Meditation Benefits
Overcome stress
(University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)
Improve digestion & lower blood pressure
(Harvard Medical School)
Overcome anxiety, depression & anger
(Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)
Boost your creativity
(ScienceDaily, 2010)
Decrease perception of pain
(Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)
Increase focus and attention
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)
Improve sex life and increase libido
(Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)
Cultivate healthy habits & weightloss
(Journal Emotion, 2007)
Why I Started Mainstream Meditation
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“We know that lasting well-being cannot be achieved by short-term interventions, but rather that enduring changes in the mind must be systematically cultivated and sustained. This can be accomplished by incorporating simple meditation into one’s daily routine.”
– Dr. Richard Davidson, Time Magazine “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006)
Benefits of Meditation
Scientifically Proven To:
1. Overcome stress
(University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)
2. Boost your creativity
(ScienceDaily, 2010)
3. Improve your sex life and increase your libido
(The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)
4. Cultivate healthy habits that lead to weight loss
(Journal Emotion, 2007)
5. Improve digestion and lower blood pressure
(Harvard Medical School)
6. Decrease your risk of heart attack
(The Stroke Journal, 2009)
7. Help overcome anxiety, depression, anger & confusion
(Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)
8. Decrease perception of pain and improve cognitive processing
(Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)
9. Increase your focus and attention
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)
10. Increase the size of your most important organ— your brain!
(HarvardGazette, 2006)
Psychological Benefits
- Builds self-confidence
- Increases serotonin levels
- Resolve phobias and fears
- Helps direct thoughts
- Helps with focus and concentration
- Increases creativity
- Increased brain wave coherence
- Improves learning ability and memory
- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
- Increased emotional stability
- Improves relationships and communication
- Mind ages at a slower rate
- Develops Intuition
- Improves leadership
- Able to see a larger point of view
- Develops will-power
- Develops emotional maturity
- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
- Greater tolerance and patience with others & self
- Gives composure to act vs. react
- Need less sleep to feel rested
- Decreased tendency to worry
- Helps make more accurate assessments
- Decrease in restlessness
- Solution for insomnia
Physiological Benefits
- Lowers oxygen consumption rate
- Decreases respiratory rate
- Increases blood flow
- Decreases heart rate
- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
- Good for people with high blood pressure
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering overactive amygdala
- Enhances the immune system
- Helps lessen chronic pain
- Helps in post-operative healing
- Decreases muscle tension (clenched muscles in hands, shoulders/neck, jaw, stomach and chest)
- Reduces pre-menstrual symptoms
- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
- Drop in cholesterol levels by reducing the release of stress hormones (cortisol) that damage your cells; lowering risk of cardiovascular disease
- Helps with weight loss and supports cultivating health habits
- Decreases inflammation
- Increased oxygenation, and easier breathing
- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
- Proactive apporach to reducing headaches and migraines
- Increases grey-matter of the hippocampus with regular practice
- Harmonize your endocrine system
- Reducing need for medical care
- Greater orderliness of brain functioning
- Relaxes the nervous system
- Helps infertility: Women living with constant stress produce prolactin, cortisol and other hormones, which can interfere with regular ovulation.
Personal Benefits
- Helps keep events in perspective
- Provides peace of mind
- Helps you discover your purpose
- Increase your compassion for others & yourself
- Developing inner wisdom
- Increases self-actualization
- Deeper understanding of your mind
- Brings body, mind, and spirit into harmony
- Helps the practice of forgiveness
- Changes point of view towards life
- Helps you live in the present
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
- Increases the synchronicity in life
- Allows the experience of ‘One-ness’
- Striving towards enlightened sensations
- Increases self acceptance
- Discovery of power and consciousness beyond the ego
- Deeper level of spiritual relaxation
- Deeper relationship with nature
- Greater inner-guidance
- Allows the inner sense of “assurance” – that deep down everything is okay
- Reduces pattern of judgment
- Allows one to ‘let go’ and begin to release the grasp of negative feelings
- Opens one to new ideas
- Shifts to being happier with reality, what is.
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