World Meditation Day 2023: 7 reasons why daily practice is essential

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.

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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.