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Meditation - How Is It Beneficial For Your Health?

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Mrs. Hiral KhimaniPsychologist • 22 Years Exp.Counselling Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist
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Modern-day life is not bereft (deprived) of anxiety, trauma, disease, and depression in spite of the success in technological advancement that has made life so much easier. Every aspect of life can be done easier with the majority of present-day inventions, yet mental peace is almost an obsolete (outdated) element. This is because of the fast-paced stressful lives that we lead.

Individuals are engrossed in the race of life rather than taking out time for self-counseling, contemplation, or just plain relaxing. Cutting out all the bustle and cacophony people need to spend some commute time on their own for themselves. This act is meditation. It can not only solve issues relating to mind but can also be a remedy for many health ailments as well.

  1. Improves heart and muscle functioning - When an individual is anxious or tensed, there is a release of cortisol and lactic acid which increases the levels of stress. The metabolism of the body is affected by these secretions. Cortisol is almost like a semi hormone that is vital for controlling metabolism. Meditation decreases the release of these chemicals and hence increase the functionality of heart and muscles.
     
  2. Improves healing and cognition - According to extensive studies in human development and neuroscience, meditation has been proven to have clear effects on the human brain and thus improve the wholesome functionality of the body. Also, it maneuvers (carefully guide or manipulate) our logical and cognitive skills. It is beneficial both mentally and physically by stimulating the brain to generate waves that bring it to the alpha state. This condition of the mind allows cell healing.
     
  3. Other health benefits - Meditation helps you to reduce high blood pressure, elevated levels of blood lactate, and lessen panic attacks. It reduces any pain related to tension like ulcers, headaches, muscle, and insomnia. It also improves the immune system increasing your energy levels as well.
     
  4. Mood booster - Meditation helps combat depression or mood swings as it helps the secretion of serotonin that enhances our mood, and thus works as an activity that elevates our mood. It is extremely beneficial for women to tackle Pre-Menstrual Syndrome and Menopausal mood swings.
     
  5. Calms your mind - Meditation helps you to concentrate your focus on a single perception or experience, a no-thought stage, which is often detoxifying for the mind to unleash into an absolute state of rest. This is essential as it enables the body and mind to synchronize together to unravel (Unknot) and unwind (untangle). This state calms you from within, helps you to think about whatever problem is bothering you from a deeper elemental level and to a rational out the stretch. Your analytical perspective broadens and decisions made after that can never be wrong as it is propelled by a mature heart and a settled brain. It enriches you spiritually.

Meditation has an overall psychosomatic effect. Meditation can combat numerous problems. All you have to do is maintain the consistency.

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