Meditation And Its Benefits You Must Know

Meditation is not considered a 'cool thing' to do among the youngsters, especially teenagers. What they want to do is just sweat out in the gym rather than meditating at home or somewhere peaceful. What youngsters fail to understand is that meditation is for everyone and not only will it make your mind more calm and cool it will also help you in your workout.

For centuries, meditation has been used as an effective technique to work with the mind, and also to provide relaxation, well-being and better health. Let's look at some of the benefits of meditation which might help the millennials change their outlook towards meditation.

1. Reduces Stress

It's the topmost reason for people taking up meditation as an activity in their daily lifestyle.
mental and physical stress cause increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol. This produces many of the harmful effects of stress, such as the release of inflammation-promoting chemicals called cytokines.

These effects are disastrous and can disrupt sleep, promote depression and anxiety. Meditation helps in attaining normal levels of coristol, which in turn, helps in releasing stress and anxiety.

2.Increased immunity

Studies in different institutes and research organizations across the globe have seen a more healthy immune system in people who meditate regularly. Count of WBC, which makes your immune system strong, is found to be more in meditators.

3. Sleep

Meditation practice helps the body learn to relax and also trains the mind to settle the attention on an object such as the breath and allow other thoughts and emotions to go by. Being skilled in meditation might help you remove attention from thoughts which are causing insomnia. When you are tension free and not focusing on negative aspects of your life then surely you are going to have a good night's sleep.

4. Help you deal with addictions

The mental discipline you can develop through meditation may help you break dependencies by increasing your self-control and awareness of triggers for addictive behaviors. Research has shown that meditation may help people learn to redirect their attention, increase their willpower, control their emotions and impulses and increase their understanding of the causes behind their addictive behaviors