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101 Reasons You Should Practice Meditation
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If you think meditation is for gurus, old hippies, and New Agers, think again! Meditation has been shown to increase your happiness, success, and health, and not only that: it’s absolutely free. Meditation doesn’t take very long; just 15 or 20 minutes per day will do the trick. It can be done almost anywhere, requires no special equipment, and has no side effects whatsoever!
You have probably heard all the jokes and myths that surround meditation: you wear long red robes and sit in the lotus position, your mind is “empty” for an hour, you will chant words you don’t understand, and you might even have to take up a new religion. Well, none of those things are true, so you can pitch those silly ideas out the window.
With so much to gain and nothing to lose, you should be asking yourself, “Why not?” Check out the top 101 reasons you should be meditating, today!
1. You will discover the power and consciousness beyond the ego
2. Improves your self-control
3. Greatly improves your social life
4. Lowers oxygen consumption
5. Gives you a deeper level of relaxation
6. Lowers blood pressure
7. Lowers respiration rate
8. Intense physiological benefits
9. Increases the synchronicity in your life
10. Helps you discover the power beyond the ego
11. Feel a sense of oneness
12. Changes your attitude towards life
13. Increase your acceptance of yourself
14. Find a deeper relationship with your higher power
15. Helps you attain enlightenment
16. Helps you learn to forgive
17. Reduces PMS symptoms
18. Helps with chronic diseases such as arthritis and allergies
19. Reduces the level of free radicals in the body
20. Improves post-operative healing
21. Improves energy, vigor, and strength
22. Helps with weight loss efforts
23. Improves the immune system
24. Helps you learn to live in the present
25. Feel an inner sense of assurance
26. Helps you to discover your purpose in life
27. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others
28. Experience a deeper level of spiritual relaxation
29. Feel a harmony of mind, body, and spirit
30. Keeps you real
31. Your mind will be faster and stronger
32. Reduces emotional distress
33. Improves your skin resistance to disease
34. Reduces the activity of viruses
35. Improved relationships at home and work
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36. Helps you see the “big picture” in any given situation
37. Increases emotional stability
38. Helps you develop your intuition
39. Increases your level of productivity
40. Your mind ages at a much slower rate
41. Increase your productivity
42. Increases your feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
43. Makes it easier to change bad habits
44. Increases your feelings of compassion
45. Experience spiritual growth
46. Gives you peace of mind
47. Teaches you to keep things in perspective
48. Provides you with a feeling of happiness, lightness
49. Increased self-actualization
50. Fewer feelings of aggression
51. Higher growth of intelligence
52. Decreases your chances of developing mental illness
53. Encourages more social behavior
54. Increases your capacity of intimate contact with loved ones
55. Teaches you to react more effectively to stressful events
56. Increases your sense of perception
57. Improved motor performance
58. Helps you resolve phobias and childhood fears
59. Increases your creativity
60. Improved focus and concentration
61. Improves your mood and behavior (Find out foods that ruin your good mood)
62. Learn to control your thoughts
63. Improves serotonin levels, making you feel good
64. Lowers cholesterol levels, which lowers cardiovascular disease
65. Reduces your need for medical care
66. Improves your respiration, which leads to easier breathing
67. Slows the aging process
68. Reduces sweating
69. Helps stop chronic headaches and migraines
70. Improves levels of DHEA
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71. Can prevent, control, or slow the pain of chronic diseases
72. Helps with smoking and alcohol cessation efforts
73. Improves job satisfaction
74. Improved communication between the two hemispheres of your brain
75. Teaches you to ignore petty issue and petty people
76. Improves your ability to solve complex problems
77. Teaches and develops your will power
78. Purifies your character
79. Improved memory
80. Increases brain wave coherence
81. Improved learning ability
82. May help stop infertility (the stress of infertility sometimes interferes with hormones that regulate ovulation)
83. Helps you reach your ideal weight
84. Harmonizes the endocrine system
85. Relaxes the nervous system
86. Brings long term beneficial changes in the electrical activity in the brain
87. Improved athletic performance
88. More order in the functioning of the brain
89. Significant relief from asthma
90. You will waste less energy
91. Encourages you to participate in sports or other physical activities
92. Increases exercise tolerance
93. Reduces or eliminates anxiety attacks
94. Decreases muscle tension
95. Reduces the need, as well as the dependency, on drugs, or other pharmaceuticals
96. Less need for sleep
97. Reduces road rage
98. Improved sense of responsibility
99. You will require less time to fall asleep
100. Less restlessness
101. Increased listening skills and empathy for others
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This is a good time to mention that the effects and benefits you can gain from meditation become apparent in relation to the time and effort of your meditation endeavors. In other words, meditating only occasionally will produce few benefits and slow development, while regular meditation, especially if you do so with the guidance of a Zen master (a teacher), will produce most, and even perhaps all of the above benefits, and more.
