This World Meditation Day, get to know the benefits of meditation and how meditating every day will improve your physical and mental health – By Mahasweta Sarkar.
The benefits of meditating are more than you think. More known as a concentration-increasing and stress-reduction technique, meditation has other benefits like improving the sleep cycle and controlling blood pressure.
Here are 7 benefits of meditation that will make you want to meditate daily.
1. Stress reduction:
Mental and physical stress increases levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Meditation helps to control the effects of cortisol and helps to evade stress-triggered medical conditions.
2. Controls anxiety:
Studies suggest that mindfulness and meditation exercises may reduce anxiety, especially job-related anxiety. Habitual meditation can improve stress reactivity and coping skills.
3. Self-awareness:
Meditation can help identify thoughts that may be harmful or self-defeating. Self-inquiry and related styles of meditation can help a person know themselves better.
4. Increases attention span:
Research shows that people practising meditation on a daily basis perform better on visual tasks and have a greater attention span.
5. Help to fight addiction:
By increasing self-control and awareness of triggers for addictive behaviours, meditation helps to fight addiction problems.
6. Decreases blood pressure:
Meditation helps to reduce strain on the heart and helps people prevent heart diseases. Daily meditation is mandatory for high blood pressure and heart patients.
7. Improves sleep:
Mindfulness-based meditation can help insomniacs improve their sleep cycle. Meditation helps to relax your body, releases tension and places you in a peaceful state more likely to make you fall asleep.
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