3 Reasons Why Professionals Recommend Meditation

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3 Reasons Why Professionals Recommend Meditation

It’s no longer a secret that meditation produces multiple health benefits in people’s lives. This, along with the ripple effect that occurs from adopting this practice, has caused more and more people to start meditating.

Since the late 1960’s when meditation became popularized in the Western world, techniques have been refined, studios have been opened and new methods better-suited for the West have been developed, making spirituality more accessible.

But that’s not all, also contributing to meditation’s rise in popularity are the many professionals, from doctors and scientists to sports champions and university tutors, recommending this practice.

Let’s take a look at why so many people are suggesting meditation.

#1 Meditation Reduces Stress

 When people first look into meditation, they’re often looking for an “escape.” People can attempt to escape less favorable realities in many different ways. Some turn to drugs and alcohol, while others turn to sports, exercising and fitness. However, meditation isn’t an escape—it’s more of a purifying cleanse.

 Meditation can reduce anxiety and stress when practiced regularly. In today’s modern society, we’re all constantly being marketed to and distracted by social media or the news. It can be hard to get away. Meditation offers a peaceful space that you can enter within, to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of the digital age.

Getting to that peaceful space, though, can be a challenge. Guided meditation is a great way to help you. There are countless YouTube channels designed specifically for this, but if you’re going to use technology to help you, consider taking steps to protect yourself from unwanted activity and distractions. Remember, experts recommend meditation for stress relief because it allows you to step away from the stresses of your daily life. Staying connected while you meditate will prevent you from doing this and will limit the benefits of meditation.

#2 Meditation Raises Conscious Awareness

 Meditation helps us to increase our conscious awareness of our internal and external activity. By helping you become more in tune with your thoughts and internal dialogue, meditation allows you to notice when you’re damaging your spirits with negative thoughts and processes. For this reason, therapists, coaches and other professionals recommend meditation as a way to stay focused on goals and committed to improvement. 

Since all actions and results are born out of thoughts, it’s essential that we develop a better conscious awareness of our inner world. Only then can we begin to transform our external results. Meditation helps us to lay a healthy, positive foundation from which we build our lives. Without practicing meditation frequently, we quickly fall into unconscious thinking patterns that are easily manipulated and influenced by the world around us. 

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Techniques such as “mindfulness” help with anxiety and stress issues, and there is factual evidence showing mindfulness as being more effective and healthier for pain sufferers than the ingestion of painkillers. Other popular meditation methods, such as Transcendental Meditation, also offer great stress reduction and interconnectivity.

#3 Meditation Helps Improve Relationships 

When we practice meditation regularly, we begin to develop more compassion and patience for all others and ourselves too. The Dalai Lama preaches one strong message: show compassion towards everything and everyone in this universe. Practicing meditation on a daily basis can help develop this.

As we heighten our conscious awareness through meditation, we learn to “think before we speak,” making our thoughts and actions less aggressive and reactionary. Because of this, we find our communication with others is more positive, and the bond between others and ourselves becomes stronger and more meaningful. 

Meditation opens up our capacity to show love and respect to our fellow humans and nature. Patience and focus are skills that must be developed, and the best way to achieve that is through meditation. You may find it difficult when you first start meditating to focus, concentrate and prevent distractions from pulling you out of a tranquil, peaceful state of mind. Alternatively, you may remember when this used to happen to you when you first began your meditative practice. 

Distractions are not to be fought, though, but rather they are to be observed and watched until they disappear of their own accord. If you try to fight them, your patience and focus will let you down. Meditation is the act of allowing everything to be just as it is. In doing so, everything transcends. 

Being able to let go and forgive others can have tremendous health benefits. Meditation teaches this and helps you develop a more caring attitude, making it a tool recommended by many for improving overall well-being.

Conclusion 

Overall, through using meditation, we allow ourselves to disconnect from the busy hustle and bustle of modern society, we develop a better conscious awareness of our mind activity and we also learn patience, focus, and compassion. 

Meditation should be practiced daily, and it’s recommended that you aim for 20-minute sessions. This may not be doable at the beginning of your journey with meditation, but use it as a target, and over time you’ll find it easier to meditate for longer periods. Also, if you find that you don’t have 20 minutes to spare, simply use the time you do have, as some meditation is better than none at all. 

Remember, if you’re new to meditation and are finding it hard to deal with distractions, they are a part of the practice. Distractions will lessen over time, as your mind and awareness learn to let them be until they dissolve. Simply become a non-judgmental observer of your mind activity, and you’ll soon find that it empties and fills you with a sense of peacefulness and calm.

This is what the experts and professionals are saying. Now it’s time for you to give meditation a try and experience the transformative powers it can have.

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1 COMMENT

  1. Hi, Cassie!

    Meditation and yoga are considered stress-busting practices, but I hope that more people realize that they have a lot of health and wellness benefits as well.

    I’d like to highlight your third point about improving relationships. Others may consider It as a secondary benefit but personally, I experienced its great impact when I started meditating. My patience in dealing with people really improved.

    Thanks for sharing!

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