Benefits of Meditation

Benefits of meditation

Meditation, a mind-body exercise, is done for being relaxed. It helps to develop a strong mind. Taking less than 20 minutes of meditation with a few light exercises or yoga is strongly recommended to relieve stress and exhaustion. It develops with thousands of years of history and spiritual motivation.

Modern science has established that meditation is a healthy and relaxing daily practice. There are many beneficial effects of meditation.

It has good effects on our mind as well as on our body. But spending a little time from our daily life is difficult due to our misconceptions, confusions and lack of strong motivation to meditate. Busy daily life is also responsible for it. But if we try a little, we can overcome all of these things and be strongly motivated to meditate. So, let’s try to find some important beneficial effects of meditation.

Meditation! A way to flow your thinking. Art to find the inner sight of yourself. A culture of having a long history. A spiritual bonding, invented by ancient philosophers. It has many significant positive effects on our mind and body.

 

Mental benefits

• It sharpens the mind: Meditation causes the flow of your thinking beyond your life. During meditation, you see everything in a nonjudgmental way. It will help you to sharpen your mind by gaining focus and expanding your thoughts.
• Get rid of anxiety: Some experts advise doing meditation at night before sleeping. Because it helps to get rid of stress and you can have a sound sleep. If you do meditation in the morning, it will also be helpful for you. Some meditation practitioners take a meditation break for few minutes during their work time.
• Emotional stability: It helps us to be strong and confident. An emotionally unstable person should take meditation for mental stability. Meditation teaches us to flow our mind as well as strong mindfulness to get rid of its hindrances.
• Improves self-acceptance: When we meditate, we become more conscious and more capable of controlling our thinking. An essential part of meditation is noticing our thoughts without judging them or getting caught up in their stories. It helps us to develop a different perspective on our internal conversations. It develops a greater understanding of ourselves. And the practice of noticing our thoughts and feelings without absorbing the meaning or judgment to them. It causes positive feelings about us.
• It makes us self confidant: Our confidence is built on the stories about ourselves. So, meditation helps us to develop self-acceptance as well as to develop our self-confidence. When negative thoughts or feelings about ourselves come up during meditation, we practice simply noticing them at the moment. Don’t try to modify them. We act like confidant at that time.
• Creativity increases: A meditation practitioner meditates to identify and accept his or her thoughts. It is a limitless mind exercise. It increases our creativity.
• It improves our concentration: Meditation is an exercise that depends upon your concentration. Without a concentrated mind, you cannot be meditated. It helps us increase our concentration in other works and focus on the job until its end.
• Happiness increase: Meditation relaxes our feelings and life. It helps to remove stress and be confident. Therefore, the usual activity of a meditation practitioner is improved, happiness increase in their life.
• Intuition develops: Perception and instinct develop by meditation. People become well conscious about their surroundings.
• Gain clarity and a peaceful mind: By meditation, we gain clarity. During meditation practice, we think about our deeds and their fates and decide to do good works. Thus clarity of our mind develops, and it brings calm to our mind.
• An expanded consciousness without sharpness can lead to a lack of action/progress. It helps with planning.
• The balance of a sharp mind and an expanded consciousness brings perfection too.
• More Compassion: Empathy and compassion are higher in those who practice meditation regularly.
• Better memory: Meditation improves our memory. It is an exercise of our mind which plays with our memory.
• Positive attitude: If anyone meditates regularly may find that he or she have improved self-esteem and a more positive outlook on life.
• Helps in phobia: People with fears or phobias may be helped by meditation since the mind-body practice is thought to help anyone resolve their internal problems.

There are more beneficial effects of meditation on our mind. But the basic concept is, it relaxes our mind and relieves us from stress.

Physical benefits

With meditation, the physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with more energy because it causes increased oxygen inhalation and blood circulation in our body. This result in joy, peace, enthusiasm as the level of prana (energy) in the body increases.

It causes-

1. Improves mood and behaviour: Some study shows meditation causes releases of serotonin which improves our mood and behaviour. This is because it acts as an antidepressant.

2. Decrease tension related headache: Meditation relieves us from stress and decreases tension-related pains such as headaches, ulcers, insomnia etc.
3. Relieve from musculoskeletal pain: Meditation has a strong effect on anxiety neurosis and some neurological pains. In addition, it helps adult and peri-menopausal females to get rid of fibromyalgia-like muscle and joint problem.
4. Reduce blood lactate: Meditation in the aerobic environment, even deep breathing in the home environment causes increase oxygenation of blood in lungs and increases blood supply to tissue, which causes reduction of producing lactic acid, which is a predisposing factor of an anxiety attack.
5. It improves our immune system: Some study shows regular muscle relaxation helps to increased immunity against cancer. It increases our immunity by increased blood supply too.
6. Increases the energy level as you gain an inner source of energy
7. Lowers the blood pressure: In a study at Harvard Medical School, meditation causes less stress hormone responsiveness, which helps to decrease blood pressure.
8. Act as an anti-inflammatory mediator: Stress leads to inflammation closely linked to heart disease, arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions such as psoriasis. Relaxation helps to prevent and treat these symptoms by switching off the stress response. For example, a McGill University of Canada study proved that daily meditation practices clinically improve psoriasis symptoms.
9. Helps in IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome): IBS is a somatoform disorder. It is of a psychogenic origin. Meditation practising two times din a day has a significant positive effect on controlling irritable bowel syndrome symptoms.
10. Prevent infertility: In the modern world, women often suffer from chronic stress, resulting in many possible hormonal imbalances, including adrenal depletion, thyroid over or under function and shifts in sexual hormone balance, resulting in sexual dysfunction. Trying to become pregnant can add even more pressure to already stressed women, which again affects the average hormone balance. In addition, it can result in significant conception problems, reported in femalefirst.co.uk.

Male genital organ erection and ejaculation of sperm occur by a neuro-psychological mechanism. So, this stressful modern life also affects men’s usual sexual habit and function and takes part in infertility. So stress is one of the main key factors for infertility in the modern world. Meditation helps to get rid of it and helps to prevent infertility.

11. Helps in chronic illness: Meditation helps with chronic diseases by lowering stress levels, leading to an ill mind and body.
12. Helps in insomnia: Meditation help us to establish a good sleep cycle. Sleep disturbance or insomnia is a common problem. Meditation relaxes us and makes us calm. It also decreases anxiety and may cause sound sleep.

There are more physical benefits of meditations.

 

Other benefits

- It cleanses and nourishes you and calms you whenever you feel overwhelmed, unstable, or emotionally shut down.

- When you meditate, you are in the space of broadness, calmness and joy, and this is what you give out into the environment, bringing harmony to the planet.

- With meditation into daily life, your consciousness increases and, in time, can experience the upper and new states of consciousness.

- Meditation can bring about a true personal transformation. As you learn more about yourself, you’ll naturally want to discover more about the mystery of life, this universe, etc.

-The confluence of knowledge, understanding and practice makes life complete.

-When you grow into higher states of consciousness, you become beautiful yet strong.

 

Social benefits

1. It helps to make a community: All meditation practitioners bear the same thoughts that bring them close. Usually, they establish a new community. Meditation classes and retreats also improve social communications.
2. Opportunity to learn: It helps and gives us opportunities to learn about different parts and society by arranging meditation retreats.
3. Economic support: It is helpful to create an active population that ensures the highest service. It is very much supportive of our economy.
4. Healthy population: By practising or starting a tradition of meditation in a society, can act as preventive medicine.

There are hundreds of beneficial effects of meditation. But the important thing is, we have to be motivated and start a regular practice of meditation.

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Dr. Hasan Ebna Amin