Meditation and Drug Free Living
Regular relaxation or meditation of any kind improves health, stress release, efficiency, intuition, creativity, longevity and performance.
Take up meditation...get a natural high...be in the state of divine drunkenness !!!
Though the benefits of meditation are multifold, some important ones are listed down here:
Physical benefits
- Good for people with high blood pressure
- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
- Decreases respiratory rate
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate
- Decreases muscle tension
- Relaxes nervous system
- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis, etc,.
- Reduces Pre-menstrual syndrome symptoms
- Helps in post-operative healing
- Enhances the immune system
- Reduces activity of viruses
- Enhances energy, strength and vigour
- Helps to maintain healthy weight
- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular diseases
- Decreases the aging process
- Reduces pain in chronic diseases
- Cures headaches and migraines
- Reduces need for medical care - so it's time to move from medication to meditation!
- Improves performance in sports activities
- Harmonizes endocrine system
- Increases productivity
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Mental benefits
- Removes mental stress which is the root cause for many illnesses
- Builds self-confidence
- Increases serotonin level, enhances mood and behaviour
- Brings clarity in the mind
- Resolves phobias and fears
- Assists in orderliness of brain functioning
- Helps control own thoughts
- Helps with focus and concentration
- Increases creativity
- Increases brain wave coherence
- Improves learning ability and memory
- Increases feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
- Improves emotional stability
- Improves relationships
- Mind ages at a slower rate
- Assists in coming out of any addictions
- Develops intuition
- Enables to see the larger picture in a given situation
- Increases alertness
- Reduces sleep time
- Decreases restless thinking
- Helps make more accurate judgements
- Gives composure to act in constructive ways
Spiritual benefits
- Helps in enlightenment / self-realization
- Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of mind, happiness
- Helps you discover your purpose
- Increases compassion
- Gives deeper understanding of yourself and others
- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
- Changes attitude towards life
- Helps living in the present moment
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
- Makes you experience the sense of 'Oneness'
- Increases sense of responsibility
- Brings personal transformation
With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?!”
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