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Get Relief From Stress And Anxiety: Part 3 Of A Series On The Benefits Of Meditation
In the first two parts of this series, we discussed the effects of meditation on mental and physical health. Today we will look at the benefits of daily meditation on such things as stress and anxiety. Definitely one of 
the emotional health activities that should be practiced is meditation. Another name for this heard today is mindfulness. Once you learn how to meditate and begin a regular practice you will definitely experience many benefits. It has been proven that emotional health, as one of the paybacks of your efforts, is one of the most important aspects of a fully rounded individual and a happy life.
Meditation can be an easy and simple method of controlling many of the negative issues in your life as long as you practice it regularly, daily that is. A few minutes, a day set aside will make a noticeable difference in helping you to manage the negative effects of anxiety, stress, and even your cardiovascular well being.
Mediation is not new. It has been around almost since the dawn of time. Ancient Egyptian and Aravaedic cultures have used it going back millennia.
Stress Relief Benefits Of Daily Meditation
When you are faced with a stressful issue in your life you tend to go into a fight or flight mode. Your body responds almost immediately by pushing more adrenaline through your system. When this happens your pulse rate and blood pressure will increase. You will also experience an increase in the frequency of your breathing. , faster breathing, and increased blood flow to the muscles. If you are exposed to this kind of environment regularly the stress response that this creates can put undue stress on both your heart and mental states both.
The Purpose Of Meditation
How meditation works. When entering a state of relaxation, a meditative state that is, just the opposite occurs. Your breath is controlled. This, in turn, reduces your blood pressure. This is a much healthier state for your body and mind. As you grow in your meditation practice your emotional and physical states grow along with it. Your emotional body especially can handle much more with ease and grace. This type of stress reduction can really add to the quality of life not to mention your longevity.
There are benefits of guided meditation. As you begin your meditation practice you may find it difficult to focus. It is an unusual state for the average individual. Because of this, I have recorded a free guided meditation, especially which you can access below. This will let you relax totally while enjoying a get-away from life’s challenges.
Free Guided Meditation
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The World Health Organization says “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” There is much empirical evidence that supports the fact of all the emotional benefits of mindfulness.
Benefits Of Daily Meditation And Stress Research
There are many scientifically proven benefits of meditation. Research also backs the concept that a 
Mindfulness Meditation practice decreases emotional reactivity. With regards to the health benefits of meditation what the newest research shows, in a study of people who have created a mindfulness meditation practice, researchers found that mindfulness meditation practice helped people immensely. They discovered that they would disengage from emotionally upsetting pictures and enabled. This would allow them to focus better on tasks than those who did the same things but did not meditate (Ortner et al., 2007).
Here are some more emotional well-being examples:
- Relationship satisfaction.
- Reduced rumination (overthinking or thinking, at length about something).
- Stress reduction.
- Boosts to working memory capacity.
- More cognitive flexibility.
- Empathy.
Some of the other benefits of a Mindfulness practice have been shown to have a positive effect on self-insight, morality, intuition, and fear modulation, all roles related to the brain’s middle prefrontal lobe area.
All in all, it is quite evident that meditation has a positive effect on enhancing your quality of life. It will help you become more; happier, not as stressed, better boundaries, less fear & anxiety, resilient to change, can regulate emotions, improved relationships, compassion & empathy, reduced cortisol response, employs self-awareness & emotional centers of the brain.
It’s still an open question of whether or how meditation helps people to deconstruct the self and be mindful of sensations in the present moment, but we have some hints.
Those receiving mindfulness training:
- Showed improved efficiency in their ability to pay attention
- Reduced reports of negative emotion
- Increased reports of positive affect
- no improvement in general intelligence.
- increased activity for many (but not all) of the interceptive network regions and control network regions.
In this podcast, you will learn:
- Ways to improve emotional health.
- How to practice mindfulness for beginners
- Why is emotional health important?
Join us on this episode of Unlocking Your Truth, Stress Relief Benefits Of Daily Meditation!, we discuss the importance of meditation with regards to many aspects of emotional health and exactly how science has deemed that meditation is one way how to improve it.
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