7 Benefits of Practicing Meditation

Hi Everyone!

Today’s blog is about meditation. Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. Healthline states that there are several benefits from meditation, they include: reducing stress, controlling anxiety, promoting emotional health, enhancing self-awareness, lengthening attention span, improving sleep, and decreasing blood pressure. I didn’t even list them all out and look how beneficial it can be for you!

I learned about meditation in high school but really began to use it in my daily life in my junior year of college. I was taking a stress management and yoga course at the same time. Being reminded of this practice couldn’t have come at a better time. I was extremely overwhelmed with everything that was going on in my life. I was working a ton of hours, going to school full time, and had recently went through a terrible breakup. I was having a really hard time turning my brain off at night. Which was really making my energy levels almost nonexistent from lack of sleep.

I learned by doing something as simple as focusing on your breath while you are laying in bed, can be considered meditating. I began doing this and whenever a terrible thought would creep into my mind, I would go back to focusing on my breath. I won’t say that it was easy but eventually I was back to sleeping through the nights.

You can start with something simple like using the breath app on your apple watch. If you don’t have an apple watch you can set a timer for 60 seconds and take deep breaths in and out for that time. It is amazing what a simple minute of meditating can do for you!

I have attached a YouTube video below of a guided meditation that is for beginners so you can learn how to meditate if it is foreign to you!

https://youtu.be/MCYM1VtVb3A

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Let me know in the comments below!

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