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The Physical Benefits Of Meditation
Studies suggest that, regardless of the practitioner’s experience, meditation can help reduce the body's response to anger, reducing the toll frequent anger takes on you.
Anger and frustration cause us to be stressed, activate our sympathetic nervous system, and produce shallower, faster breathing, a rapid heart rate, and raises blood pressure.
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The Benefits Of Meditation
Repeated, consistent practice of meditation enhances our ability to cope and sit with negative emotions like anger without reacting.
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Becoming Virtually Invulnerable To Anger
In people with dozens of hours of meditation experience, thinking about an angry experience showed no physical reaction. Their heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate remained relaxed, both before and after meditation.
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Simple 20 Minutes Meditation
- Sit comfortably.
- Close your eyes or stare at the ground a few feet away from you.
- Rest your hands on your thighs.
- Focus your attention on the area a few fingers below your navel.
- Take a smooth, slow breath in and count each inhale and exhale, from one to ten a...
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Studies on the relaxation response have documented the following short-term benefits to the nervous system:
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- Slower respiratory rate
- Less anxiet...
Fight Or Flight: Chain Reaction
When acute stress occurs, the body’s sympathetic nervous system gets activated with a hormonal release. It stimulates the adrenal glands, releasing catecholamines (adrenaline and noradrenaline).
Heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate increases, lasting for about 20...
The Special Power Of Breathing
- The power of breathing is evident with people who have breathing disorders. As emotions affect our well-being, so does our breathing.
- Our parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are in control of producing feelings of calmness and the latter, the body's rapid involuntary re...
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