Meditation offers a variety of benefits, from increased clarity of thought, to reduced stress. Wherever you are and however you’re feeling at the moment, meditation can help you quieten your mind.
Tackling mental health issues at their source
Meditation works very effectively to reduce anxiety, stress, and depression, whilst cultivating joy, and optimism in life. This happens because meditation trains our mind’s ability to quieten itself, and steadily reduces negative thinking patterns. By establishing a daily meditation practice, you can begin the process of rewiring your brain away from negative self-centered thinking.
Effects on physical health
Meditation has also been shown to have significant positive effects on physical health. This includes reduced blood pressure, reduced cortisol (stress hormone) levels. There is even evidence showing that meditation can improve immune function.
Increased attention span and focus
We’re sure everyone has struggled to some degree with a lack of focus or attention, especially when there are so many things in the modern technological world screaming for your attention. Meditation gives you much more power of awareness and attention, allowing you to refocus much more easily.
Productivity boost
Developing a daily meditation practice can have tremendous positive effects on your productivity, since it increases mental focus, allowing you to get on with tasks quickly and efficiently, without your mind wandering.
Age-related cognitive decline
There is promising evidence to show that meditation can even prevent and reverse age-related brain diseases such as dementia. Meditation is the perfect way to train your brain, and to keep it active well into old age.
Spiritual Awakening
At the deeper end of practice, meditation can open you up to experiences of deep spiritual realisation. These include a radically expanded and opened sense of self and world. These experiences can lead to radically reduced levels of suffering in life. This is the deepest and most profound level of benefit someone can get from developing a strong meditation practice.
The Art of Quiet 