10 Remarkable Ways Meditation Helps Your Mind

 Meditation is about way more than just relaxing. In fact, if I listed the following mental benefits from a new pill or potion, you’d be rightly skeptical. But all these flow from a simple activity which is completely free, involves no expensive equipment, chemicals, apps, books or other products. I’ve also included my own very brief meditation instructions below to get you started. But first, what are all these remarkable benefits?

1. Lasting emotional control

Meditation may make us feel calmer while we’re doing it.

2. Cultivate compassion

Meditation has long been thought to help people be more virtuous and compassionate.

3. Change brain structures

Meditation is such a powerful technique that, after only 8 weeks, the brain’s structure changes.

4. Reduce pain

One of the benefits of changes to the brain’s structure is that regular meditators experience less pain.

5. Accelerate cognition

“…. four days of meditation training can enhance the ability to sustain attention; benefits that have previously been reported with long-term meditators.”

6. Meditate to create

The right type of meditation can help solve some creative problems.

7. Sharpen concentration

At its heart, meditation is all about learning to concentrate, to have greater control over the spotlight of attention.

8. Improve multitasking at work

Meditating managers were better able to stay on task and also experienced less stress as a result.

9. Reduce anxiety

Meditation is an exercise often recommended for those experiencing anxiety.

10. Fight depression

                                                                                                        Posted By Expanded Consciousness