WHY SHOULD I MEDITATE

Improve my mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.

Meditation helps to create a balance within ourselves. Through meditation we can decrease reactivity to our internal and external environment. We have the ability to reduce heightened emotions, negative physical sensations and racing thoughts that occur by just observing our own internal body sensations or our breath or a combination of the two. Meditations can be used on a regular basis to reduce critical or judgmental mindsets about ourselves, other people, life situations and events that happen around us.

Everything in our life is impermanent. Practice letting go of all your worries. Enjoy feeling good.

One main aim of meditation is to realise that everything within our inner and outer environment is impermanent and to accept what is right now in a neutral manner. When we realise the impermanency of our emotions, thoughts, physical sensations, events, situation, and others around us we begin to realise the things within our inner and outer environment come and go but never stay as they are. By focusing on what is happening in the here and now we are not focused on negative situations that occur within our life. We are able to view our world in a more balanced manner, we react less to our environment, and are more able to react in a balanced mindset. In this way, our level of happiness, inner balance, peace and tranquility increase. We effectively have the ability to reduce reactivity to our environment and live in a harmonious manner.

Choose how you want to live your life!!!

It is up to us to choose how we would like to live our lives. We have the choice to create an inner calm or to remain reactive to our inner and outer environment.

Benefits of Meditation

Research indicates meditating on a regular basis has physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits. The list of benefits of meditation is extensive. The following are some of the commonly known benefits.

Do you want to improve your physical health?

Physical Benefits of Meditation

· Increases positive energy

· Improves your ability to adapt to events and situations within your life.

· Improves sleep

· Reduces inflammation within our body

· Increases our ability to lose weight

· Increases blood circulation and the body’s ability to heal

· Reduces muscle tension

· Boosts endorphins, and GABA

· Reduces Cortisol production

· Aids digestion

· Lowers cholesterol and your respiratory rate

· Balances your right and left-brain hemispheres creating faster learning, better emotional health.

· Decreases the aging process and increases our life expectancy by reducing the effects of stress on our systems.

Do you want to improve your mental health?

Mental Benefits of Meditation

· Decreases the fight and flight response

· Reduces racing thoughts to quieten our mind

· Increases willpower and self-discipline

· Increases motivation

· Improves symptoms of bipolar disorder, dementia, ADD and ADHD

· Increases your ability to concentrate, learn and memory

· Helps to improve the functioning of your brain

· Increases your mind-body connection

· Shifts your mind to a positive mindset

· Increases mental awareness

· Improves our unbiased perception of situation

· Supports the breaking of addictions and habits

· Increases our autonomy

· Improves our intelligence

Do you want to improve your emotional health?

Emotional Benefits of Meditation

· Reduces anxiety

· Reduces depression

· Reduces anger

· Reduces fear reactions

· Improves our ability to regulate our emotions

· Increases mental clarity

· Improves our emotional intelligence

· Improves our tolerance in difficult situations

· Increases happiness

Do you want to improve your spiritual connection?

Spiritual Benefits of Meditation

· Increases positive energy

· Increases our inner silence

· Enables us to use our higher consciousness

· Improves our connectedness to ourselves and others

· Balances our spiritual being

· Increases our peace of mind

Rewire your brain for positivity

Research indicates that our brains functioning changes with as little as five hours of meditation and our brains wiring actively changes when we meditate for eleven hours, which indicates the more meditation that we participate in the better adaptive functioning we have within our brain and body. The good news is the effects of mediation within our bodies does not have to be in extensive sessions of large blocks of eleven hours to achieve a significantly large effect. Our bodies and minds also respond to smaller sessions over time. For anyone that has experienced emotional, mental, physical or spiritual difficulties, it may be best to meditate in blocks of time, to improve your ability to reduce and manage any emotional, mental, physical or spiritual difficulties within your life.

Meditation is an activity that you can do anywhere at anytime without the need to buy any expensive resources. You can find a nice cosy corner of a couch, a specialized meditation cushion, a comfortable seat in a garden or park, or you may wish to meditate in a rainforest or near a stream. It is always nice to have a blanket or a wrap to make sure that you are have the ability to wrap yourself in a cosy wrap just in case you begin to feel cool.

So why don't you schedule daily meditation into your life to reap the many physical, mental, emotional and benefits. Remember even a five minute meditation can have a significant impact on your health.

Take care and have a wonderful day.

Louise xoxo