7 Reasons Why Meditation is Good For You
🤷🏽♀️ Is Meditation Worth Your Time? 🧘🏽♀️🧘🏼♂️
Science says.. YES!
Meditation helps:
1. Reduce Stress
🧘🏽♀️ By lowering the production of the stress hormone, cortisol.
2. Reduce Symptoms of depression
🧘🏽♀️ By decreasing levels of inflammatory cytokines, which could contribute to depression.
3. Enhance self-awareness of thoughts and habits
🧘🏽♀️ By developing a greater understanding of yourself and how you relate to those around you.
4. Lengthens attention span
🧘🏽♀️ By building your ability to redirect and maintain attention.
5. Fight Addictions
🧘🏽♀️Research has shown that meditation may help people learn to redirect their attention, manage their emotions and impulses.
6. Improves sleep
🧘🏽♀️ By releasing tension and placing you in a peaceful state in which you’re more likely to fall asleep.
7. Lower blood pressure
🧘🏽♀️ Blood pressure decreases not only during meditation but also over time in individuals who meditate regularly. This can reduce strain on the heart and arteries, helping prevent heart disease.
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Experience it yourself! Visit my YouTube channel (Lucia Luminate) to turn on a sound meditation and let me know how you feel afterward. The best part, is it's free!