Benefits of Meditation

• Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh clearly indicates, “Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”
• Learning meditation means discovering a world in which we can help remove the negativity. We replace it with positive thoughts and actions. It's possible, through meditation, to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual changes that enrich us, and all with whom we come into contact.

• There are so many advantages to meditation. 

Mental (Psychological) Benefits of Meditation:

• Improves rapid memory recall
• Increases grey matter concentration in the brain
• Builds self-confidence.
• Increased brain wave coherence.
• Acutely improves psychomotor vigilance, and may decrease sleep need
• Improved learning ability and memory.
• Increased ability to solve complex problems

• Helps control own thoughts
• Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behavior.
• Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
• Helps manage ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
• Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
• Improves your focus, attention, and ability to work under stress

• Develop will power
• Helps make more accurate judgments
• Resolve phobias & fears
• Improves information processing and decision-making
• Increased Productivity

• Greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
• React more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
• Higher intelligence growth rate

• Decrease in restless thinking
• Increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
• Decrease in potential mental illness
• Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
• Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
• Increases sense of responsibility
• Increases the ability to keep focus in spite of distractions
• Increases listening skills and empathy

Physiological Benefits of Meditation:

• Reduces risk of heart diseases and stroke
• Increases exercise tolerance.
• It lowers oxygen consumption.
• It decreases respiratory rate.
• Relieves pain better than morphine
• Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
• Reduces risk of Alzheimer’s and premature death
• It affects genes that control stress and immunity
• Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
• Decreases cellular-level inflammation
• It may even help treat HIV
• Decreases muscle tension
• Helps with weight loss
• Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
• Good for people with high blood pressure.
• Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
• Harmonizes our endocrine system
• Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
• Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
• Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
• It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
• Decreases inflammatory disorders
• Helps in post-operative healing.
• Enhances the immune system.
• Relaxes our nervous system
• Helpful for patients diagnosed with Fibromyalgia
• Decreases the aging process.
• Higher skin resistance
• Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
• Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
• Cure headaches & migraines
• It helps prevent asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease
• Produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
• Helps in building sexual energy & desire
• Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation). 

Spiritual Benefits of Meditation:

• Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
• Increases feelings of compassion and decreases worry
• Growing wisdom
• Provides peace of mind, happiness
• Helps learn forgiveness
• Loving-kindness meditation improves empathy and positive relationships

• Experience a sense of “Oneness”
• Helps you discover your purpose
• Decreases feelings of loneliness
• Increased self-actualization.
• Helps keep things in perspective
• Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
• Deeper understanding of yourself and others

• Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
• Changes attitude toward life
• Creates a deeper relationship with your God
• Attain enlightenment
• Helps living in the present moment