Meditation is a practice where an individual incorporates certain techniques such as mindfulness, focusing on a particular object or picture or a candle flame to train attention and alertness to achieve a calm and stable state of mind. Meditation is a way which has the ability to give you calm, peace and balance that benefit your emotional well-being and overall health. This is a simple way to train your mind to be alert towards you and your surroundings which will further give benefits of positive mood, self-discipline, healthy sleep pattern and even increased pain tolerance.
Our hectic lives and exhausting jobs can have a negative impact on our health mentally as well as physically. Even people who cannot create balance between their personal and professional life are more prone to psychological disorders caused by stress and frustration. Here also meditation can help them to fight with their psychological disorder and make their mind calm and peaceful.
There are lots of benefits of inculcating ourselves into mediation on a daily basis. You may experience some or other kind of juggling in handling the thought process at the initial level of practice. However, gradually you will learn to handle the thought process and pattern which will help you to create calm surrounding around you. One good side of meditation is that there is no hard and fast rule of doing it or even there is no need of formal training which gives ease to laymen to develop meditation practice on a daily basis. Just you need a calm corner of your home, balcony, or even you can try out at your office space. In case you cannot find a calm corner you can try out with some good spiritual music, and you are ready to go with meditation and just focus on your breathing though there are lots of thoughts but when you focus on your breathing, slowly you can wean off from thoughts and feel energetic.
Some of the health benefits of doing regular practice of meditation are:
1 Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Meditation can reduce stress level and anxiety which is caused due to mental and physical disorder which increases stress hormone cortisol which further creates disrupted sleep cycle, promotes depression and anxiety, increases blood pressure and contributes to fatigue and cloudy thinking. In all these conditions, meditation has proved its benefits in improving and treating them. In 8 week of study, researchers have found that a meditation style called “mindfulness meditation” reduced the inflammatory response caused by stress.
One of the research conducted by the University of Wisconsin, researchers found that the part of the brain that regulates stress and anxiety shrinks when meditation is practiced consistently due to physiological effects on the brain.
2 Improve Sleep
Insomnia or disrupted sleep cycle is a troubling condition. Nearly half the population has experienced sleepless nights at some point of their life span. Sometimes it may be occasional or chronic. If you are one of those who have sleep deprivation and are spending the night staring at the ceiling and counting sheep all night to no avail, then mediation just might be the solution for you.
3 Enhance Self Awareness
Meditation may also help you develop a strong understanding of yourself, helping you grow into your best self. Living in the past or future is not a true sense of living life with self-awareness. Meditation can help you to develop to calm your thought process, and you can live in the present by controlling unnecessary thought, and you can live your life to the fullest. You can try out different forms of meditation which will help you to recognize harmful thoughts, and you can try to release them.
Additionally, your experience during the mediation may develop better problem-solving skills.
4 Enhance Long Time Productivity
When you have a productive day, you will feel at ease. Meditation can help you to become more productive and focused on your work. When you do meditation, you concentrate on only one thing, which is usually nothing, or you can focus on breathing. So daily practice will help you focus better on your task and stay connected with your work for a longer period of time without destructive thought.
Beside these, there are lots of other benefits of doing meditation on a regular basis. Let’s see some form of meditation which you can use on a daily basis as per your need.
Mindfulness Meditation – Helps to develop awareness of the present moment.
Music Meditation – Music can have a powerful impact on our emotions, so when you feel stress, listen to high frequency instrumental music which can have a positive impact on our well-being.
Breathe Meditation – In this, you need to focus on breathing and on being present.
Mantra Meditation – Choose a mantra of your choice and practice saying it until you feel it connecting to your body and soul.
Beside these, there are other forms also available of meditation. As per your choice you can choose a form of meditation and start practicing it, and you will be amazed with its benefits.
Meditation is a way which has the ability to give you calm, peace and balance that benefit your emotional well-being and overall health.
