Guided relaxation, meditation & visualisation… you’ve heard all the terms… but here’s a little secret – they’re all doing the same thing.
Each one allows you to relax, calm your mind and focus your thoughts. By simply including short bursts of guided relaxation into your life, you are opening your life up to the following, scientifically proven benefits…
Mentalfloss process is scientifically proven to help you:-
1. Overcome stress (University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2003)
2. Boost your creativity (ScienceDaily, 2010)
3. Improve your sex life and increase your libido (The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2009)
4. Cultivate healthy habits that lead to weight loss (Journal Emotion, 2007)
5. Improve digestion and lower blood pressure (Harvard Medical School)
6. Decrease your risk of heart attack (The Stroke Journal, 2009)
7. Help overcome anxiety, depression, anger and confusion (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009)
8. Decrease perception of pain and improve cognitive processing (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010)
9. Increase your focus and attention (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007)
10. Increase the size of your most important organ— your brain! (Harvard University Gazette, 2006)
Apart from the above scientific proven benefits meditation – here are 75 more.
Psychological Benefits
- Builds self-confidence
- Increases Serotonin levels
- Resolves phobias and fears
- Helps control own thoughts
- Helps with focus and concentration
- Increases creativity
- Increased brain wave coherence
- Improves learning ability and memory
- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
- Increased emotional stability
- Improves relationships
- Mind ages at a slower rate
- Develops Intuition
- Improves relations at home & work
- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
- Develop will power
- Develops emotional maturity
- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
- Greater tolerance
- Gives composure to act in a considered & constructive way
- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
- Decreased tendency to worry
- Helps make more accurate judgments
- Decrease in restless thinking
- Require less time to fall asleep, beneficial for insomnia
Physiological Benefits
- It lowers oxygen consumption rate
- Decreases respiratory rate
- Increases blood flow and slows the heart
- Increases exercise tolerance
- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
- Good for people with high blood pressure
- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate
- Enhances the immune system
- Helps in chronic diseases such as arthritis, allergies, etc…
- Helps in post-operative healing
- Decreases muscle tension
- Reduces pre-menstrual symptoms
- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowering risk of cardiovascular disease
- Helps with weight loss
- Higher skin resistance
- Improved flow of air to lungs, resulting in easier breathing
- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
- Cure headaches and migraines
- More inclined to sports, activities
- Harmonize your endocrine system
- Reduced need for medical care
- Greater orderliness of brain functioning
- Relaxes the nervous system
- Heals infertility (the stress of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation)
Spiritual Benefits
- Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of mind
- Helps you discover your purpose
- Increased compassion
- Growing wisdom
- Increases self-actualization
- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
- Brings body, mind, and spirit into harmony
- Helps learn forgiveness
- Changes attitude towards life
- Helps one live in the present
- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
- Increases the synchronicity in life
- Allows the experience of ‘One-ness’
- Attain enlightenment
- Increases acceptance of oneself
- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
- Deeper level of spiritual relaxation
- Creates a deeper relationship with God
- Greater inner-directedness
- Allows the inner sense of “Assurance” and “Knowledge”
- Reduces pattern of judgment
- Allows one to ‘let go’
- Opens one to limit-less belief
- Shifts one to being happier with simplicity, nature, and the self