BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration. ... This article reviews 12 health benefits of meditation.

The goal of meditation is to go beyond the mind and experience our essential nature—which is described as peace, happiness, and bliss. But as anyone who has tried to meditate knows, the mind itself is the biggest obstacle standing between ourselves and this awareness.

Reduces Stress. Stress reduction is one of the most common reasons people try meditation.Controls Anxiety. Less stress translates to less anxiety. ...Promotes Emotional Health. ...Enhances Self-Awareness. ...Lengthens Attention Span. ...May Reduce Age-Related Memory Loss. ...Can Generate Kindness. ...May Help Fight Addictions.

If you are just starting out, I recommend you meditate for anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes every day. You can start with even less. Maybe try it for 1 minute in the morning. And when you can sit still and relax for that long, move to 2 minutes.

                                                                                  

 

Meditating has been proven to reduce stress and to be beneficial for treating depression, however, it's entirely possible to have too much of a good thing. ... Excessive meditation may be pleasurable, but there exists the possibility of very real dangers to emotional, mental, and physical health with over meditation.

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There are various other meditation techniques. For example, a daily meditation practice among Buddhist monks focuses directly on the cultivation of compassion. This involves envisioning negative events and recasting them in a positive light by transforming them through compassion. There are also moving meditation techniques, such as , and walking meditation.