Meditation helps in improving the Memory, Creativity and relieves Stress. It is proven to be an effective way of enhancing the quality of life by improving physical, mental, and emotional well being. Research oten provides new insights into the effects of meditation on the mind/body. It’s not just one particular method that has proven to be helpful either – benefits have been shown in the practice of a variety of techniques.
Medittaion provides many health benefits
- Improves mood and working memory – even under stress.
- Alleviate mental distractions. Meditation also has positive effects and reduces the symptoms of some mental disorders. Anxiety and depression are all marked by an increase in distracting or otherwise unwanted thoughts. Meditation trains the mind to free itself from destructive thought patterns.
- Increase the size of your brain. Meditating actually causes your brain to grow. However, age tends to cause thinning in the frontal-cortex. We all grow older and experience these effects. Without proper mental exercise, the gray matter responsible for language, cognition, and emotional processing gradually degrades. This degradation has the potential to leave us with a higher risk of declining cognitive ability.
- Regular Meditation slows thinning of brain tissue. Meditation is also responsible for thickening parts of the brain associated with attention, and working memory – crucial areas that are linked with intelligence. The gains in cognitive performance, experienced through brief periods of meditation, seem to show a positive relationship between meditation and improved knowledge.
- Enhance the strength of your immune response
- Alleviate symptoms caused by sickness We all know that stress influences the ability of our immune systems to fight off disease; which may be why meditation helps improve the symptoms from a broad range of conditions, such as – Heart disease, High blood pressure, Cancer, Asthma, Allergies Meditation can have a positive impact on many health related issues. It should be noted that. Meditation should not replace any recommendation provided by your doctor though it might be worth considering as a complement to traditional medicine.
- Decrease Fatigue. Meditation might be a better stimulant for you than a cup of coffee. If you find yourself in need of a midday nap, or just didn’t get enough sleep the night before, it might be time for a meditation break. Several studies have shown a link between meditation and mental alertness. Sometimes meditation can act as a replacement for sleep, with higher gains in performance.
- Meditation can help reduce the impact of physical and emotional pain
Meditation can reduce the direct experience of physical pain up to 50%. Beyond physical pain, chronic pain can have a negative impact on emotional well being. Through meditation, people have learned how to respond to pain in a healthier manner. Training the mind allows the opportunity of a choice about how you will experience the present. Learning that you are in control of your response, and training yourself to do so, can have a significant impact on how you experience physically as well as emotional pain.
- Getting into a state of flow: The state of flow has been described in many different ways, Generally reflects the same experience. Flow consists of a peaceful state with positive qualities; that leads to a high state of being. When the characteristics of flow are described, it’s clear how the flow is synonymous with a meditative state. Losing yourself in the activity, intuitively knowing what you’re going to do next, reacting spontaneously and purposefully to present circumstances, being unaware of the passage of time and confidence in your ability to face challenges; these are all feelings which accompany a state of flow.
- Improve your powers of empathy
- Attain enlightenment: Enlightenment is possibly the end-all of spiritual aspiration. This elusive attainment has kept philosophers and spiritual seekers contemplating the mysteries of the world for thousands of years. Achieving enlightenment is supposed to reveal the underlying nature of reality to those who attain it. Those who attain it describe it as the greatest paradox one could imagine, but also freeing and expansive.
What is Transidental Meditation TM and its value in daily life?
- Extensive peer-reviewed published research on the TM technique has found a wide range of wellness benefits including:
- greater inner calm throughout the day
- reduced cortisol (the “stress hormone.”
- normalized blood pressure
- overcome insomnia
- lower risk of heart attack and stroke
- reduced anxiety and depression
- improved brain function and memor.