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Practicing focused-attention meditation may build your attention span.
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Studies found that Metta, also known as loving-kindness meditation, increases peoples' compassion toward themselves and others.
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Meditation can reduce your perception of pain.
Meditating patients showed increased activity in the areas of the brain that control pain.
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Self-inquiry and related styles of meditation can help you to understand yourself better.
According to research, some forms of meditation can teach you to recognize thoughts that may be harmful or self-defeating.
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According to some studies, meditation can help you relax and control your thoughts. It can reduce the time it takes to fall asleep.
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Some types of meditation can improve depression and help you maintain these benefits.
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Many styles of meditation can help reduce stress.
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The mental discipline developed through meditation may help break dependencies.
Research has shown that meditation may help people learn to redirect their attention and control their emotions and impulses.
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Less stress leads to less anxiety.
Regular meditation helps reduce anxiety and anxiety-related mental health issues like social anxiety, phobias and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
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Meditation can increase heart function.
Meditation reduces blood pressure during the time you meditate and also over time. Meditation appears to control blood pressure by relaxing the nerve signals that coordinate heart func...
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Improvements in attention and clarity of thinking through meditation may help fight age-related memory loss and dementia.
A review of 12 studies found that meditation increased attention, memory and mental quickness in older participants.
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Meditation helps to counter our tendency to stop paying attention to new information in our environment. Other studies have found that mindfulness meditation can reduce mind-wandering and improve attention.
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Digital technology is shortening our attention span, according to various studies in the past decade. It is also making us distracted to the point of absurdity.
One more negative effect of digital technology and social media on us is that we may be not paying attention to stuff that really...
Meditating can change the structure and function of the brain through relaxation, which can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Increase focus and learning concentration. Improve memory and attention span.
Disconnects us with the world and blazes out our focus for the given task. Us...
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