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Improves Sleep
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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Increasing positive feelings
Studies found that Metta, also known as loving-kindness meditation, increases peoples' compassion toward themselves and others.
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Controlling Pain
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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Enhancing Self-Awareness
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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Promoting Emotional Health
Some types of meditation can improve depression and help you maintain these benefits.
- Two studies of mindfulness meditation found decreased depression in over 4,600 adults.
- One study found that participants experienced a long-term decrease in depression.
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Reducing Stress
Many styles of meditation can help reduce stress.
- In an eight-week study, a meditation style called "mindfulness meditation" reduced the inflammation response caused by stress.
- Researchers have found that meditation may also improve symptoms of stress-related conditions,...
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Two Major Styles Of Meditation
- Focused-attention meditation: Concentrates attention on a single object, thought, sound or visualization. It emphasizes ridding your mind of attention and distraction.
- Open-monitoring meditation: Encourages broadened awareness of all aspects of your environment, train ...
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Fighting Addictions
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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Controlling Anxiety
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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Lengthening Attention Spans
Practicing focused-attention meditation may build your attention span.
- Meditation may reverse patterns in the brain that contribute to mind-wandering, worrying and poor attention.
- Studies found that four days of practicing meditation can increase attention span.
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Decreasing Blood Pressure
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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Reduce Age-Related Memory Loss
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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