5 Awesome Benefits of Meditation

5 Benefits of Meditation

Meditation, when practiced consistently, can provide a variety of health benefits. Meditation is well-known for the breakdown of cortisol hormones. These hormones inflict chaos on each body system in different ways. When cortisol hormones are stimulated, they release inflammation into the tissues and organs, causing ailments in a variety of areas. How does cortisol get released into the body? STRESS! Everyone carries some sort of stress and depending how much stress you carry, you could be flooding your body with cortisol on a routine basis.

1. The first benefit of meditation is the reduction of stress. Meditation is a time where you quiet the mind and slow your thoughts, removing all the worries for the moment. This clearing for the instant allows the brain and soul to realign and work together. The quiet allows for clarification on your next strategy and design, to rearrange your current set of circumstances.
2. When you transport too much stress, long term concerns begin to arise. Untreated stress can lead to on-going anxiety. Anxiety is drawn upon us from inner means, built up pressure that we have not dealt with and outer stress, environmental tension. Outer stress is in our everyday world and is presented as our constant busy state. We spend all day looking at electronics and surrounded with constant noise. The short moment of quiet is just the right remedy to combat anxiety. Just by quieting the mind for a short time each morning, you can detox from the outside noise.
3. Emotional wellness is also a stigma that we tackle by use of meditation. When you are feeling insecure, quiet down and focus on all the things that you are thankful for at that moment, in your life. Shifting a focus to gratitude fills us with peace and love. When we are filled with peace and love, our emotional state remains in kindness which allows us to feel open to more of the feelings we are focused on.

There is a much longer list of health benefits and if we brought in a meditation guru, they could spend all day discussing the health benefits, I just wanted to surface some that I believe are important. Besides the health benefits, there are a couple others that I like to mention. When discussing how busy we are as a society, there are two concerns that come to mind quickly. First, is our ability to maintain self-awareness.

4. Meditation is an extreme heavy hitter in the self-awareness arena. Imagine that you spend twenty quiet minutes with yourself every day. During that time, you are getting really personal with your own thought patterns and belief systems, your thought patterns are the only presence in the space with you. With all this self-talk time, you become very self-aware of your behaviors, actions and thought processes. You start quickly to hold yourself accountable for acting outside of the person that you envision yourself to be.
5. Improved Interaction with other humans. Once you have improved self-awareness, you begin to improve your interaction with others. The distractions that you would previously gravitate towards becomes less important. You will find that you have an increased awareness of how you respond to others and often start to display an increased attention to others. Suddenly, the details surrounding every interaction are recalled quicker and with greater clarity than ever before. This clarity and attention to detail is noticeable, presenting you as engaged and in the moment.