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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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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 alr...
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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...
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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...
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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 m...
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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...
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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.
Self-Compassion
We have to take care not to damage our self-esteem and our sense of self-worth by being judgemental about ourselves.
Embracing one’s imperfect moments with kindness and grace, makes us see the positive aspects of the situation and helps us learn from our mistakes. Medita...
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