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There are so many advantages to meditation. Here is a list of benefits that meditation can provide you with, however the most important one is it grows your relationship with your own inner self, your own inner unique divinity and ultimately with the divine.

Physiological benefits:

1. It lowers oxygen consumption.
2. It decreases respiratory rate.
3. It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4. Increases exercise tolerance.
5. Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6. Good for people with high blood pressure.
7. Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8. Decreases muscle tension
9. Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10. Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11. Helps in post-operative healing and enhances the immune system.
12. Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
13. Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
14. Helps with weight loss
15. Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
16. Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
17. Improves flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
18. Decreases the aging process.
19. Prevents, slows or controls pain of chronic diseases
20. Greater orderliness of Brain Functioning
21. Reduced Need for Medical Care
22. Significant relief from asthma
23. Normalises to your ideal weight
24. Harmonises our endocrine system
25. Relaxes our nervous system
26. Produces lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity

Psychological benefits:

1. Builds self-confidence.
2. Increases serotonin level,
3. Influences mood and behaviour.
4. Resolve phobias & fears Helps control own thoughts
5. Helps with focus & concentration
6. Increase creativity, Increased brain wave coherence.
7. Improved learning ability and memory.
8. Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
9. Increased emotional stability.
10. Improved relationships
11. Mind ages at slower rate
12. Easier to remove bad habits
13. Develops intuition
14. Increased Productivity
15. Improved relations at home & at work
16. Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
17. Helps ignore petty issues Increased ability to solve complex problems
18. Develop will power
19. Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
20. React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
21. Increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
22. Higher intelligence growth rate
23. Increased job satisfaction
24. Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
25. Decrease in potential mental illness
26. Better, more sociable behaviour Less aggressiveness
27. Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
28. Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
29. Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
30. Increases sense of responsibility
31. Decrease in restless thinking
32. Decreased tendency to worry Increases listening skills and empathy
33. Helps make more accurate judgements
34. Greater tolerance Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways

Spiritual benefits:

1. Grows a stable, more balanced personality
2. Helps keep things in perspective
3. Provides peace of mind, happiness
4. Helps you discover your purpose Increased self-actualization. Increased compassion
5. Growing wisdom
6. Deeper understanding of yourself and others
7. Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
8. Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation Increased acceptance of oneself
9. Helps learn forgiveness
10. Changes attitude toward life
11. Creates a deeper relationship with your God
12. Attain enlightenment
13. Greater inner-directedness
14. Helps living in the present moment
15. Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
16. Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
17. Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
18. Experience a sense of “Oneness”
19. Increases the synchronicity in your life
20. Allows to connect deeply with your own unique divinity within

Meditation is also completely free. It requires no special equipment, and is not complicated to learn. It can be practiced anywhere, at any given moment. However it does take commitment to self and time it’s probably best to start with 10-20minutes and work up slowly to an hour twice a day for a sense of total inner peace and connection. A great thing is there are no negative side effects. There is nothing but positive to be gained from it! With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?”

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