Among its many benefits, meditation reduces stress. Think of your brain as a computer, simultaneously keeping many windows and programs going. Meditation helps you close out the unnecessary windows so you can focus on what’s essential. When you do less with more, you enjoy life more and perform at a higher level.
Stress relief might be the most-studied benefit, but meditation also has been found to help reduce addictions, relieve anxiety, and boost immunity.
There are so many forms of meditation and mindfulness. You have to find what works for you. There’s breathwork, mantras, guided meditations, walking meditation, and even coloring or painting can be forms of meditation.
Right now, we’re living in a particularly stressful time. If we don’t take time to pause, put away our devices, and tune inward, we’re missing out on whole body healing.
Here’s a simple practice that you can incorporate a few times a day, and it only takes minutes.
- Sit straight in a comfortable place with less noise and disturbances.
- Close your eyes and mouth.
- Breath in slowly on count of 5 seconds, Hold it for 5 seconds and exhale through mouth for 5 seconds.
- Repeat as per your comfort.
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