Bryan Ziegenfuse discusses a few of the meditations that come from meditating.

1. THE 7
BENEFITS OF
MEDITATION
Bryan Ziegenfuse

2. Meditation, what is it? With the popularity of meditation, there are more and more discoveries
as to the benefits that it has for people. The definition of meditation given by the online
source Healthline states, meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and
redirect your thoughts. Meditation has been known to improve mental clarity, reduce stress, and
help to develop concentration. But those are just a scratch at the surface as to what meditation
benefits really are. In this article, we have compiled a list of the most important benefits of
meditation.

3. STRESS RELIEF
In today’s world more and more people are becoming overworked and
overly stressed. In a newly published study on the US National Library of
Medicine National Institutes of Health, over 3,500 adults have shown
improvement in stress reduction with the implementation of meditation.
Both physical and mental stressors have been known to increase the
body’s level of cortisol. This can also cause harmful side effects such as
the release of inflammation-causing hormones called cytokines. These
upsets can also disrupt our sleep cycles, promote both depression and
anxiety, increase blood pressure and have a contribution to causing
fatigue and dazed thinking.

4. ANXIETY RELIEF
When you have less stress you have less anxiety. In
an eight-week study, dr.’s were able to show that
meditation helped reduce the patient’s anxiety. Along
with this it also showed reduced symptoms of
anxiety disorders, paranoid thoughts, obsessive-
compulsive behaviors, and panic attacks. With this, it
has been shown that yoga also contributes to this
with it’s meditative and physical activity.

5. EMOTIONAL HELP
It has been proven that some forms of meditation can
vastly improve your emotional state. Inflammatory
chemicals called cytokines are released in a response to
stress, leading to effects of your mood leading to
depression and anxiety. Meditation can help to give you
a more positive outlook on life.

6. IMPROVING YOUR
SELF AWARENESS
In self-inquiry related styles of meditation can help
you to “get to know yourself”, thus helping you to
create a starting point to make positive changes in
your life and improve your moods.

7. IMPROVEMENT
OF YOUR
ATTENTION SPAN
Some forms of meditation help you to improve your
attention span, in a sense acting like weight lifting
for the endurance of your attention. If done
consistently it could help in as little as four days to
start having an effect.

8. MEMORY LOSS
Consistently practicing meditation has also shown
improvement in memory loss. With the improvement of
your attention span, meditation can also improve mental
clarity to help better retain information. These benefits
have also been known to show improvement in older
generations with memory-loss related dementia.

9. KEEPING KINDNESS
While it has many health benefits it also has so many
mood benefits. When you are not bogged down by
stress you are able to think more clearly and have a
more optimistic outlook. Loving-kindness meditation
is the practice of developing positive feelings at first
toward yourself and then helping you to create
positive feelings for others around you.

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