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  Great Side Effects of Meditation

 

1) You are Calmer and Less Stressed Out!

Stressful events and circumstances have less andless of an effect on your peace of mind andhappiness. You have fewer concerns and fears about

 your future, and you know they will continue tosoften, and eventually disintegrate completely. Theknot of anxiety in your stomach (if you had one

 before) has loosened and is almost or completelygone.

ow and then, you feel yourself tighten up inside when something seems amiss or worrisome ! butthat"s the point# You feel yourself tighten up ! younotice what$s happening in your body# Youexperience it as something you can change. %n fact,

 you seem to be able to loosen up almostimmediately simply by noticing how you"re feelingand deciding to feel differently.

 &  recent study in the &merican 'ournal ofsychology  confirmed what meditators have known for years meditation is an

awesome way to chill-out and de-stress! 

2) Your are Happier and Havea Consistent Sense of  ellein"

 You feel better, eat better, breathe better, move better, and make better choices for your health, ingeneral, throughout your day. You

have more energy, yet it"smodulated and consistent ! unlikethe frenetic bursts of energy youmay have experienced in the past.

 Your body is more at peace. Youexperience *happiness for happiness" sake,* +oy and contentment that don"t depend onouter circumstances but arise from your centre without respect to what"s *really*happening.

recent ground-breaking studies in &ustralia demonstrate this. %n one, researchersarmody and /aer found that sub+ects could indeed increase their overall sense of

happiness and well-ein" throu"h daily meditation.

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 #) You $a%e &etter 'ecisions (aster withConfidence*

 You are $ore +fficient and &etter at $ulti-,as%in"* 

 You have new insight into 0uestions or problems

that used to confuse or overwhelm you. You hearfrom your intuition clearly and often throughout your day. You see more options in any given fieldof choices, even as you are able to identify andselect the best option in less time and with lessmental effort than you use to re0uire. You have anew serenity about the outcomes of yourdecisions.

1avid 2rew recently wrote in The &cademy of3anagement 'ournal that meditators showed increased productivity and

performance in the wor% place* They also reported higher +ob satisfaction andimproved interpersonal relationships and were more likely to be working in higher levelsof organi4ations.

) You are $uch $ore (ocused and LessLi%ely to .et 'istracted* 

 Your ability to concentrate on any given problemand stay with it until you solve has increasedexponentially. %t continues to become stronger

and clearer. You are able to switch almosteffortlessly between life roles and tasks,responding appropriately to diverse situationsand demands with little or no frustration ortransition time.

 & team at the 5niversity of 6ashington teamedup with a neuroscientist at the 5niversity of 

 &ri4ona to prove this. %n a study published in the roceedings of 7raphics %nterface in 3ay of 89, they showed that the mindful-meditation group reported less stress as theyperformed the multitasking test than the non-meditating group, had increased focus

and were more productive with their time*

/) You are $ore Creative and Your 0nner rtist has+mer"ed*

 6ith consistent meditation, you are accessing your right brain which is more open and less limited in it$s thinking. The right brain tends to think in concepts and possibilities, and is notlimited by reason and logic. To the right brain, anything ispossible and it loves to :think out of the box.;

 &dditionally, during meditation, you reach the dream-like statesof alpha and theta. &lbert <instein mentally performed many of

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his scientific experiments in his mind$s eye, whilst in these relaxing mental states. 6hich isprobably why he was famous for saying that :imagination is much more important thanknowledge.;

%n the &pril 89 edition of 2rontiers in ognition, a study revealed that the participants who practiced open-monitoring meditation increased their creative thin%in" to

come up with new ideas easier* 

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) Your &rain is Stron"er and Superior

%n 2ebruary of 89, a fascinating study waspublished in the2rontiers in Cuman euroscience that showed thatpeople who were long-term meditators actually had

physically superior brains. They compared 3D%images of the brain of 988 non-meditators and 988long-term meditators. The meditating group had ahigher level of gyrification (which is a folding of thecerebral cortex that may be associated with fasterinformation processing.)

 &dditionally, it was shown that that, the more years aperson had been meditating, the more gyrificationtheir 3D%s revealed.

So it3s nice to %now that you can chill-out and "et smarter at the same time!  

4) You are $ore 5roductive

 You "et more done in less timeusin" less ener"y - and you en6oythe process! 

 You spend an hour doing what wouldhave re0uired at least two or three

 before you adopted a daily meditationpractice. /est of all, during that hour,

 you find yourself needing to invest onlya fraction of the mental and physicalenergy you would have needed to invest

 before.

This is probably why the corporatehead0uarters at 2acebook  have added a meditation room and why 7oogle has sent over9888 employees to a meditation-training program.

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7) You are Healthier

Degular meditators have been touting themental, physical and spiritual benefits ofmeditation for ages. ow science is actuallytesting out and proving their claims. &

ground breaking study, published in the +ournal irculation= ardiovascular Eualityand Futcomes tested 89 people withcoronary heart disease and found that those

 who took a meditation class had a G@Hreduction in their overall risk of heart attack,stroke and death. %t$s may be an initial study,

 but that$s a pretty impressive figure. &dditionally, the side effects of meditation seem more appealing than some of the riskyones that % have read on medication labels.

 

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 &s you can see, from this impressive list, meditators have greater focus and mental clarity, better memories, learn rapidly and easily, and demonstrate better analytical skills,foresight and +udgment. They are healthier, happy and more productive. Fn everymeasure, they$re :brighter,; in the truest sense of the word.

0n short9 their rains 6ust wor% etter*  Sound fun and appealin"8

There are many places to learn meditation ! it"s a simple techni0ue that can benefit yourlife in so many ways.

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