Why Should You Meditate?

I have been meditating for some time, and I can veritably accept that it has helped me in making my life better. Nor I am a saint; neither have I experienced any enlightenment kind of thing. But meditation has genuinely changed my life.

Now you must be thinking that how meditation can change one’s life or what changes have occurred in my life because of meditation? I want to tell you that I have learned to be more mindful and thoughtful through this. I can feel a kind of calmness in my mind and a kind of energy to control my anger and emotions in a better way.

As meditation has played a role of life-changer in my life, I want to share my thoughts on why you should meditate. I will do this in the form of answering some common questions about it. So, here is the first question that will come to everyone’s mind:

Q1. Why Should You Meditate?

More than thousands of studies and researches have proved that meditation has some great positive effects on anyone who practices it. Below are the 5 reasons you should meditate:

1. You can gain inner peace and an absolute calmness in your mind,
2. It can help in increasing your self-awareness
3. It can help you in increasing your consciousness
4. It can increase your productivity
5. It can decrease unnecessary stress

After reading the above reasons, you must be excited to know more about meditation. So here is the answer to the next question that must be coming in your mind.

 Q2. What Are the Benefits of Practising Meditation?

I will stay away with the generic points, and will disclose some great benefits of meditation on the basis of various scientific studies and researches done on it all around the world.

It has the following benefits:

1. Meditation Helps Preserving the Aging of Your Brain:

A few times ago, a study from UCLA revealed that people who do regular meditation have a better capability of preserving brains than the people who do not meditate as they aged.

Source: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full

2.  Meditation Reduces Activity in the Brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN):

Yale University carried out a very interesting study a few years ago and reached the result that mindfulness meditation decreases activity in the DMN, which is a brain network that becomes active when we think about any particular thing.

Source: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/50/20254.short

3. Meditation Helps in Getting Rid of Addictions:

It has been found from various studies and researches that meditation has a direct effect on the self-control area of the brain, and thus it helps greatly in getting rid of any addiction that you do not want in your life.

Sources: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/34/13971.short

4. Short Meditation Breaks Benefits Developing Brains of Kids:

It has been found that the benefits of meditation on the developing brains of kids have a greater impact than it has on matured brains of adults. May be this is the reason why meditation and yoga have been accepted and are being practiced on a daily basis in many schools of all around the world.

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00215.x/full

There are many more benefits of meditation revealed by various scientific studies, and a lot of scientific studies and researched are still being done on meditation.

Now the next question that must be coming to your mind is how you can do meditation. Well, you can find many articles on the web that will teach you about it. I have something unique and effective for you. So, here is the answer to your next question, which must be something like this -

Q3. What are the easy and effective ways to start meditation?

So, after reading all the above points about meditation if you are thinking to practice meditation, then I must tell you that meditation is not hard to practice. But like anything new, it takes some time to be habituated of something of which you are not used to.

So, here are some ways by which you can start your meditation easily and effectively:

1. Choose a Good Place: Find a place which is quiet, safe and comfy. Also, you can practice meditation on a chair, couch, floor or anywhere you feel comfortable.

2. Start Slow & Steady: You don’t need to sit out for hours from the start. Give some minutes say 4 or 5 minutes in the starting phase, and be consistent. You can increase your time after few days when you become habitual of making out time on a daily basis for the same.

3. WFS: Wake-up, freshen-up and start! This is the secret tip which always works. Get up in the morning, freshen up yourself and start practising meditation with a fresh mind and mood. Doing meditation in the morning time with a brisk mood has the maximum effects.

4. Don’t change your time & place: Many people start meditation but they couldn’t able to continue on a daily basis. This is because they do not schedule a particular time and a fixed place.

Whether you take out time to practice meditation in the morning or at the night, fix that time for daily and do not change your time.

In the same way, if you are comfortable to do meditation in a particular place, then do not change your place frequently.

Conclusion:

If you make meditation a daily habit, and can do it properly, it can change your life positively. You can gain a level of calmness, mindfulness, thoughtfulness and self-control. So, It is highly suggested to practice meditation on a daily basis.