Meditation and Why You Should Try It

Meditation is a relaxation technique. From controlling those random thoughts to boosting your concentration, it is probably one of the most powerful medicines that exist on this planet. Meditation helps you get in touch with yourself on a deep level so that you can detect imbalances in your well-being right away. This is wonderful for disease prevention and health maintenance.

If you are a little skeptical regarding meditation, that’s ok a lot of people are. Please do yourself a favor and give it a try. It might make a difference in your life. a good app you can use to start with and it’s free is insight timer.  The app will guide you and show you hot start experiment with meditation.

Benefits of Meditation

Helps You Lose Weight

Meditation gets your mind and body deeply connected so they can communicate effectively. In essence, your mind becomes more in tune with your body and its needs. One of the biggest causes of weight gain is mindless eating. Through meditation, you can practice mindFUL eating where you really learn to honor body’s appetite and prevent yourself from over-eating. The more in touch your mind becomes with your body, the easier it is to stay healthy, eat right, and maintain or lose weight.

Reduces Stres

Meditation is one of the best and simplest ways to help reduce stress, and promote relaxation. If you practice meditation for as little as 10 minutes a day, you can significantly reduce stress and decrease anxiety.  People that meditated for an hour one time a week for seven weeks effectively decreased mood disturbance.

Eases Pain

Meditation has been shown to help ease chronic discomforts like neck, knee and back pain, arthritis, and recurring headaches. It teaches you to open your senses to your breathing, the sound of the wind rustling or the feel of the sun on your skin. If some attention’s going toward other things, the pain’s not going to bother you as much.

Makes You More Productive

It helps you stay in the present moment so that you can ignore distractions. This leads to greater productivity, focus, awareness, clarity, and better decision making.

Lower Blood Pressure

Meditation helps promote relaxation and is very calming. Practicing meditation helps blood vessels to open and improves blood flow, which aids in decreasing blood pressure.

Improves Mood and Makes You Happy

Meditation increases serotonin (the happy chemical) which makes you feel good and boosts your mood. Those that are under high stress or dealing with depression often have low levels of serotonin.

Help you fall asleep and sleep better

Mindfulness meditation helps fight insomnia, improves sleep. If you’re looking for better sleeping and relaxation, try to search for Yoga Nidra meditation on the insight timer app or online. this is a powerful also known as yogic sleep because it’s actually the state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like the “going-to-sleep” stage. Try this just before bed and you’ll be surprised.

Health News Tips Team Member