see 25 science-based benefits of meditation, which are explained in this article.
25 Science-based Benefits of Meditation:
Meditation Reduces Stress
Increases the Quality of Sleep
Increases Attention Span
Improves the Quality of Relationships
Decreases Substance Abuse
Reduces Anxiety
Generates Kindness
Controls Pain
Decreases Blood Pressure
Reduces Age Related Memory Loss
Enhances Self Awareness
Promotes Emotional Health and Well-being
Enhances Empathy
Improves Problem Solving and Decision-making Ability
Reduces Aggression
Reduces Depression
Decreases Chronical Diseases
Improves Learning and Memory
Reduces Risk of Heart Diseases and Stroke
Boosts Immune System
Increases Feelings of Compassion
Decreases Feelings of Worry
Decreases Feelings of Loneliness
Reduces Emotional Eating
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1. Meditation Reduces Stress
To understand what meditation can do against stress, we first have a closer look to what Stress actually is: Stress is the result of past experiences, unresolved traumata, painful experiences, negative thinking, inner conflicts and emotional pain. Being more specific: Stress is the physical feeling of the activated Fight-Flight-Freeze-mechanism of the nervous system. In this mechanism the body is ready to either fight, escape or freeze to face death. The whole energy of the body goes into the muscles, which are ready to act. The heart beats faster and stronger to deliver as much oxygen as possible and the body is fully alert for anything happening in your surrounding, so you can act as quickly as possible. In this state all energy, also by the Immune-system and by the part of the body being responsible for healing, is needed and taken. The short term result is that the immune system is inhibited due to cortisol. Thus, the immune system is not able to perform well The long term result is that the body is completely out of balance, unable to recover.
2. Meditation Increases the Quality of Sleep
Sleep issues come from:
Stress
There are many stuffs in your life. Job, Family, Friend, Money etc.. those things always distract our mind. when we have to solve problems from those, Sometimes we get serious Stress from that which cause different kinds of disease. and it connect to Insomnia.
Worry
‘What if I fail the test?’, ‘What if I have made a mistake?’, ‘What if my secret comes out?’, ‘What if something bad happen to me?’ All the worries start from ‘What if’. That’s true. Most of the worries is about supposition is not true. Let’s face it! All the worries that stop us from living present is fake. we don’t know it will happen or not and even though it happens, Having worries even before something happens would rather than No worries, just face it when it happens? We must get out of the prison of worry!
Meditation can be the answer
To get rid of those stresses and worries, We have to realize how those things are useless and fake. Meditation can lead you let go of those stresses and worries and realize that you have been controlled. and if you realize it, Insomnia will go away.
3. Increases Attention Span
What is the serious cause of low attention span? It is definitely a variety o thoughts that make us leak out of the way. Meditation is letting go of your distracting thoughts. By doing meditation, we can eliminate all the thoughts that stop us from concentrating on present. Take a chance to get high attention span
4. Improves the Quality of Relationship
What is the best way to establish good relationship with others? It is very hard to say. Maybe you need honesty or Sincereness or money or kindness or delicacy or confident or sensible… Actually it is going to be very different from every situations. What’s the solution, then? What If we can be always wise in the all different situations? What if we always can be objective perspective? then, we can truly understand other’s perspective and we can cope with relationship in best way.
How can we get those ability? Meditation is key for those faculties. Meditation help us to let go of our subjective perspective which stop us from seeing world as objective perspective. and when we get rid of our subjective things, we can be always objective and when we become objective person, we can be wise.
5. Decrease Substance Abuse
What is the reason of Substance Abuse? There can be various reasons. mental empty and unsatisfactory that never be filled, chronic anxiety and melancholy. Where these feelings come from? It is from our mind. Our mind world consists of endless desire. even though you have made a big satisfaction, our mind wants more pleasure, power, money, fame which cannot be satisfied forever.
Meditation can let you to control your various desires to be stable. It makes your excessive desires gone and help you to realize how our desires are useless, painful and toxic.
6. Reduces the Anxiety
Most Anxieties come from worries about uncertain future. actually we don’t need to worry about something. If there is we can do for the future, just do what can do, but if there is nothing we can do, we don’t need to care about it. Worries is , in any cases, very useless. we have to go out of it.
Also, Anxieties come from customary reason, Because of experiences of past, Our body remember and get used to anxiety. that’s why sometimes we are anxious without reasons.
To get rid of those worries and unprovoked anxieties, We have to realize how those things are useless and fake. Meditation can help you let go of those worries realize that you have been controlled and even eliminate chronic anxieties by let go of all the memories that body remembers.
7. Decreases blood-pressure
One of the big cause of high blood-pressure is stress. when you’re getting a stressful moment, Your body makes a extreme increase of hormones. These hormones temporarily escalate your blood pressure by encouraging your heart to beat faster and your blood vessels to narrow.
Meditation can reduce stressful moments of your life and help to stay on calm and stable by eliminating all the causes which make a variety of stresses.
8. Improves Problem Solving and Decision-making Ability.
What is the most important elements for problem solving and decision-making ability. We would suggest that it should be strong mental qualities like being calm, wise and being objective perspective.
Meditation is key for those faculties. Meditation help us to let go of our subjective perspective which stop us from seeing world as objective perspective. and when we get rid of our subjective things, we can be always objective and when we become objective person, we can be calm and wise. then, we could make right decisions.
9. Reduces Depression
Where does depression come from? There are many reason that depression is made. Dissatisfaction, Having a tendency to worry a lot, low self-esteem, being sensitive to personal criticism, or are self-critical and negative. In other words, Depression comes from mental
Why is Meditation a Game Changer regarding Stress?
Meditation let you get out of the Fight-Flight-Freeze-Mode by deeply realising the constructed nature of stress and letting it go. You unrevel from stress and become truly free from it.
Then you can really feel what it means to be truly relaxed and at ease, because you can feel when your body releases and regenerates on a deep level.
You wanna have some proof? In a study of 3252 Participants,
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