‘BENEFITS OF MEDITATIONS’ Dr. Avdesh Sharma
Physiological Benefits
- Increases blood flow in the body.
- Slows down the heart rate.
- Good for people with high blood pressure.
- Drop in cholesterol levels.
- Lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
- It lowers oxygen consumption of the body cells.
- It decreases respiratory rate.
- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
- Significant relief from asthma.
- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies etc.
- Optimizes blood glucose levels and improves Diabetes.
- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
- Helps infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones regulating ovulation).
- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone).
- Enhances the immune system.
- Helps in post-operative healing.
- Reduces activity of viruses in the body.
- Headaches & migraines improved.
- Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases.
- Decreased acid secretion and improvement in peptic ulcer.
- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage.
- Reduced Need for Medical Care and hospitalization.
- Makes you sweat less and helps the skin glow.
- Harmonizes our endocrine system.
- Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity.
- Relaxes our nervous system.
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning.
- Higher skin resistance.
- Decreases muscle tension.
- Normalizes to your ideal weight.
- Helps with weight loss.
- Improved performance in athletic events.
- Increases exercise tolerance.
- Conserves Energy.
- Enhances energy, strength and vigor.
- Decreases the aging process.
Psychological benefits - Helps control thoughts, specially negative ones.
- Helps with focus & concentration.
- Improved learning ability and memory.
- Increased ability to solve complex problems.
- Increases one‟s perceptual ability and motor performance.
- Higher intelligence growth rate.
- Increase creativity.
- Mind ages at slower rate.
- React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
- Helps make more accurate judgments.
- Builds self-confidence.
- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
- Increased emotional stability.
- Develops emotional maturity.
- Easier to remove bad habits.
- Develops intuition.
- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation.
- Develops will power.
- Less aggressiveness.
- Increases sense of responsibility.
- Decrease in restlessness.
- Increases listening skills and empathy.
- Greater tolerance of negative situations.
- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways.
- Grows a stable, more balanced personality.
- Increased brain wave coherence.
- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres.
- Increased alpha and delta activity on EEG.
- Improved Neuroplasticity of brain.
- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behavior.
- Resolve phobias & fears.
- Decreased tendency to worry.
- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction.
- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals.
- Improvement in depressions.
- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation.
- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia.
- Improvement in ability to let go of past negative memories and images.
- Improvement is obsessional thoughts.
- Decrease in anxiety.
- Decrease in relapse of some mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.
- Improved relationships at home.
- Increased Productivity.
- Helps ignore petty issues interpersonally.
- Harmony at work.
- Increased job satisfaction.
- Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones.
- Better, more sociable behavior.
- Reduces road rage.
- Reduces rates of crimes.
- Helps cope with loss, grief.
- Helps fight Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Spiritual Benefits - Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony.
- Deeper Level of spiritual experience.
- Increased acceptance of oneself and problems of living.
- Changed attitude toward life.
- Helps keep things in perspective.
- Greater inner-directedness.
- Helps living in the present moment.
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego.
- Increases the synchronicity in your life.
- Development of „Extrasensory Perceptions‟.
- Provides peace of mind, happiness.
- Growing wisdom.
- Deeper understanding of yourself and others.
- Helps learn forgiveness.
- Help attain enlightenment.
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love.
- Increased compassion.
- Helps you discover your purpose in life.
- Increased self-actualization.
- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”.
- Creates a deeper relationship with your God.
- Experience a sense of “Oneness” of self, others and environment.
Lots of points learned …with best regards Om Shanti..,Banoj Hazarika Digboi Assam
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