Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness is an effective mental health practice for helping people improve their physical and psychological well-being. Mindfulness is defined as the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something. It can also be defined as a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. Here are the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation:
Mindfulness can decrease stress.
Mindfulness can help lessen stress by improving emotion regulation. This leads to a better mood and better ability to handle stress. The symptoms of stress can include:
Constantly feeling anxious and worried
Feeling irritable, agitated and easily annoyed
Argumentative and defensive with friends and family
Restless sleeping
Low levels of energy, often waking up feeling tired
Restless mind
Often self-critical and/or critical of others
Feeling flat and uninspired
Skin rashes and conditions
Clenching your jaw muscles and grinding your teeth at night
Having headaches and migraines
Mindfulness can enhance your ability to deal with illness.
Mindfulness may not take away the symptoms of an illness, but it can help make them more manageable. Alongside talking with your health practitioner, mindfulness can be a great tool.
Mindfulness can aid in your recovery.
It can help you deal with a chronic or potentially terminal illness or life-threatening event, but it can also help you move forward with it.
Mindfulness may help reduce psychological pain.
It has been found to decrease depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress. Overall it can help these symptoms become manageable and less scary. Feelings that may become too big for us may now become right sized.
Mindfulness can improve physical health.
It can help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic paint, improve sleep and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.
A simple google search can provide you with many benefits of mindfulness meditation. Positive Psychology has an extensive list with many insights. We encourage you to give Mindfulness Meditation a try!
