Benefits of Meditation

What Are The Benefits of Meditation?

The benefits of meditation are endless and totally personal to you the person who is doing the meditation. There are different forms of meditation and everyone has their own unique style of finding their “quiet” place if you will. Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the conditioned, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of self-awareness or consciousness.

Here are some of the many benefits of meditation

Physiological benefits of meditation:

• Increases blood flow and slows the heart rate
• Enhances energy and strength
• Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
• Cures headaches and migraines
• Decreases the aging process
• Helps in chronic diseases like allergies and arthritis
• Decreases muscle tension
• Leads to a deep level of physical relaxation
• Harmonizes the endocrine system
• Results in easier breathing
• Makes you sweat less
• Reduces need for medical care
• Normalizes your ideal weight
• Produces lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
• Can cure infertility
• Helps with weight loss
• Enhances the immune system
• Reduces PMS
• Reduces anxiety attacks
• Gives relief from asthma
• Makes you more incline to play sports and be active

Psychological benefits of meditation:

• Helps control thoughts
• Increased creativity
• Builds self-confidence
• Increases serotonin levels which influence mood and behavior
• Improves relationships
• Improved learning ability and memory
• Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
• Helps develop will power
• Helps you to ignore petty issues
• Increases listening skills and empathy
• Requires less time to fall asleep
• Helps in quitting smoking and alcohol or drug addiction
• Helps make more accurate judgments
• Lessens aggressiveness
• Decreases restless thinking
• Decreased tendency to worry
• Purifies your character
• Higher intelligence growth rate
• Decrease in potential mental illness
• Increase in job satisfaction
• Gives you the ability to see the larger picture in any given situation
• Makes it easier to remove bad habits
• Can help develop intuition
• Improves communication between the two brain hemispheres

Spiritual benefits of meditation

• Helps keeps things in perspective
• Provides peace of mind and happiness
• Helps to discover your purpose
• Increased compassion
• Deeper level of spiritual relaxation
• Changes attitudes towards life
• Creates deeper relationship with your own God
• Helps attain enlightenment
• Helps with living in the present moment
• Creates a widening and deepening capacity for love
• Experience a sense of “oneness”
• Increases the synchronicity in your life
• Helps to learn forgiveness
• Growing wisdom
• Brings body, mind, and spirit into harmony
• Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego

The benefits of meditation for me are mainly the very last one that I mentioned. Meditation gives me the benefit of seeing the world for what it really is instead of seeing it through my ego. My ego likes to tell me what is important and not important. When I can get past my ego and see the world through a deeper level of consciousness or through my spirit than I can see what really matters and really make my present day different. When I connect with the spirit in all things instead of connecting to what my ego tells me is important I can be a much healthier, happier, helpful, and peaceful human being.

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Sources:

http://www.tm.org/benefits-of-meditation