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Reasons Why You Should Practice Meditation
According to science during the practice of meditation, brain scans have shown increased activity in the regions that are directly connected with the decrease of anxiety and depression. When someone practices meditation their mind goes into a Default Mode Network or in short DMN, it is a state of mind in which the mind is at rest and not worried about the outside world. This state of mind is well known for improving memory and self-awareness.
Not just this but mediation also helps one to achieve more calm. During a study, scientists studied the brains of a Buddhist monk and a young mediator. They found that the area of grey matter inside the monk’s brain was way bigger than that of the young meditator. This grey matter consists of regions that control learning, memory, and emotions in our body. To their surprise, scientists also found that the size of regions in the brain that gives rise to the increased stress and blood pressure in a human body is smaller than that of an average human brain.
During the scan, scientists found that the amount of alpha waves spread by the brain is much higher in the monk. These alpha waves have been shown to reduce the feeling of negative mood, tension, and anger. You can say meditation changes the structure of your brain and help you to become happy both physically and mentally.
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1. It imroves self-awareness
Who doesn’t want to see the best version of themselves? Practice meditation and you’ll get to see it. Psychologists have noticed that their clients who practice meditation are more aware of their actions and emotions.
There are forms in meditation that can help a person to better understand their inner-self. The self-inquiry practice of meditation explicitly helps a person to better understand their thoughts. Combined with the practice of meditation that helps recognize whether the thought is naive, or harmful or self-defecating, with enough practice one can learn to steer their thoughts towards a more constructive point. Even a self-sabotaging bastard can learn to take better control of his life.
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2. Helps improve focus
Sitting still and doing nothing might sound easy, but it requires a lot of focus and discipline. The most basics of meditation are to sit and do nothing, just let all the thoughts come by and pass. While you sit there, with your eyes closed focusing on breath and thoughts come and go like a cloud.
Even science proves that people who practice meditation can hold their focus on a particular task for a long. Simply by practicing meditation for 10 minutes every day, one can see the improved results within 8 weeks.
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3. Takes care of your stress
Our life’s responsibility and stress that comes with it never gonna leave our side. Both mental and physical fatigue (stress) causes a chemical imbalance in our bodies. Excessive releasing of inflammatory chemicals called cytokines, can cause disrupted sleep, increase blood pressure. You must already know, stress promotes depression and anxiety and causes cloudy thinking, where all you feel is lost.
But my friends, practice mindful meditation, and your stress will be taken care of. In an 8 weeks study , where researchers concluded the practice of mindfulness meditation helps to reduce stress, by reducing inflammatory responses caused by stress.
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4. Helps you fight back anxiety
Meditation helps reduce stress, which in turn translates to reduced anxiety. But not just this, the practice of meditation has shown an effect in combating more than just one symptom of anxiety. For a long time, meditation has been prescribed to patients, to cure their anxiety disorders and panic attacks.
In one of the studies , they have found that mediation can help one to deal with their job-related anxiety. If one practices meditation daily, he can get better control of his anxiety and in turn, better control in life, as the practice of meditation helps your brain stay and focus on the present.
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5. Makes you more kind
Being able to control and feel your emotion better is what meditation helps you achieve. In a research study, studies have found that the daily practice of meditation helps to activate the happy and positive regions in your brain.
People who practice meditation daily are found to be more kind and have shown more empathy towards all kinds of living beings. They can make strong bonds with others as they care about the emotions.
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