100
reasons to practice meditation
Physiological benefits:
- Meditation lowers oxygen consumption
- It decreases
respiratory rate
- It increases blood flow and slows the
heart rate
- Increases exercise tolerance
- Leads
to a deeper level of physical relaxation
- Good for people
with high blood pressure
- Reduces anxiety attacks by
lowering the levels of blood lactate
- Decreases muscle
tension
- 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 and emotional distress
- Enhances energy, strength
and vigour
- Helps with weight loss
- Reduction
of free radicals, less tissue damage
- Higher skin
resistance
- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of
cardiovascular disease
- Improved flow of air to the lungs
resulting in easier breathing
- Decreases the aging
process
- Higher levels of DHEAS
(Dehydroepiandrosterone)
- Prevented, slowed or controlled
pain of chronic diseases
- Makes you sweat less
- Cure headaches and migraines
- Greater orderliness
of brain functioning
- Reduced need for medical care
- Less energy wasted
- More inclined to sports,
activities
- Significant relief from asthma
- Improved performance in athletic events
- Normalises
to your ideal weight
- Harmonises our endocrine system
- Relaxes our nervous system
- Produce lasting
beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
- Helps
cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the
release of hormones that regulate ovulation).
Psychological
benefits:
- Builds self-confidence
- Increases serotonin level,
influences mood and behaviour
- Resolve phobias and
fears
- Helps control own thoughts
- Helps with
focus and concentration
- Increase creativity
- Increased brain wave coherence
- Improved learning
ability and memory
- Increased feelings of vitality and
rejuvenation
- Increased emotional stability
- Improved relationships
- Mind ages at slower
rate
- Easier to remove bad habits
- Develops
intuition
- Increased Productivity
- Improved
relations at home and at work
- Able to see the larger
picture in a given situation
- Helps ignore petty
issues
- Increased ability to solve complex problems
- Purifies your character
- Develop will power
- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
- Respond more quickly and more effectively to a stressful
event
- Increases one’s perceptual ability and motor
performance
- Higher intelligence growth rate
- Increased job satisfaction
- Increase in the
capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
- Decrease
in potential mental illness
- Better, more sociable
behaviour
- Less aggressiveness
- Helps in
quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
- Reduces need and
dependency on drugs, pills and pharmaceuticals
- Need less
sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
- Require less
time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
- Increases sense
of responsibility
- Reduces road rage
- Decrease
in restless thinking
- Decreased tendency to worry
- Increases listening skills and empathy
- Helps make
more accurate judgments
- Greater tolerance
- Gives
composure to act in considered and constructive ways
- Grows
a stable, more balanced personality
- Develops emotional
maturity
Spiritual
benefits:
- Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of
mind, happiness
- Helps you discover your purpose in
life
- Increased self-actualisation.
- Increased
compassion
- Growing wisdom
- Deeper
understanding of yourself and others
- Brings body, mind,
and spirit in harmony
- Deeper Level of spiritual
relaxation
- Increased acceptance of one self
- Helps learn forgiveness
- Changes attitude toward
life
- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
- Increases the synchronicity in your life
- Greater
inner-directedness
- Helps living in the present
moment
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for
love
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the
ego
- Experience an inner sense of “assurance or
knowingness”
- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
- Leads to enlightenment
To
top it off, meditation has NO negative side effects.