Since ancient times, meditation has been used and still is, with the same enthusiasm, and for an excellent reason. Meditation has been considered one of the most efficient techniques to relieve stress and gain self-awareness.

Not only that, almost every told benefit of meditation has been scientifically proven. And having a scientific proof is always welcomed. Being as fascinated by meditation as I am, I have decided to share 13  most amazing beneficial effects that meditation promises to deliver.

You will soon want these 13 beneficial effects so badly in your life that you will grab your yoga mat and start meditating as soon as you are done reading this article.

Are you excited? I sure am! Let’s get started, shall we?

The 13 scientifically proven beneficial effects of meditation that you need to know about

1. Meditation treats your depression symptoms –

Globally, there are over 300 millions people of all races and ages that have been reported to suffer from depression. Depression creates such difficulties in one’s everyday life, disabling the person from engaging in the usual activities and social interactions.

Luckily for these people, meditation has been scientifically proven to be able to help reduce the symptoms of depression. A study published in the JAMA Internal Medicine found out that 30 minutes of meditation on a daily basis is all that it takes to reduce the symptoms of depression efficiently.

2. Meditation reduces the stress levels –

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to live without stress. Leading our busy everyday lives, trying to juggle everything creates a great deal of stress that we have to deal with. Unfortunately, stress has been found guilty of a lot of health problems – from hypertension and heart problems to stroke, anxiety, and depression. But not anymore because one of the great benefits of meditation is its ability to reduce our stress levels to a minimum.

3. Meditation strengthens your immunity –

If you are tired of calling in sick at work, having to deal with a fever, sore throat, headache, and nausea, then you should try meditation. One of the many beneficial effects of meditation, which have been scientifically proven, is its ability to strengthen your immune system.

And researchers published a whole study in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, explaining and supporting this finding. Meditation is officially a useful preventing technique in preventing acute respiratory infections.

4. Meditation improves your cardiovascular health –

By reducing your stress levels, meditation is found to be an effective technique for improving your cardiovascular health. But that is not all - you get to use meditation as a method to reduce the risk of stroke, heart disease, and heart attack.

This is especially important for those of you who might have a family history involving heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.

5. Meditation improves the memory –

How often do you find yourself forgetting essential details, names and things that you had to do but forgot about? Yes, it happens to every one of us, but it also happens a bit more to some of us which create a lot of difficulties having to go through the day when you keep forgetting vital information.

One thing that you can do about this sort of a problem is to try and meditate. Meditation has been proven effective when used to increase the memory capacity of the patients.

And not only that – meditation has also been proven to be able to get rid of our distracting minds and fix the problem that you might be having with your wandering soul. So if you are wondering how to improve memory, perhaps you should try meditation!

6. Meditation will treat your insomnia –

Insomnia is not an easy thing to deal with having to go night after night without getting any rest, leaving you to have to deal with low energy level, fatigue, and irritability throughout the day.

If you are unfortunately dealing with insomnia, you might want to look into the possibility of trying meditation as a treatment plan. Researchers suggest that meditation might be an effective treatment for insomnia, although more research needs to be done on this topic.

7. Meditation helps battle unhealthy eating habits –

There is quite a fair share of emotional eaters among us. And not to mention those of us who are classified as “binge eaters” who spend hours in front of the TV, binge-watching their favorite TV shows and eating everything that they can find laying around at the house.

These two kinds are probably the worst ones next to the ones that suffer from anorexia or bulimia just because they are doing as harmful to their bodies as an anorexic person does on a daily basis.

By eating when you are in a particular emotional state or binge eating you are missing out on the opportunity to taste the food not to mention the chance to feel when you are full.

Mindful eating and meditation have been considered to be the perfect techniques to teach you how to be more self-aware and eat a bit more healthy. A healthy diet plan plus self-awareness will inevitably result in healthy eating habits that you need to adopt for yourself.

8. Meditation improves your self-control –

“We’re here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation and some sense of general wakefulness,” said Pema Chödrön, a renowned author on multiple books on the topic of meditation.

Self-control is something that we all should aim at achieving.

Good self-control able a person to act calmly and without any anger at the moment when he/she stumbles upon a challenging problem in his/her life. It has been scientifically proven that meditation is the one technique that will improve your self-awareness and through that teach you all about self-control.

9. Meditation relieves headaches –

Nobody likes having to deal with annoying troubles, and yet this problem seems unavoidable living our busy lives. So what is there to be done when we are suffering from chronic headaches except pumping on analgesics? How about trying meditation? Believe it or not but there is a scientific proof showing that meditation can be efficiently used as a treatment technique for chronic headaches.

A study used 50 participants, divided into two groups of which one group were taught meditation, and the other group was given analgesics and muscle relaxants to help them deal with their chronic headache.

In the end, meditation successfully helped the participants of the first group to reduce their headache at 99% as compared with only 51% decreasing headaches among the other group.

10. Meditation helps you maintain healthy relationships –

For you to build healthy, honest and fulfilling relationships with your family members and friends, including your soul mate, you first need to know yourself. You have to feel happy with who you are, and if you are not, then you should first work on loving yourself and getting shaped into the person that you set out to be one day.

By practicing meditation, you will enjoy the opportunity to get to know yourself, your feelings and emotions and only that way, will you be able to build healthy relationships with the people that matter the most.

11. Meditation improves creativity –

Many people lack creativity. And creativity is not only important to those of you who are interested in creating music or literature or art for a living or as a hobby. Creativity is vital to the everyday life.

Creative persons can solve their problems more efficiently, setting out different approaches and ways to solve these problems. So if you think that you lack creativity and feel as if that affects your everyday life and work status, then you might want to try meditation.

In one study, it was shown that the participants who practiced meditation on a regular basis have reported being able to improve their problem-solving abilities and creativity.

12. Meditation will improve your sex life –

Having great, satisfying sex life is the dream of any man and woman. And yet not everyone can enjoy sex with such satisfaction. Meditation has been found to be a great technique when it comes to boosting your libido and sexual pleasure, according to a study published in the International Journal of Neuroscience.

So perhaps you and your partner can join a meditation class and use this unusual technique to spice up your sex life for a change.

13. Meditation reduces the cognitive decline –

We all go through the process of aging, and the cognitive decline that comes with is unavoidable. The cognitive deterioration creates many difficulties with our focus and concentration as well as learning, problem-solving abilities, and memory.

Meditation has been considered being able to increase the thickness of the brain’s prefrontal cortex and that way helping to slow down the cognitive decline.

Conclusion

Living sort of a chaotic life, working 40 hours a week and even more, taking care of the bills and the house and the family are all things that put a great deal of stress on our bodies and minds.

As a result, we are left vulnerable and exposed to the many significant medical issues of today such as diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, stroke, cancer, and whatnot. Luckily for us, there is a natural method that can reduce the risk of these and many other issues that are put in our way due to our lifestyle choices.

And that method is meditation itself. As you can see in today’s article, there are many beneficial effects of meditation that you can gain but we have chosen the 13 significant benefits of meditation to talk about today.

I hope that you will find what you have been looking for in today’s article and decide to use meditation as your coping technique.

 

 

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