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Take a deep breath, breathe out, and relax. How hard can it be? The world will be a more peaceful and relaxed environment if people are not stressed. If only all people learn to practice meditation, there will be inner peace and calmness for everyone to share.
Meditation is free, simple, and can be done anywhere. Meditation can be practiced whenever and wherever. Meditation is an effective technique for the mind, body, and soul. Over the years, the benefits of meditation to physical health and well-being are tremendous.
Here are the major health benefits of practicing meditation in our daily lives:
Meditation improves stress, depression, and anxiety management
Meditation helps in calming the mind and preventing strong emotions from uncontrollably occurring. The natural equilibrium of the nervous system is disrupted by stress and it initiates a “flight or fight” response. When this happens, the body is flooded with a number of harmful chemicals like cortisol. But through meditation, powerful relaxation response releases counteractive chemicals like melatonin, serotonin, endorphins, and others to negate the effects of stress and brings back the body in a state of balance.
Meditation is anti-inflammatory
Stress leads to inflammation. With inflammation, there is a risk for arthritis, heart disease, asthma, and skin condition like psoriasis. A study tells that through meditation, proinflammatory processes are reduced. Cell-mediated defense parameters and enzyme activity that guards against cell aging are increased as well.
Meditation improves happiness and general wellbeing
A University of Utah study shows that “mindfulness may be linked to self-regulation throughout the day, and that this may be an important way that mindfulness contributes to better emotional and physical well-being.”
Meditation helps lower blood pressure and heart disease risk
Meditation is a mind-calming practice that may reduce reg risk of heart diseases, according to the Journal of the American Heart Association. Studies also suggest that meditation improves high blood pressure and may even help people to stop smoking. Talk about hitting two birds with one stone.
Meditation promotes better sleep
Meditation is a deep relaxation technique that is shown to increase sleep time, make it easier to fall and stay asleep, and improve your quality of sleep. Meditation can even eradicate insomnia, which is one of the major cause of sleepless nights in many people.
Meditation relieves the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
IBS is a bowel disorder that is characterized by bloating, cramps, abdominal pain, and altered bowel behavior. According to The American Journal of Gastroenterology, practicing meditation over a period of 8 weeks immediately reduced the IBS severity in women.
Meditation helps us connect with our true qualities. By learning to accept and work with our thoughts, we are presented with a loving capacity that is innately within us. Much like upper cervical chiropractic, meditation increases happiness and enhances health and wellbeing. Purity Chiropractic offers upper cervical chiropractic adjustments aimed at restoring the body’s natural ability to self-heal for its optimal health and function. Get the meditation and upper cervical chiropractic care combo now for the best life you can ever live.
