Meditation is a practice to control your mind and thoughts. Our situations and our thought process around them can create chaos in our lives. Meditation is a guided technique to calm your mind and prevent it from wandering.
There are scientifically proven benefits of meditation:
- Reduces stress and anxiety: Daily practice of meditation can help us overcome the anxiety that builds up from the situations around us. It reduces our stress levels as well.
- Builds emotional stability: When we learn to control our thoughts, we go stronger emotionally and it further helps us to build our mental well being.
- General health benefit: Since most of our problems stem from stress, when we learn to monitor our stress and anxiety our overall health improves. Meditation has shown some positive effects in controlling blood pressure and normal functioning of heart.
- Better sleep: People often complain of lack of sleep, meditation has shown some proven benefits in improving sleep patterns. It helps in improving the quality and depth of the sleep.
- Improves attention: People who practice meditation have a better attention span .It specifically helps to improve the focus of the mind.
How and when to meditate?
Meditation shows great results when practiced early morning and once before going to bed. 15min meditation both times can help our body heal miraculously.
There are numerous YOUTUBE videos that can help you meditate. There are various apps that can guide you to better meditation techniques.
Try this beautiful practice and see the benefits for yourself.