- It lowers oxygen consumption.
- It decreases respiratory rate.
- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
- Increases exercise tolerance.
- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
- Good for people with high blood pressure.
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
- Decreases muscle tension.
- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
- Helps in post-operative healing.
- Enhances the immune system.
- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress.
- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
- Helps with weight loss.
- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage.
- Higher skin resistance.
- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease
- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
- Decreases the aging process.
- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone).
- Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases.
- Makes you sweat less.
- Cure headaches & migraines.
- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning.
- Reduced Need for Medical Care.
- Less energy wasted.
- More inclined to sports, activities.
- Significant relief from asthma.
- Improved performance in athletic events.
- Normalizes to your ideal weight.
- Harmonizes our endocrine system.
- Relaxes our nervous system.
- Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity.
- Helps cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).
- Builds self-confidence.
- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behaviour.
- Resolve phobias & fears.
- Helps control own thoughts.
- Helps with focus & concentration.
- Increase creativity.
- Increased brain wave coherence.
- Improved learning ability and memory.
- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
- Increased emotional stability.
- Improved relationships.
- Mind ages at slower rate.
- Easier to remove bad habits.
- Develops intuition.
- Increased Productivity.
- Improved relations at home & at work.
- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation.
- Helps ignore petty issues.
- Increased ability to solve complex problems.
- Purifies your character.
- Develop will power.
- Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres.
- Respond more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
- Increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance.
- Higher intelligence growth rate.
- Increased job satisfaction.
- Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones.
- Decrease in potential mental illness.
- Better, more sociable behaviour.
- Less aggressiveness.
- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction.
- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals.
- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation.
- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia.
- Increases sense of responsibility.
- Reduces road rage.
- Decrease in restless thinking.
- Decreased tendency to worry.
- Increases listening skills and empathy.
- Helps make more accurate judgments.
- Greater tolerance.
- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways.
- Grows a stable, more balanced personality.
- Develops emotional maturity
Spiritual benefits: - Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of mind, happiness
- Helps you discover your purpose in life.
- Increased self-actualization.
- Increased compassion.
- Growing wisdom.
- Deeper understanding of yourself and others.
- Brings body, mind, and spirit in harmony.
- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation.
- Increased acceptance of one self.
- Helps learn forgiveness.
- Changes attitude toward life.
- Creates a deeper relationship with your God.
- Increases the synchronicity in your life.
- Greater inner-directedness.
- Helps living in the present moment.
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love.
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego.
- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”.
- Experience a sense of “Oneness”.
- Leads to enlightenment
Psychological benefits:
To top it off, meditation has NO negative side effects
