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There are many benefits of Meditation, it has a real life-changing impact on our body, meditation offers many incredible benefits to the practitioner. It reduces muscle soreness and increases sleep quality, if want How can you take advantage of this then keep with me.
The toll of stress
According to the international labor organization, approximately a third of the working people in developed countries
and highly promotion of newly industrialized Nations suffer from stress-related diseases due to workload.
Wherever you live or whatever you do for a living, It is important to understand that many stress-related problems can affect you badly.
If you feel frustrated or low energy level or always remain nerves, you are not managing your stress properly.
This type of unmanaged perceived stress can increase your depression or anxiety,
As well as medical disorders such as Asthma, heart disease, blood pressure-related problems.
Although unmanaged stress is one of the factors to health-related issues.
But actually, there is some type of stress which is good for us, that is positive stress. This positive stress is really important in our lives,
You can have stress on your wedding days, or when your child is born, Riding a rollercoaster is can be horrible for you if you are above 50,
But it is good stress, if you are 16 years old, some stress is good or some are bad, it depends on you how you handle your stress in life.
Many people thought that life would be easy if they can eliminate their stress completely from their life,
But according to many neuroscientists, stress is really important in our lives. we actually need some stress in life to keep our brain healthy and happy.
Suppose you are on an island with nothing to do, you get bored and it will make you crazy, if life would not be challenging then it feels emptiness.
The critical issues are our perception of the stress or challenge, In our lives.
Which decide how we manage our stress in life, only unmanaged stress can affect us badly In life.
And what yoga and meditation do, it change our perception of stress and provides the ability to manage stress or cope with it.
Additionally, this provides you a skill that allows you to effectively manage more stress, so you can take challenges in life.
If you are searching for something which keeps you stress-free then yoga and meditation are one of the best antidotes to the stress of modern living.
Although people who practice yoga and meditation tend to look younger than their actual age,
One of the classic early studied on yoga practice demonstrated that yoga could affect the internal physiological and psychological state.
This study was conducted in the fifties, by a pair of US researchers of Indian descent, who traveled all over India to find and investigate, Expert yoga masters.
these scientists found that Yogis heart rate slowed during yogic meditation, and they had acquired a skill to control the autonomic nervous system.
Participants in the stress response and is responsible for controlling the activity of the heart and circulatory system, digestive system, and reproductive system.
The relaxation response
When we perceive threats to our physical or psychological well being, our mind and body usually initiate coordinate stress or fight or flight response.
This leads to the activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the so-called adrenaline and cortisol.
This stress put our body in highly alert mode and we become aware of the world, this type of stress also helped our ancestors to become aware of the dangerous situation.
A simple meditation to relieve stress
Sit in a comfortable position, keep your spine straight, choose some Mantra or you can focus on your breath.
While meditating if you get distracted by thoughts, try again to make your focus on the breath.
But don’t force your self to do, keep it natural and also don’t force your self to stay focus, it will automatically happen after some time.
I guarantee you if you do meditation daily, it will change your perception about life.
According to a study, which held on some students who are suffering from stress-related issues.
They are practicing meditation for 25 minutes, every day and after two weeks, reachers found a 60% decrease in the level of stress.
How meditation work
Scientists at the university of southern California brain and creativity institutes are now studying, How technology including email, television, video games, etc affect our brain activity.
Although this activity can be fun and relaxing, the problem is that we are overexposed to information like death, destruction, global suffering, crime, etc which are changing our perception and morality.
It also affects our ability to absorb information, it seems that the more we know and faster we know it, the less we care.
But the good news is that meditation act as a valuable time out, which allows our overloaded and overstimulate brain to take a break.
When you meditate, you take your focus on particular things with a non-analytic, non-judgemental manner.
Actually, this is really the opposite when we are not engaged in any specific task. our brain activity that is in default mode gets changed and we get aware.
A recent study suggested a direct relationship between emotional activity and default mode activity When you focus or create your full attention to something in a meditation state.
your default mode starts decreasing and you react where you have full control over your consciousness. And you experience less mind wondering.
Why mediate
There are many reasons why meditation Practice good for us, those who practice yoga and meditation frequently develop the ability to manage stress effectively.
Again it not about eliminating stress, which is impossible, we don’t have to avoid stress and shrink from challenges of life, rather we can improve our stress managing ability.
Where to mediate
Meditation doesn’t need any particular place instead we can do it anywhere we want, there is no rule of sitting, you can do this while standing as well, when you practice meditation your level of stress drops.
Meditation for sleep
The best time to practice “kriya“(meditation) is before bed, but it can be done any time, it is said that if we practice regularly it will increase our sleep quality.
After some time the rhythm of your breath will subconsciously match the rhythm of your sleep breath.
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