The Importance of Meditation in our Lives

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• May 30, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

Anxiety can be mentally and physically draining. Meditation helps calm the mind and reduces negative thoughts and moods. Meditation can help control blood pressure and other hormones in the body that often lead to feelings of anxiety.

Digital Desk: Meditation is a practice to help us
clear our minds and reach a new level of self-awareness and self-discovery.
Meditation has various health benefits, be it physical or mental. Here are the
various ways in which meditation can help improve our brains.

It
reduces depression symptoms

Meditating
has great effects on our mental health. As a major part of meditating is
focusing the mind and working on awareness, it helps us better understand our
thoughts. Some studies have shown that meditation can act as an
antidepressant. 

Reduces
anxiety

Anxiety can
be mentally and physically draining. Meditation helps calm the mind and reduces
negative thoughts and moods. Meditation can help control blood pressure and
other hormones in the body that often lead to feelings of anxiety.

Improves
the quality of sleep

Meditation
helps in reducing feelings of stress, tension, etc. This promotes a better
quality of sleep. Getting a good night's sleep has great benefits for the mind
as well as the body. A better state of mind promotes better sleep by clearing
the mind.

Stress
reduction

In today's
fast-paced life, it can be hard to manage work-life, relationships, and other
parts of our lives. This chaos can lead to stress. This stress not only causes
physical and mental restlessness, but it may also impair our work performance
and interpersonal relationships. Meditation has been proven to reduce stress
and promote happier moods as it releases happy hormones.

Betters
concentration

A huge part
of meditation is clearing the mind and creating some space. Meditation helps
improve your concentration and also your attention span. Meditation helps
improve your focus by providing a clearer state of mind. Meditation helps avoid
thoughts and feelings that might obstruct our concentration levels. In fact,
brain activity that causes a reduction in concentration and attention can cause
disorders such as ADD or ADHD.

Slows
down brain ageing

Meditation
helps improve our memory, attention, and other integral brain functions.
Meditation might even fight age-related disorders such as Alzheimer's, etc.

 Help with addiction

Many studies
have shown that meditation can help with addiction. Meditation might increase
self-control as well as reduce withdrawal symptoms. Meditating can help
increase self-image and promote willpower. 

Promotes
positive moods

Meditation
not only reduces stress and other ailments but has also proven to better
self-image and general outlook on life. Various inflammatory chemicals such as
cytokines are responsible for realizing feelings of depression and anxiety in
the body. Studies show that meditating regularly can help reduce the production
of these chemicals in the body.