Benefits of Meditation

Meditation is the practice of the mind and body to focus your attention on being mindful and in the moment. Use your breath and your mind to raise awareness, develop wellbeing and reduce stress and anxiety.

There are a few different types of meditation, each is a mindful practice: breathing-based meditation, mantra and spiritual meditation, nature-based visualization. Meditation can be practiced alone or in a group.

It’s all about training your mind to focus and redirect your habitual negative thoughts.

You can use meditation to enhance your awareness of your surroundings. This is great for improving concentration and reducing stress.

If you’re having a bad day, trust me, meditate and your mood will rapidly improve and your outlook on life will calm down. It is also good for self-discipline, a healthy sleeping pattern, and even tolerance to pain can be increased. (Remember a lot is in the mind). 

· To reduce stress is one of the most common reasons people try meditation.

· Control anxiety - Meditation can reduce stress levels, which translates to less anxiety.

· Promotes emotional health.

· Enhances self-awareness.

· Lengthens attention span.

· May reduce age-related memory loss.

· Can generate kindness.

· May help fight addictions.

· Improve sleep patterns

You can also manifest everything you desire through the power of meditation.

Control anxiety and stress levels

Meditation can reduce stress levels, which reduces anxiety.

If you're feeling anxious, worried, overwhelmed or fearful, mediation can slow down your thoughts by controlling your breathing, which calms the nervous system.

A study showed that 1,300 adults started doing meditation and it reduced their anxiety. The people with the highest levels of anxiety reduced the most (6Trusted Source).

A study shows after two months a person’s anxiety symptoms with generalized anxiety disorder, meditation helped improve positive self-reports, stress awareness and management (7Trusted Source).

Another study showed after a two-month meditation programme, the symptoms of people with chronic pain, anxiety and depression were reduced, (8Trusted Source).

Also, mindfulness and meditation exercises may reduce anxiety levels (9Trusted Source).

Regulate mood

Meditation can calm down how someone reacts to a stressful situation. It helps the brain realise the bigger picture and reduces the racing negative thoughts.  So, you can become a kinder person.

Help improve depression

A study showed people with depression undertook a yoga and meditation retreat for three months and the results showed that their mental health and depression massively improved, and their stress levels dropped.  

Improve memory and attention span

Studies have shown when meditating, more grey matter is produced which helps maintain healthy brain cognition. This protects the hippocampus which is responsible for memory learning and emotions. 

Addiction control

Studies have shown that meditation can control temptations by calming the mind and reducing anxiety levels, so people don’t feel like they need to use a substance to escape.

Improve sleep

Do you just lie there overthinking and just can’t get to sleep? If so, try meditation to calm all those racing thoughts rushing through your mind.

Studies have shown people’s quality of sleep improves. It can also help with insomnia and fatigue.