Sunday 10 August 2014

Amazing benefits of meditation

Why meditate? If you are lost in your head or are stressed out, make sure you are meditating to reground yourself in the present moment. Here are just SOME of the amazing benefits of meditation:

- Overcome stress (University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)


- Boost your creativity (ScienceDaily, 2010)

- Improve your sex life and increase your libido (The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)

- Cultivate healthy habits that lead to weight loss (Journal Emotion, 2007)

- Improve digestion and lower blood pressure (Harvard Medical School)

- Decrease your risk of heart attack (The Stroke Journal, 2009)

- Help overcome anxiety, depression, anger and confusion (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)

- Decrease perception of pain and improve cognitive processing (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)

- Increase your focus and attention (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)

- Increase the size of your most important organ – your brain! (Harvard University Gazette, 2006)

Meditation and its reduced risk on cardiovascular disease: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16463759

Meditation on the effects and prevention of depression: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044190/

Some people use music during meditation, which has further been proven to to descrease stress. There is an amazing meditation CD that is tuned to the frequencies of the energy systems in the body (chakras) to promote spiritual and physical health. Samples can be heard here: http://www.islandjourneycd.com/Island_Journey/Spirit_Science_%26_Metaphysics.html

Source : Spirit Science and Metaphysics

 

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