Experts say that meditation increases positive emotions and satisfaction levels with our life while reducing stress, anxiety, and depression keeping a balanced body.
Cristina Tesare
Meditation is commonly to de-stress the day and provide inner peace. It is considered a kind of complementary medicine for the mind and body, which produces a deep relaxation state and a calm mind.
During this practice, your mind concentrates your attention, and you eliminate the flow of confusing thoughts that may be filling your mind and causing you stress. For this reason, this process helps to make your days calmer and to control the symptoms of certain diseases.
Meditation can result in an enhancement of physical and emotional well-being.
How can I benefit from constantly meditation?
The changes you can notice in different aspects of your life, how, for example, emotionally you can notice the following:
- A new perspective on stressful situations.
- Increased self-awareness.
- Focus on the present.
- Reduce negative emotions.
- Increase imagination and creativity.
- Increased patience and tolerance.
Now, regarding diseases, it helps you when worsened by stress. This technique allows you to control disorders such as:
- Anxiety and asthma.
- Cancer.
- Chronic pain or depression.
- Heart disease.
- High blood pressure.
- Irritable bowel syndrome.
- Trouble sleeping.
- Tension headaches.
- Among others.
Meditation is key to having a balanced body.
Practicing meditation increases social connections as well as emotional intelligence and reduces the feeling of loneliness. So it not only benefits your body emotionally and in health but also your interpersonal relationships.
Importance of meditation in health?
Meditation improves our immune system since it stabilizes the different levels of our body and helps the organs to function better. Meditation increases gray matter and increases volume in areas related to emotion regulation and self-control.
In the medium and short term, it improves memory since it works in conjunction with the hemispheres and promotes the learning capacity of our cerebellum.
Patients with symptoms of anxiety and depression after a mindfulness meditation program can control the parameters of the immune system (white blood cells and immunoglobulins), causing an increase in immunoglobulins and proteins, these are necessary for the body to work internally.
Meditation brings benefits to cardiovascular health, reducing blood pressure and stress, lengthening the life of our heart. When practiced in a transcendent way, fortifying the neurological circuits that calm a part of the brain that acts as a trigger for fear and anger.